Drew Morrill’s poster, titled: “High-harmonic generation from a 3 μm wavelength OPCPA,” received an award from the Colorado Photonics Industry Association. The poster illustrates a method to generate soft X-rays using laser arrays. Congratulations, Drew!
STROBE Director of Outreach and Broadening Participation, Dr. Sarah Schreiner, worked with the NSF and other PREM (NSF Partnership for Research and Education in Materials) faculty to develop and organize an MRS PREM Research Scholars Symposium at the 2023 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. This symposium hosted over 100 undergraduate PREM Research Scholars from around the US for two days to participate in professional development and networking activities. Dr. Schreiner ran two workshops at the symposium on Networking at Conferences and Turning Your Science into a Story. The symposium ended with a poster session for all participants. The STROBE-PREM partnership, PEAQS, had 10 students from Fort Lewis College and Norfolk State University participating in the symposium.
The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPS-Ascend) supports postdoctoral fellows performing impactful research in MPS fields while broadening the participation of groups that are underrepresented in the mathematical and physical sciences.
An unusual research project at the University of Colorado turned more than a thousand undergrad students into instant solar scientists.
Join our team at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) Chemical Sciences (CSD) Division as a Postdoctoral Scholar in developing X-Ray and vibrational spectroscopy techniques coupled to microfluidics.
In this role, you will contribute to the development of a multimodal-in situ experimental platform for controlling the latent heat in phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage. You will leverage the potential of metal organic compounds with hydrogen and coordination bonds to modulate phase transition through inter and intramolecular interactions. By employing an advanced, multimodal characterization platform, that includes in situ/multimodal Raman spectroscopy, X-ray scattering, ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy & synchrotron based Infrared Nano-spectroscopy at the Advanced Light Source, your work will provide molecular-level mechanistic insights into PCMs across various length and time scales.
Read more and apply here: https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/x-ray-raman-microfluidics-postdoctoral-fellow-5878
Renowned scientist, JILA Fellow, and University of Colorado Boulder professor Margaret Murnane has been granted an honorary doctorate from the prestigious University of Salamanca, recognizing her outstanding contributions to the field of ultrafast laser science. As a trailblazer in her field, Murnane’s groundbreaking research has revolutionized our understanding of light and opened up new avenues for scientific discovery and technological innovation. This esteemed recognition from one of the oldest universities in the world serves as a testament to Murnane’s remarkable achievements and lasting impact on the scientific community.
Quantum materials, a fascinating class of materials that harness the power of quantum mechanics, are revolutionizing modern science and technology. Quantum materials often possess exotic states of matter, such as superconductivity or magnetic ordering, that defy conventional understanding and can be manipulated for various technological applications. To further enhance and manipulate the intriguing characteristics of quantum materials, researchers leverage nanostructuring—the ability to precisely control the geometry on the atomic scale. Specifically, nanostructuring provides the ability to manipulate and fine-tune the electrical and thermal properties of quantum and other materials. This can result, for example, in designer structures that conduct current very well, but impede heat transport. These structures can help recapture and utilize waste heat in electronics, buildings, and vehicles—enhancing their efficiency and, thereby, reducing power consumption. A related critical challenge for a broad range of nanotechnologies is the need for more efficient cooling, so that the nano devices do not overheat during operation. To better understand heat transport at the nanoscale, JILA Fellows Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, and their research groups within the STROBE NSF Center, JILA and the University of Colorado Boulder, created the first general analytical theory of nanoscale-confined heat transport, that can be used to engineer heat transport in 3D nanosystems—such as nanowires and nanomeshes—that are of great interest for next-generation energy-efficient devices. This discovery was published in NanoLetters.
Congratulations to Nathan Brooks for receiving a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Academia Sinica in Taiwan!
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We are seeking a highly motivated scientist or engineer to join our team and support business growth with semiconductor customers in the United States. The Applications Engineer will work closely with customers and be responsible for translating customer issues into problem statements for UNISERS. The Applications engineer will represent UNISERS as a technical expert in the field and establish recognition of this expertise from the customer. The scope and impact of this role offers the opportunity to grow in technical expertise or project or management leadership positions.
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UNISERS AG is a young start-up from ETH Zurich with revolutionary technology to tackle the biggest challenge in the semiconductor industry: namely, contamination control. Our patented products have been validated to tremendously help the whole semiconductor supply chain (components, materials, wafers, equipment, and chip fabs) with quality control by finding and identifying otherwise undetected or unknown contaminations. Therefore, we will help chip makers reduce the amount of wasted chips (often more than 50%), increasing their profit substantially and at the same time contributing to less waste and CO2 emissions. Having closed a 14 Mio $ seed investment round led by Intel Capital; we are scaling up our team to bring our unique technology to industry as fast as possible.
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Astronomers-in-training spent thousands of hours peering at tiny solar flares that space telescopes missed. A team of more than 1,000 astronomers and college students just took a step closer to solving one of the long-lasting mysteries of astronomy: Why is the sun’s outer layer, known as the corona, so ridiculously hot? The solar surface is 10,000°F, but a thousand miles up, the sun’s corona flares hundreds of times hotter. It’s like walking across the room to escape an overzealous space heater, but you feel warmer far away from the source instead of cooler, totally contrary to expectations.