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April 14, 2023 | Purdue Today

Birck expo teaches high school students about nanotechnology

Fifty students from Lafayette Jefferson High School attended Birck Nanotechnology Center’s Nano Expo 2023 on Friday (April 14). The Nano Expo is an immersive, hands-on experience where high school students can discover how nanotechnology is used and learn about the many career opportunities in the field available in Indiana.

March 8, 2023 | Purdue University College of Engineering News

ECE professors Boltasseva, Weiner honored by Optica

Two professors in Purdue’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been honored by Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America. Alexandra Boltasseva has been named the R.W. Wood Prize recipient, and Andrew Weiner has been awarded the Charles Hard Townes Medal.

December 21, 2022 | Purdue Office of Research News

Chen named director of Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center

Recognized worldwide for two decades of excellence in nanotechnology research, Zhihong Chen has been named the Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center after serving one year as the center’s interim director. Her directorship becomes effective Jan. 1.

October 23, 2022 | The Washington Post

Economic future of U.S. depends on making engineering cool

Purdue University races to expand semiconductor education to fill yawning workforce gap that threatens reshoring effort.

September 13, 2022 | Purdue News

Secretaries of State, Commerce discuss efforts to build a US microelectronics ecosystem

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo visited Purdue University on Tuesday (Sept. 13) to tour university research facilities and meet students as they embark on their mission to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry.

August 30, 2022 | Scientific Reports

Intensity instability and correlation in amplified multimode wave mixing

The dynamics of optical nonlinearity in the presence of gain and feedback can be complex leading to chaos in certain regimes. Temporal, spectral, spatial, or polarization instability of optical fields can emerge from chaotic response of an optical ?(2) or ?(3) nonlinear medium placed between two cavity mirrors or before a single feedback mirror. The complex mode dynamics, high-order correlations, and transition to instability in these systems are not well known.

July 20, 2022 | Purdue Research Foundation News

SkyWater Technology chooses Discovery Park District at Purdue for $1.8B semiconductor fabrication facility, to create 750 jobs in 5 years

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The announcement Wednesday (July 20) by SkyWater Technology that it plans to open a $1.8 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility in Discovery Park District at Purdue University marks a huge step forward for the American semiconductor industry, Purdue’s thriving innovation district and the university’s continued emergence as one of the principal drivers of the Indiana economy.

April 13, 2022 | Purdue News

Boltasseva receives prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

A professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Alexandra Boltasseva, the Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is among a diverse group of the 180 honorees in the 2022 class, which was chosen from a pool of nearly 2,500 applicants. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

April 12, 2022 | Purdue University College of Engineering News

Purdue ECE research could lead to more secure quantum communication devices

Research being done in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering could lead to more efficient and secure quantum communication devices. A paper entitled “Long-range Cooperative Resonances in Rare-Earth Ion Arrays inside Photonic Resonators,” published in the journal Communications Physics, explores a new paradigm for enhanced light-mater interactions in solids.

March 11, 2022 | Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

Anyons Found! Best Evidence Yet for these Long-Sought Quasi-Particles

The Science Unlike subatomic particles, quasiparticles are not actually particles. Instead, they are a concept that helps scientists describe the patterns that emerge when subatomic particles interact in huge numbers. Scientists originally believed that quasiparticles only came in two flavors: fermions and bosons.