March 4, 2026 | Purdue University News
Manfra appointed Purdue’s chief quantum officer
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February 20, 2026 | Purdue College of Engineering
Purdue researchers invent wireless sensor to assess subsoil health in effort to cut costs and refine farming
February 20, 2026 | Purdue Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The ticket to 6G: Purdue engineers develop tunable filter technology for future 5G and 6G wireless systems
January 20, 2026 | Purdue University News
Purdue deepens semiconductor, chips processing ties with Dassault Systèmes in virtual twin initiative
Purdue has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Dassault Systèmes to establish a new lab to develop virtual twin technologies for semiconductor processing and testing at Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center. The MOU marks a significant step toward developing the first virtual twin-enabled semiconductor research and education platform.
January 5, 2026 | Purdue Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue ECE’s Alexandra Boltasseva featured in Global Quantum 100 List
Congratulations to Alexandra Boltasseva on her feature in the Quantum 100 list, a global list recognizing people who are helping advance quantum research, innovation, education and community building.
November 24, 2025 | College of Engineering - News
Single-photon switch could enable photonic computing
Researchers at Purdue University have achieved a long-sought milestone, demonstrating what they call a “photonic transistor” that operates at single-photon intensities.
November 7, 2025 | Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michael Manfra receives 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize
Michael Manfra, the Bill and Dee O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded the American Physical Society’s 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, which recognizes outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics.
October 24, 2025 | Purdue Newswroom
Purdue’s innovative semiconductor research powers future impact of Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue’s innovative investment 20 years ago into a research facility for the emerging science of nanotechnology has led to the university being one of the world’s leaders in semiconductor and microelectronics research today — and into the future.
October 7, 2025 | Purdue College of Engineering
Birck Nanotechnology Center: 20th anniversary
Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field today, but it was still in its nascent stage 20 years ago when the Birck Nanotechnology Center was launched on October 8, 2005. Defined as the manipulation of matter at the nano scale, nanotechnology has burgeoned into a thriving domain, where the unique phenomena exhibited at its scale of between 1 and 100 nanometers have given rise to a host of applications across numerous economic sectors, particularly semiconductors, with the constant push to pack
August 19, 2025 | Purdue Engineering
Chipshub wins NSF award for Chip Design Hub to help ease urgent national semiconductor workforce shortage
Addressing a crucial national need and marking a major advance for Purdue University’s semiconductor leadership, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Purdue Engineering-led Chipshub as its Chip Design Hub.