A late-night “Eureka” moment, a smashed computer and 17 years of persistence led researchers to achieve what many in microwave electronics had long considered out of reach: a tunable, low energy loss class of dielectric materials.

Cornell researchers have shown that excitons can do more than observe magnetism. They can actively steer it.

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns – atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual quantum behaviors – without relying on the twisting and stacking methods traditionally used.

The buildout of a 10,000-square-foot quantum research facility at Cornell is advancing with a new $10 million investment from the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering, with an additional $3.5 million announced to support collaborative research projects.

By measuring the movement of soundwaves rather than the flow of heat, Cornell researchers identified a new intrinsic effect in a quantum material.

A new study shows how tiny changes in atomic structure can strongly influence whether a material becomes superconducting.

Cornell researchers have observed a quantum property of the material for the first time, an advance that could expand its technological reach.

A Cornell-led collaboration used high-resolution 3D imaging to detect, for the first time, the atomic-scale defects in computer chips that can sabotage their performance.

Researchers have found that quantum systems in a frozen state can be stabilized long enough to be a useful strategy for preserving information before it disappears.

Xiaomeng Liu is among five Cornell faculty members who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Liu investigates how collective behavior among electrons gives rise to new quantum properties in advanced materials.

Debanjan Chowdury is one of four Cornell faculty members who have been awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science Early Career Research Program. His research involves programmable noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices.

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.