March 14, 2019
There has been quite a flurry of excitement about quantum mechanics in the news. First there is the paper reported in MIT Review claiming an experiment that “suggests” objective reality does not exist. Massimiliano Proietti at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and colleagues recreated what is known as the Wigner’s Friend thought experiment in the lab. These […]
March 12, 2019
Miguel Larsen and collaborators recently published a paper in Nature Communications titled, “Major upwelling and overturning in the mid-latitude F region ionosphere“. The sensitivity of the large antenna and high transmitter power of the Arecibo Observatory radar allows them to observe dynamical structure in the upper ionosphere with unparalleled temporal and spatial resolution. The observations […]
February 20, 2019
Third year graduate student Meenakshi Rajagopal is spending 6 months at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) institute near Berlin (Germany). She will work with scientists in the DESY gamma-ray group to perform a new measurement of the extragalactic gamma-ray background. This background represents one of most important observables in multi-messenger astrophysics.
December 5, 2017
Medical Beam Laboratories, LLC, a company co-founded by department faculty Drs. Endre Takacs and Mark Leising, doctoral student Donald Medlin and research associate Leon Zheng, received the 2017 InnoVision Technology Development Award. Congratulations to Medical Beam Laboratories!
October 3, 2016
A team of Clemson researchers from the Nanomaterials Center may have found a way to improve the range of electric cars. Read the article in the Anderson Independent.
September 30, 2016
Work at the Clemson Nanomaterials Center demonstrates how to store more energy using modified graphene sheets.
August 30, 2016
Research from the laboratories of Dr. Ramakrishna Podila and Dr. Apparao Rao was recently featured in the Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight. The spotlight summarizes their journal article entitled, “Defect-Engineered Graphene for High-Energy- and High-Power-Density Supercapacitor Devices,” published in Advanced Materials this past June. Read the full text of the spotlight here.
August 19, 2016
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Marco Ajello for being featured in the NASA story, NASA’s Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter. Dr. Ajello and his collaborators from NASA’s Fermi Mission utilized data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) to analyze possible sources of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). In a paper published in the April 14 […]
August 2, 2016
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Clemson University seeks candidates to fill two faculty positions in Astrophysics and Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics at the tenure-track Assistant Professor or higher level to begin August 15, 2017. The successful candidate will be expected to establish a vigorous externally funded research program and teach at both […]
July 12, 2016
The Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student body is excited to announce that this year’s 5th annual Symposium for the Introduction to Research in Physics and Astronomy (SIRPA) will feature key-note speaker, Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus! SIRPA 2016, scheduled for Monday, August 15th, will be held in the new Watt Family Innovation Center. Physics graduate students and […]
