CUNY ASRC Photonics Team Part of a $30M NSF Center Established to Investigate New Frontiers of Sound Science
Posted on September 7, 2023
NEW YORK, September 7, 2023 — The National Science Foundation has granted a multi-institutional team $30 million over five years to establish a new NSF Science and Technology Center. The New Frontiers of Sound Science and Technology Center, which comes with an additional $30 million funding option over the following five years, will bring together Read More [...]
Matthew Sfeir Named 2023 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
Posted on August 23, 2023
The five-year award will support Sfeir’s work to investigate the infrared and terahertz properties of novel organic polymers that could enable design and development of advanced photonic and quantum-based technologies. NEW YORK, August 23, 2023 — Physicist Matthew Sfeir is among 21 innovative mid-career scientists who will each receive $1.25 million from the Gordon and Read More [...]
No Longer Ships Passing in the Night: These Electromagnetic Waves Had Head-on Collisions
Posted on August 14, 2023
ASRC researchers show it’s possible to make photons that cross paths interact, paving the way for technology breakthroughs. NEW YORK, August 14, 2023 — A research team at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) has shown that it is possible to manipulate photons so that they can collide, interacting Read More [...]
ASRC Researcher Adam Overvig Named A Finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists
Posted on August 9, 2023
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences announced today that Adam Overvig is a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. Overvig, a postdoctoral researcher at the ASRC’s Photonics Initiative, is recognized for developing a new paradigm for manipulating light and thermal radiation using metasurfaces — surfaces of artificial Read More [...]
Mark Hauber to Lead the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center
Posted on July 20, 2023
New York, NY, July 20,2023 — The City University of New York Graduate Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Hauber as the executive director of its Advanced Science Research Center (CUNY ASRC). Established in 2014, the CUNY ASRC is a world-class STEM research and education institution dedicated to interdisciplinary science that addresses Read More [...]
Scientists Demonstrate Time Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves in a Groundbreaking Experiment
Posted on March 13, 2023
The discovery establishes the foundations for revolutionary applications in wireless communications and optical computing. NEW YORK, March 13, 2023 — When we look in a mirror, we are used to seeing our faces looking back at us. The reflected images are produced by electromagnetic light waves bouncing off of the mirrored surface, creating the common Read More [...]
Andrea Alù Explains How He Tricks Light and Sound
Posted on October 18, 2022
By Bonnie Eissner The renown physicist describes his breakthroughs in designing metamaterials and cloaking objects, in “Scientific American.” Creating metamaterials that trick sound and light may sound more like science fiction than science, but that is what Distinguished Professor Andrea Alù (Physics), founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at Read More [...]
Andrea Alù and Team Present First Topological Insulator on an Integrated Chip
Posted on June 1, 2022
Topological insulators are materials that conduct electricity on their surface but behave like insulators on the inside. Their potential is so enormous that a group of scientists who made theoretical discoveries using topological concepts won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2016. A new paper published last month in the journal Nature Electronics presents an Read More [...]
Research Team Makes Breakthrough Discovery in Light Interactions with Nanoparticles, Paving the Way for Advances in Optical Computing
Posted on February 28, 2022
The work is a significant step toward realizing a new generation of ultra-compact, low-energy-use computers capable of complex mathematical computation NEW YORK, February 25, 2022 — Computers are an indispensable part of our daily lives, and the need for ones that can work faster, solve complex problems more efficiently, and leave smaller environmental footprints by Read More [...]
Postdoc Spotlight: Emanuele Galiffi
Posted on September 2, 2021
Dr. Emanuele Galiffi will join Andrea Alù’s group in the ASRC’s Photonics Initiative to conduct research on time metamaterials, investigating whether useful new functionalities can be enabled in materials that change their properties over time. [...]
