Professor Miri (lead PI), in collaboration with colleagues from Georgia Techa and UCF, have been awarded an NSF FuSe-REG grant “Enabling Photonic Computing Engines through Hetero-integration”, 10/2023 - 09/2026.

Prof. Timothy Benseman and his student Sarah Elghazoly published a new paper "Powerful terahertz emission from a Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ mesa operating above 77 Kelvin" in Physical Review Applied 19, 034055 (2023).

Congratulations to Dr. Al-Karim Gangji for being selected as a winner of 2023 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by Part-Time Faculty in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences for his dedication to the students at Queens College.

Prof. So Takei’s paper, co-authored with his former PhD student Joshua Aftergood, is now published in Physical Review Letters: "Conductivity Enhancement in a Diffusive Fermi Liquid due to Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086702 (2023).

Prof. So Takei is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Grant: “Quantum spin liquids meet spintronics: Theory of probing quantum spin liquids with spin Hall effects,” (8/2023 - 7/2028).

Professors Azriel Genack and Mohammad-Ali Miri have been awarded a NSF-BSF Grant: “Global Correlation in Complex Structures” (08/2022 - 07/2025). This is collaboration with Prof. Patrick Sebbah at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Professor Lev Deych have received a second NSF-BSF grant “Fluid-fluid interfaces with diminished surface tension and giant thermal and quantum fluctuations as novel materials for ultrasoft photonics” supporting collaboration with an experimental group of Dr. Tal Carmon at Tel Aviv University.

The first graduate from accelerated BS/MS program in Photonics has been hired as a laser engineer by Photonix Technolgies, Inc, a Long Island company specializing in manufacturing of lasers

Professional Master’s in Photonics graduate Echo Yang has accepted a position of Failure Analysis Engineer at TRUMPF Photonics in Cranbury, NJ. Trumpf Photonics is a North  American subsidiary of TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG. based near Stuttgart, Germany and is one of the largest manufacturers of fabricating machinery in the United States

The paper co-authored by Professor Lev Murokh is published in Physical Review Letters as Editor’s Suggestion, Pai Zhao et al., Acoustically Induced Giant Synthetic Hall Voltages in Graphene, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 256601 (2022)

Professor Mohammad-Ali Miri is a recipient of The Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 2022 – 2025, Project title: “Investigating the Complexities of Linear and Nonlinear Optics for Multimode Device Applications and Optical Computing.”

Professor Timothy Benseman is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Grant: Continuous-wave Terahertz laser employing HTS Josephson junctions, 2021 - 2026

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Professor Lisyansky received a grant from ONR to study photon statistics of nano-size light sources

Prof. Lisyansky has published the article entitled “Enhancement of the Raman effect by infrared pumping,” in Physical Review Letters.

Matthieu Davy and Azriel Genack published the article "Selectively exciting quasi-normal modes in open disordered systems," in Nature Communications.