News: MSE

A Cornell collaboration has found a way to grow a single crystalline layer of alpha-aluminum gallium oxide that has the widest energy bandgap to date – a discovery that clears the way for new semiconductors that will handle higher voltages, higher power densities and higher frequencies than previously seen. The collaboration was led by co-senior authors Debdeep Jena and Huili Grace Xing, both professors in electrical and computer engineering and in materials science and engineering. The team also included David Muller, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor in Applied and Engineering Physics, who... Read more

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Entrepreneur Greg Galvin, M.S. ’82, Ph.D. ’84, MBA ’93, didn’t factor the pandemic into his business plans for the year. He didn’t expect the shutdowns or the equipment shortages. And he didn’t plan on quickly pivoting his biotechnology company to provide a quick, accurate COVID-19 test that enabled Cayuga Health System to open one of the first drive-through testing sites in the nation. Read more

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Congratutaltions to Professor Chris Ober for being awarded a 2020 Research Excellence Award. Research Excellence Awards were first established in 2015 to recognize the importance of leadership in innovative research. You can find the other 2020 winners here, along with past year's winners. Read more

"We start Jr Lab with a review of statistics for determining a materials property using mass of M&Ms as an example. Since we couldn’t do it in the lab this year, I made an app that emulated 4 different balances and the statistics of randomly selected M&Ms along with a few outliers and broken ones. The students used this virtual opportunity to also think about which of the 4 balances was up to the task of accurately characterizing the property with the least expense. In addition to submitting a lab report on statistics, they wrote a “purchase order” proposal recommending which balance could be... Read more

As insulators, metal oxides – also known as ceramics – may not seem like obvious candidates for electrical conductivity. While electrons zip back and forth in regular metals, their movement in ceramic materials is sluggish and difficult to detect. Read more

MSE Ph.D. and University of Dayton scientist, Lou Estevez, has pioneered what the school says is a reusable self-disinfecting N95 mask concept — an idea so promising, the inventor has started a business to commercialize the technology. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/37slFeF Read more

Professor Uli Wiesner's article "Porous cage-derived nanomaterial inks for direct and internal three-dimensional printing" has been chosen by the editors at Nature Communications to be featured on the Editors’ Highlights webpage. The article and more informantion can be found here: https://www.nature.com/collections/wdzvyhgxft/content/johannes-kreutzer Read more

Congratulations to Professor Darrell Schlom for recently being awarded the 2021 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials. Read more