May 1, 2015 - Most of us know helium as the lighter-than-air gas that puts lift into birthday balloons or makes a baritone's resonant voice sound more like Donald Duck's. But helium -- a non-toxic element that is abundant in the universe but a scarce, non-renewable resource on earth -- has many significant uses in industry, medicine and science.
April 28, 2015 - Jose D'Arruda, Ph.D. 1971, University of Delaware, has received the Outstanding Physics Alumni Award from Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts. Each spring the Department of Physics and Applied Physics holds an awards banquet, hosted by the Society of Physics Students and the Graduate Physics Association, to honor student award recipients at both the undergraduate and graduate level. At the 2015 banquet in April, Dr. A'Arruda was presented with the Outstanding Physics Alumni Award.
April 23, 2015 - University of Delaware colleagues, friends and students of the late Dr. Norbert Mulders, professor of physics and astronomy, remember him as a dedicated and inspiring teacher, a brilliant experimental physicist and an open and witty companion. Dr. Mulders, a UD alumnus and member of the faculty since 1996, died from complications resulting from esophageal cancer on Monday, March 30. He was 55.
March 12, 2015 - Karl W. Böer, distinguished professor of physics and solar energy, gave a presentation at the Institute of Energy Conversion titled "How to turn CdS p-type using hyper-high-field Böer Domains." He showed that at 125 kV/cm gold electrodes can inject massively holes into CdS, inverting it to become p-type, turning the well-known quenching spectrum with electron density minima at 0.9, 1.2 and 1.3 μm into maxima at nearly the same wavelength.
March 11, 2015 - Don't even try to guess what NASA's next launch will deliver in technological advance, scientific understanding, and new research possibilities. That is mission impossible, says University of Delaware physicist William Matthaeus. "There is no way to predict what the impact will be," he said.
No one has ever seen what scientists expect to see in the $850 million Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, after all. And no one can imagine what the world will be like two years from now -- or 10 years.
December 9, 2014 - In the recent review article published in International Journal of Modern Physics B, Prof. Nikolic and collaborators - Prof. Freericks from Physics and Prof. Frieder from Computer Science Departments at Georgetown University - have proposed new routes to tackle the challenge posed by quantum many-body systems far from equilibrium encountered in condensed matter physics, AMO physics, plasma physics and cosmology.