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News & Research Highlights
 Congratulations to all AP 2021 graduates!
Congratulations to all Applied Physics 2020-2021 Ph.D. & M.S. graduates!
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Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Physics
Yuan Chen...
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 Stanford researchers develop first self-cooling laser made with a silica fiber
Michel Digonnet, Professor of Applied Physics, and a team of students and collaborators develop the first self-cooling optical fiber made of silica for laser applications...
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 Kam Moler elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Professor of Applied Physics Kam Moler, newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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 David Miller: How light could transform computing
David Miller, by courtesy Professor of Applied Physics and an expert in photonics, explains the remarkable potential of using light instead of electricity in computation...
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 Benjamin Good wins a Sloan Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Good, recepient of a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship in the field of Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology.
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 Stanford physicists create a quantum Archimedes' screw in a 1D gas of dysprosium
By adding some magnetic flair to an exotic quantum experiment, Benjamin Lev's group produced an ultra-stable 1D quantum gas with never-before-seen “scar” states, a...
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