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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.

March 8, 2022 | Oxford Instruments

Dr James Nakamura, Purdue University, winner of the 2022 Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize!

Congratulations to Dr James Nakamura of Purdue University, winner of the 2022 Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize. Dr. Nakamura comments: “It is an honour to receive the Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize for 2022. The Prize will enable my group’s research to continue, including investigating other fractions where effective charge and fractional statistics diverge.

February 2, 2022 | Purdue University College of Engineering News

Prof. Mahdi Hosseini receives NSF CAREER Award

Mahdi Hosseini, assistant professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. These prestigious awards are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions.

November 19, 2021

Chen to present 2021 Herbert Newby McCoy Lecture on making quantum matter

Yong Chen, the Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of Physics and Astronomy, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, will give the 2021 Herbert Newby McCoy Distinguished Lecture at 9 a.m. ET Friday (Nov. 19). The lecture will be livestreamed.

November 15, 2021

Scientists reverse pancreatic cancer progression in ‘time machine’ made of human cells

Bumsoo Han, professor of mechanical engineering, has built a realistic model of a pancreatic structure that acts as a “time machine” to understand cancer and reverse its spread. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood)

November 12, 2021

Purdue University Distinguished Research Award Lecture Series

Please join us for the Arden L. Bement Jr. Distinguished Lecture virtual event livestreamed here Friday, November 12 at 3:00 p.m. (ET). Congratulations to the 2021 awardee, Michael Manfra, Bill and Dee O’Brian Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Materials Engineering,…

October 21, 2021

Edgy light on graphene may bring new one-way information routers

Researchers at Purdue University (Todd Van Mechelen, Wenbo Sun and Zubin Jacob) have shown that graphene’s viscous fluid (colliding electrons in solids can behave like fluids) support unidirectional electromagnetic waves on the edge. These “edge waves” are linked to a new topological phase of matter and symbolize a phase transition in the material, not unlike the transition from solid to liquid.