Artist illustration of plasma resistance on thin materials

By Jamie Oberdick

Making computer chips smaller is not just about better design. It also depends on a critical step in…

Students in the Das lab

By Ty Tkacik

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors,…

Enrique Gomez in the Materials Characterization Lab

Advanced imaging reveals a detailed understanding of the mechanisms driving a previously misunderstood material, researchers…

Amir Sheikhi in the lab

By Ty Tkacik

Despite rare earth elements’ importance in manufacturing cell phones, magnets and a host of other consumer and…

Plastic film over the Penn State athletics logo

Novel ‘polymer alloy’ material made of commercially available plastics demonstrates unprecedented performance at high…

image of a new printing method

By Ty Tkacik

Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed…

Tillinger and Lee researching in their lab

By Ty Tkacik

Power sources used in devices found in or around biological tissue must be flexible and non-toxic, while still…