Penn Engineers’ New Topological Insulator Can Reroute Photonic ‘Traffic’ On the Fly, Making for Faster Chips News / September 12, 2019 Penn Engineers’ New Topological Insulator Can Reroute Photonic ‘Traffic’ On the Fly, Making for Faster Chips The researchers’ chip features a tessellated grid of oval rings. By “pumping” individual rings with an external laser, they are able to dynamically redefine the path photons take. Topological insulators are a game-changing class of materials;... Read More
NSF Awards $1.98 Million Grant to Penn-led Team for Quantum Circuit Research News / August 12, 2019 NSF Awards $1.98 Million Grant to Penn-led Team for Quantum Circuit Research Ritesh Agarwal and Liang Feng In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a list of 10 Big Ideas — areas where innovative research could help catapult the country’s future forward. Now, in 2019, the NSF has begun enabling those ideas by... Read More
Liang Feng Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award News / February 20, 2019 Liang Feng Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award Liang Feng Liang Feng, Assistant Professor in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been selected to receive a 2019 NSF CAREER Award. This award is the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify... Read More
Liang Feng Elected Fellow of the Optical Society News / October 3, 2018 Liang Feng Elected Fellow of the Optical Society Liang Feng Liang Feng, assistant professor in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Optical Society. The scholarly society has, since 1916, been the “world’s leading champion for optics and photonics,... Read More
