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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.

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

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.

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

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