In two recent publications, teams of researchers led by Penn State provide new understanding of why synthetic two-dimensional materials often perform orders of magnitude worse than predicted, and how to improve their performance in future electronics, photonics, and memory storage applications. Read the full story » »
The most economical way to kill the bacteria that cause common food-borne illnesses – mostly caused by Salmonella enterica – is heat, but the mechanisms that kill Salmonella at lower temperatures were not fully understood until now, according to a team of researchers. Read the full story » »
Researchers developed a multistep process to make single crystal atomically-thin films of tungsten diselenide across large-area sapphire substrates. Read the full story » »
Researchers demonstrate that the behavior of particles of light can be made to match predictions about the four-dimensional version of the “quantum Hall effect”. Read the full story » »
This workshop will give a Parametric Analyzer Overview with a focus on making bulk and surface resistivity measurements. See details and register here » »
