Physical Sciences

Amie Boal receives 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Amie Boal
Amie Boal Receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
A designer’s toolkit for constructing complex nanoparticles
NSF 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship Competition
Eberly College of Science undergraduate to conduct engineering research in Japan
Penn State student Benjamin Piazza will spend three months in Japan studying the nation's culture and conducting research on quantum devices. Image: Jeff Rice
Seven faculty from the Eberly College of Science featured on Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List
Jan Winter 2018 Science Journal Cover bench bedside
Ultra-cold atoms chilled and trapped with light enable unimaginable discoveries
David Weiss
The hunt for more planets to call home
Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona
The Arisian Lens
ESTABLISHING THE RESOLUTION OF THE ARISIAN LENS To determine the resolution limit of the Arisian Lens, the Mahadevan team used a standard created by the United States Air Force. Resolution is determined by the largest set of three bars that a system cannot distinguish. The Arisian Lens was able to distinguish even the smallest group of bars, suggesting that it has a resolution limit at, or below, 0.78μm. Credit: Arpita Roy, Mahadevan Lab
New $18M facility catalyzes synthesis and novel study of 2D materials
This sophisticated apparatus in Davey Lab will allow scientists to create new two-dimensional materials and study them, still in vacuum, at the atomic scale. Photo credit: Nate Follmer
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