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Physics Alum Is a Digital Alchemist Transforming Matter

Physics Alum Is a Digital Alchemist Transforming Matter

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Ohio University alum and condensed matter physicist Serge Nakhmanson ’01PhD, a self-described “digital alchemist,” returned recently to his alma mater as a guest colloquium speaker. In addition to presenting on “Computational Design of Multifunctional Complex-oxide Materials Across Length Scales” last March, he talked about […]

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August 19, 2014 at 12:00 pmNews

Hla Chairs International Conference on Nanotechnology

Hla Chairs International Conference on Nanotechnology

An Ohio University physics professor is organizing the 8th International Workshop on Nanoscale Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology (NSS-8), which will be held at the Gleacher Center in Chicago from July 28-31. NSS-8 is a biennial meeting series that shares the latest research advances of science and technology in the nanometer regime. […]

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July 25, 2014 at 8:21 amNews

Max Planck Institute: DNA Used as a Lightswitch

Max Planck Institute: DNA Used as a Lightswitch

From the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and re-printed in R&D magazine Using two thin, tiny gold nanorods 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, researchers have succeeded in creating an adjustable filter for so-called circularly polarized light. The crucial factor for how the system absorbs light is the […]

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July 22, 2014 at 1:34 pmIn the News News

Govorov and Zhang Publish ‘Reconfigurable 3D Plasmonic Metamolecules’

Two Ohio University physicists co-authored a July 6 article on Nature Materials on “Reconfigurable 3D plasmonic metamolecules.” Dr. Alexander Govorov, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and Dr. Hui Zhang, a post-doctoral researcher, were co-authors along with four others: Anton Kurzk and Na Liu, of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems […]

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July 22, 2014 at 11:36 amResearch

Student’s Research Spans Ozone Levels to Quantum Dots

Student’s Research Spans Ozone Levels to Quantum Dots

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy From observing ozone phenomena to building micro-scale devices, senior Helen Cothrel ’15 HTC Physics, explores her environment to the extreme. This summer she is working at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She received funding through […]

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July 22, 2014 at 3:06 amResearch

Asteroid Named in Honor of Professor Thomas Statler

Professor Thomas Statler

It’s not every day you learn an asteroid bears your name. This month, Dr. Thomas Statler, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, attended the triennial “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors” conference in Helsinki, Finland, the leading international gathering in the field of small Solar System bodies, where it’s a tradition to announce new […]

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July 21, 2014 at 11:10 amNews

Physics Alum To Give Wigner Lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratories

Ohio University alum Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ’76PhD, who won a Nobel Prize in 2009, will give the Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratories on July 28. Ramakrishnan earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio University. Dr. Ramakrishnan is the joint head of the structural studies division […]

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July 10, 2014 at 8:50 amAlumni Alumni in the News In the News