Physical Sciences

Raymond Schaak Receives National Fresenius Award
Raymond Schaak Receives National Fresenius Award
Record-breaking Solar Cell Announced by Multinational Research Team
Credit: John Asbury lab, Penn State University Highest ever power conversion efficiency in a colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell has been achieved using inorganic ligands. Credit: John Asbury lab, Penn State University.
Winograd Receives an American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry
Winograd Receives an American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry
Innovative Nanoparticle Purification System Uses Magnetic Fields
"Nano-olives" are made up of an iron oxide "olive" with an iron and platinum "pimento." Together the components make a highly magnetic particle structure, which may one day be useful for data storage in computers. Credit: The Schaak/Williams research groups, Penn State.
Atomic Clock with the World's Best Long-term Accuracy Is Revealed by Research
Credit: National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom
Samarth Appointed Head of the Department of Physics
Samarth Appointed Head of the Department of Physics
Distant Black Hole Discovered Devouring a Sun-like Star
Images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-Ray telescopes (yellow and red) were combined to make this view of Swift J1644+57. Evidence of flares is seen only in the X-ray image, a 3.4-hour exposure taken on March 28, 2011. Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler
Third Annual Penn State REU Symposium Featured Undergraduate Summer Research
A student reviews her physics research project during the REU Symposium poster session.
Donald Schneider Appointed as Head of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Donald Schneider Appointed as Head of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
25th Anniversary of Ashtekar's Landmark Paper is Honored at Conference in Spain
25th Anniversary of Ashtekar's Landmark Paper is Honored at Conference in Spain
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