September 28, 2012

The research team develops cost-effective, portable wide-spectrum infrared detection using graphene

Any object with a temperature above absolute zero emits infrared (IR) radiation, and the ability to detect IR light has profoundly expanded visual capabilities, allowing people to see at night and machines to sense motion. Just as visible light can be picked up by the sensor pixels of a common digital camera made from silicon, infrared radiation can be detected by the sensor pixels of an IR camera using a special material. The wavelength information can then be processed to produce a visual ...read more

September 6, 2012

Optical frequency combs provide the next step toward the realization of quantum computers

Controlling the quantum-mechanical properties of microscopic particles is essential to the establishment of quantum computing, an extremely fast and powerful technology that would use the quantum state of atoms and molecules to store information rather than the electrical switches currently used in computers. Because a quantum bit is susceptible to environmental factors such as heat, researchers are developing control methods at temperatures approaching absolute zero. ...read more

July 25, 2012

Dr. Svetlana Malinovskaya

Dr. Svetlana Malinovskaya, Associate Professor in the Physics Department at Stevens Institute of Technology, was elected as Chair of the Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Community (TAMOC). As chair, Dr. Malinovskaya will coordinate the activities of TAMOC, including the organization’s website, annual meetings, and outreach events.

Nominated to the position by Dr. Pierre Meystre, Profess ...read more

May 31, 2012

Dr. Malinovskaya leads a Colloquium at the University of Nevada, Reno

Dr. Svetlana Malinovskaya of the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics recently presented a Physics Colloquium at University of Nevada, Reno, where she assessed the latest developments in the q ...read more

March 6, 2012

His work is the most cited in the 50-year history of the influential journal Applied Optics

Professor Knut Stamnes of the Stevens Institute of Technology Department of Physics and Engineering Physics is renowned for simplifying the process now used to remotely sense the particles in the atmosphere, the microbiological constituents of the ocean, and the compos ...read more