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May 22, 2025

Kerry Vahala Receives Charles Hard Townes Medal

Kerry Vahala, Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Applied Physics; Executive Officer for Applied Physics and Materials Science, is the recipient of the Charles Hard Townes Medal from the Optica Foundation.

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September 16, 2025

New AI Technique Unravels Quantum Atomic Vibrations in Materials

The new method speeds up calculations that are crucial to the design of new technologies and novel materials

a central bright sphere distorting an atomic lattice on a dark background. Arching wavy lines above represent Feynman diagrams for electron-phonon interactions.

July 10, 2025

Adding Up Feynman Diagrams to Make Predictions about Real Materials

Marco Bernardi and his colleagues have found a way to sum particle interactions in real materials with quantitative accuracy

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August 1, 2025

Bringing Metallurgy Into the 21st Century

The Greer lab has developed a method for creating metal alloys with desired compositions and properties.

A series of alternating red and blue diagonal bulbous beams with black filling in the gaps. The upper bulbs or cells appear to be illuminated.

March 27, 2025

Caltech-led Team Finds New Superconducting State

A new experimental approach to examining thin samples of superconducting materials led to the discovery of a missing piece of the puzzle from both theoretical and experimental perspectives on superconductivity.