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“Electronic properties of bare and functionalized two-dimensional (2D) tellurene structures” D. Wines, J. Kropp, G. Chaney, F. Ersan, C. Ataca Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 6727-6737...

NASA has selected Pengwang Zhai as a science team member of the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. Pengwang Zhai is an associate professor in the Physics Department,...

Dr. Deffner publishes a new paper in Physical Review Letters. Together with Prof. Steve Campbell from the University College Dublin, and Dr. Tomas Fogarty and Prof. Thomas Busch from the Okinawa...

Nathan Myers, a 3rd year graduate student working in the Quantum Thermodynamics Group under Prof. Sebastian Deffner, was selected for the Best Poster Prize at the 2020 Quantum Thermodynamics for...

“Unusual Pressure‐Driven Phase Transformation and Band Renormalization in 2D vdW Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskites” Han Li, Ying Qin, Bohan Shan, Yuxia Shen, Fatih Ersan, Emmanuel Soignard, Can...

Jianyu (“Kevin”) Zheng, a 2nd year graduate student was selected for the Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The OSPA is a very prestigious...

Dr. Matthew Pelton (Physics) and Dr. Marie-Christine Daniel (Chemistry) are working to develop a unique combination of existing chemical structures to enable photon-driven computer functionality...

New article published in ACS Photonics “Engineering of Large Third-Order Nonlinearities in Atomic Layer Deposition Grown Nitrogen-Enriched TiO2.” As a result of a research collaboration...

Congratulations to our grad students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: • Jon Gustafson, "Carrier Dynamics in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides via Time-Resolved Terahertz...

UMBC home brewed space technology was launched to the International Space Station on November 2, 2019 as the payload for the HARP CubeSat Satellite. The Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP)...