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The Atwater group has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

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.

3D printed materials made up of interlocking ring or cage particles—essentially, three-dimensional chain mail—form a new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses like a fluid and to others like a solid.

Yang Zhang has received the 2025 Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) Dissertation Prize.

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.