February 22, 2017 - Star with seven possible Earth-like planets has UD connection.
When NASA announced in a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 22, that researchers had found seven potentially Earth-like planets orbiting a star 235 trillion miles away, John Gizis, a professor at the University of Delaware, got a big grin on his face. Gizis actually discovered that star in 1999.
“It’s extremely exciting,” Gizis said from his office in UD’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. “It’s a very small and cool dwarf star.
May 18, 2018 - Electromagnetic terahertz (THz) radiation is a versatile tool for a wide variety of sensing technologies ranging from security systems to medical applications. Commonly, THz radiation is created using photoconductive switches and nonlinear crystals. Recently, it was shown that optical excitation of fast spin current pulses in magnetic materials may generate strong THz radiation from transverse spin transport phenomena.
January 11, 2018- Dr. James MacDonald and Dr. Dermott Mullan recently derived the age of the quadruple star system KIC 7177553. The system appears to be younger than originally thought — it’s best modeled as being 32–36 million years old.
2017 Fall DPA Picnic
On a beautiful Saturday noon. staff, faculty and students of Departmenet of Physics and Astronomy had picnic party.
DPA Holiday Party Buffet Dinner
Date: Friday December 8, 2017
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 9:00p.m.
Address: Newark Country Club, 300 W. Main Street.
Price: $10 for faculty, $5 for everyone else. Children under 12 are free.
Please RSVP to Linda by Friday December 1st. 302-831-2661, lbornem@udel.edu
August 11, 2017 - In the recent Nano Letters article, Prof. Nikolic, postdoctral fellow Dr. Kapildeb Dolui, visiting graduate student Juan Manuel Marmolejo-Tejada from Colombia and DPA alumni Dr. Po-Hao Chang, together with collaborators from Denmark and Croatia, have developed new computational approach offering a unique microscopic insight into quantum states of charge and spin at topological-insulator/ferromagnetic-metal (TI/FM) interfaces.