COLLEGE STATION — Just as he has for most of the last 30 years, Texas A&M University astronomer Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff spent the past week watching the night sky. His obsession in this particular case was a comet — particular, more precisely, because he didn’t need a telescope. In likely the biggest surprise in […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicists Dmitry S. Pestov and Dr. Alexei V. Sokolov have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the Robert S. Hyer Research Award of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society (TSAPS). The award, presented Friday (Oct. 19) during a lunch ceremony as part of the two-day Texas […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A site in northern Chile has been selected as the new home for the future of astronomy, the $500 million Giant Magellan Telescope. Officials with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Consortium, which includes Texas A&M University and eight other partner institutions, announced earlier this week that the GMT will be constructed at […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Marlan O. Scully has been selected as a 2007 Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University. Scully, a world-renowned pioneer in quantum and laser physics, is the latest in a staggering line of internationally eminent scientists and mathematicians to receive the highly coveted […]
NEW YORK — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics at Texas A&M University and a world-renowned expert in supernovae and cosmology, is one of 52 international researchers who will share in the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their work toward the discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. The prestigious prize, valued […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astrophysicist Dr. Lifan Wang and colleagues Drs. Dietrich Baade and Ferdinando Patat from the renowned European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich, Germany, are reporting remarkable new findings that help shed light on a decade-long debate about one kind of supernova, the explosion that marks a star’s final demise: Does […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University is one of six core partners in a new multi-million-dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) center expected to revolutionize sensor technology and yield devices capable of transforming aspects of various industries ranging from health care to environmental quality. The center, dubbed MIRTHE for “Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment,” […]
COLLEGE STATION — The casting of the first mirror of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Arizona has been completed and is a big step in the process of creating the largest telescope ever built, says Ed Fry, head of the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University. Texas A&M is one of eight institutions […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mikhail Lukin received his doctorate in physics from Texas A&M University in 1998 under the supervision of Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Marlan O. Scully. Cambridge, Mass. — Mikhail Lukin thinks that devices based on quantum science are at the same stage as radios were about 100 years ago. To catch up, the […]
The New York Times published an article on August 30 about the Giant Magellan Telescope Consortium and its ambitions to construct the largest telescope ever. Thanks to a $1.75 million gift to Texas A&M from George P. Mitchell ’40, Texas A&M is one of eight institutions funding the telescope, which will be the largest and […]
TUSCON, Ariz. — A swirling vat of molten glass is bringing officials and scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University to Tucson this week. Along with their other five partners, the two flagship universities are celebrating the casting of the first of seven mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) […]
Microchip-based diode lasers have had a good run. They’re at the heart of CD and DVD players, computer disc optical drives, and a host of medical devices. Together, these and other applications add up to a sweet $3.5 billion market. But diode lasers can’t do it all. Researchers have struggled to get them to produce […]
COLLEGE STATION — In the blink of an eye, an experiment was conducted last week almost 700 feet underground that could help reveal some of the secrets of the universe, and a Texas A&M University professor has played a key role in the process. Robert Webb, professor of physics, is part of the Fermi Lab […]
Physicists in Europe and the U.S. have performed a novel version of the double-slit quantum-interference experiment with single electrons. In the classic version of the experiment, which was recently voted the most beautiful experiment of all time by readers of “Physics World,” electrons pass through a mask containing two parallel slits and produce a pattern […]
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Engineers and applied physicists have laid the foundations for a new type of “plug and play” laser, the Raman injection laser, and, in the process, several key innovations in laser technology. The device combines the advantages of nonlinear optical devices and semiconductor injection lasers with a compact design, and may one day […]
In 1971, Mikhail Dyakonov and Vladimir Perel of the Ioffe Institute in Leningrad proposed a new transport phenomenon. (1) If one applies an electric field to the ends of a semiconducting strip, they reasoned, electrons would scatter off impurities in a spin-dependent way. As the electrons make their way along the strip, those with up […]
COLLEGE STATION — An international team of physicists has announced discovery of a new spintronic effect in semiconductor chips, the intrinsic spin Hall effect, which puts a new twist on future technology and the possibility for novel circuits with low energy consumption. The team includes physicists Dr. Jörg Wunderlich and Dr. Bernd Kaestner from the […]
PASADENA, Calif. The Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution and the University of Arizona, Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, have signed an agreement to produce the first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — the first telescope of the next-generation of extremely large ground-based telescopes (ELT) to begin mirror production. Texas A&M University is a […]
Quantum mechanics has done it again. In an experiment with supercooled helium, researchers at Penn State say they have found that as a solid ring spins around, part of it can remain perfectly still. At ultracold temperatures, matter often behaves far differently than it does in everyday experience. For instance, many materials turn into superconductors, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Should terrorists strike with biological weapons, how fast scientists could identify the particular “bug” being used might mean the difference between life and death for untold numbers of victims. Physicists at Texas A&M University are conducting experiments to develop a more rapid method to identify airborne bacterial spores. Initial results of the […]
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