A team led by Judy Cha collaborated with the late Lena Kourkoutis to use cryo-electron imaging to study how defects in the microstructure of the nanomaterial tantalum disulfide affects its properties.

A supercrystal formation previously unobserved in the thin-film Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 was discovered by a Cornell-led research team, potentially unlocking new ways to engineer materials and devices with tunable electronic properties.

A Cornell-led team used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to scrutinize a key intermediate state during singlet fission and found that in certain molecules the intermediate can be directly generated with a strikingly simple technique.

With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of the newly discovered superconductor uranium ditelluride.

Karan Mehta, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in Cornell Engineering, is one of six Cornell researchers who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Mehta’s award supports his group’s investigations of ion-light interaction in tailored spatial field profiles, in which fine spatial variations of the field profile can potentially enhance basic operations relevant for quantum computation and atomic clocks.