|
|
Previous Awards
Cagliyan Kurdak
Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
 |
U-M Assistant Professor of Physics Cagliyan Kurdak has been named an
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Kurdak has
distinguished himself with research in condensed matter physics, studying electron
transport in mesoscopic systems.
The prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide financial
support and recognition for young scientists early in their faculty research careers.
Sloan Fellows are awarded two years of research funding. |
Roberto Merlin
Awarded Multidisciplinary Grant (MURI) to Develop New Basis for Electronic Devices
 |
A team led by U-M Professor of Physics Roberto Merlin has been awarded a $5
million Multidisciplinary
University Research Initiative grant by the Department of Defense. The proposal,
"A Comprehensive Approach to Phonon Control for Enhanced Device Performance"
delineates a five-year program of research involving faculty from five institutions. The
Michigan team members are Professor Cagliyan Kurdak, also in Physics, and Professors
Pallab Bhattacharya, Rachel Goldman, George Haddad and Theodore Norris from the College of
Engineering. The project will study the effects of vibrations on electrical and
electro-optical devices, improve and create new sources of phonons (quanta of sound
analogous to photons), and refine the fabrication of tiny devices to filter, focus, and
reflect phonons. |
Quantum Memory: U-M
Physicists Show It's Not Just for Theorists Anymore
 |
Using ultrafast lasers and a beam of cesium atoms,
University of Michigan physicists led by Professor Philip H.
Bucksbaum have created a database that stores and retrieves data in atomic quantum
phase, instead of the bits and bytes used by today's computers.
The complete text of the U-M press release on the
subject is available online. |
Martinus J.G. Veltman
Awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics
|
|
