News & Events
Optica (formerly OSA) announces that Shanhui Fan, Professor of Applied Physics (By Courtesy), has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize. Fan is honored for foundational…
David Reis, Professor of Applied Physics, and Yijing Huang, graduate student in Applied Physics, conduct X-ray laser experiments that show that intense light distorts the structure of a thermoelectric material…
Applied Physics Professors Phil Bucksbaum, Tony Heinz, and Aharon Kapitulnik have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS describes their Fellows as…
Congratulations to Benjamin Good on being a member of the newest cohort of Bio-Hub investigators!
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, open to faculty from Stanford University, UC San Francisco,…
Tony Heinz, Professor of Applied Physcis became an IEEE Fellow, with the accompanying citation:
for contributions to spectroscopic techniques, nanophotonics, and optical nanomaterials
The IEEE…
Yoshi Yamamoto, Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, wins Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics this year. This award is presented annually at the Physics of Quantum…
A team of researchers including Vedika Khemani, Applied Physics Professor, by courtesy, have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a time crystal.
BY TAYLOR KUBOTA
There is a…
The group of Applied Physics and Physics Professor Benjamin Lev developed a quantum simulator that exhibits the building blocks of sound.
Aiming to emulate the quantum characteristics of materials more…
Stanford Elecrtical Engineering professor and Applied Physics professor, by courtesy, Shanhui Fan, and graduate student Ben Bartlett proposed a simpler design for quantum computers: A relatively simple…
With a heavy heart, we are saddened to announce the death of our friend, colleague, mentor and cheerleader, Ted Geballe. Ted died peacefully at home on Oct 24th 2021, surrounded by his extensive family.…
Applied Physics Professor Tony Heinz wins the 2022 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science "For ground-breaking contributions to the development and application of laser spectroscopic techniques to…
Benjamin Lev, Physics & Applied Physics Professor, along with Physics Professors Srinivas Raghu and Monika Schleier-Smith, are new APS Fellows for work in quantum physics.
By Taylor Kubota
The…
Vedika Khemani, Applied Physics Professor, by courtesy, has won a Breakthrough New Horizons Prize for work on time crystals, a new non-equilibrium phase of matter. The $100,000 New Horizons Prize in…
Congratulations to all Applied Physics 2020-2021 Ph.D. & M.S. graduates!
View PDF version of graduation program.
Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Physics
Yuan Chen
Donish Zaman Khan
Slavko Nicholas…
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.
Congratulations to Professor of Applied Physics Kam Moler, newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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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Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Good, recepient of a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship in the field of Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology.
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 feature that could someday be…
The AP department congratulates Kam Moler on her appointment to the Marvin Chodorow Professorship.
VEDIKA KHEMANI, an assistant professor of physics (courtesy appointment in Applied Physics), was recognized twice last month for “seminal theoretical work” on novel non-equilibrium quantum phases of matter,…
For decades Z-X Shen has ridden a wave of curiosity about the strange behavior of electrons that can levitate magnets.
(Image credit: Courtesy of SLAC)
SLAC and Stanford become founding partners of Q-NEXT national quantum center. Participating Applied Physics faculty are Amir Safavi-Naeini, Kam Moler, Benjamin Lev, Mark Kasevich, Tony Heinz,…
Griffin Glenn, a doctoral student in Applied Physics, has been awarded a Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA SSGF) to support his…
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has created a new annual award – the SPIE Maiman Laser Award – to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the laser’s invention. The educational…