Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM)

A Message from the Director

The Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials supports cutting-edge theoretical and experimental research in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Maryland. CNAM researchers are working on topics ranging from the search for new materials with new physical properties to the design of new electronic devices that work on new physical principles. The research done today in CNAM will have an impact on the technological challenges of tomorrow, from high-speed computing to energy generation, storage, and transfer. CNAM provides an exciting, collaborative environment for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to receive excellent training for careers in science and technology. Please take a look at the rest of this website to find out more about our exciting center!

-- Michael S. Fuhrer, Director

NEWS

•Ian Appelbaum was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Young Scientist award by the Maryland Science Center. He is the first recipient of the newly endowed award. More

•University of Maryland researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to powerful new applications in magnetic storage and magnetic random access memory. UMD Newsdesk

•Dr. Richard L. Greene has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow. He has been honored for distinguished contributions to the field of experimental condensed matter physics, particularly for discovery of superconductivity and other ther novel physics in organic and copper oxide materials.

•Two CNAM members were elected Fellows of the American Physical Society in 2010. Michael Fuhrer was elected “for experimental studies of the electronic transport properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene” and Ichiro Takeuchi “for pioneering contributions to the creation of novel classes of materials using combinatorial synthesis and probing their properties using novel probes.

• August 2010: Johnpierre Paglione and Richard Greene published an article in Nature Physics reviewing the progress of research on iron-based superconducting materials.

• July 2010: Bruce Kane and his research on measuring the properties of graphene were the subjects of an article in Technology Review, June 25.

•July 2010: CNAM researchers led by Prof. Dan Lathrop have captured movies of quantized vortex reconnection in superfluid helium. The work is discussed in the July issue of Physics Today.

•May 2010: CNAM researchers study the motion of atoms pushed by an electronic "wind."

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