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March 20, 2025

Harnessing Sunlight to Make Sustainable Fuels

Caltech team from the Liquid Sunlight Alliance demonstrates the feasibility of using a solar-thermal heating system to produce jet fuel

February 13, 2025

Professor Kerry Vahala Awarded 2025 Charles Hard Townes Medal

Kerry Vahala, Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Applied Physics, has been awarded 2025 Charles Hard Townes Medal for his pioneering contributions to the development and application of optical microresonators and nonlinear optical oscillators.

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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.

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

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.