Two men posing with lab equipment
Mesta Electronics partners to power Penn State semiconductor research

As one of the founding members of Penn State’s Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance (SCIA), Mesta Electronics works with SCIA to grow…

Read More
Photo of student in lab testing acoustics
‘Audible enclaves’ could enable private listening without headphones

By Mariah Lucas

Read More
Jainendra Jain named 2025 Wolf Prize laureate in physics

Jainendra K. Jain, Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Müller Professor of Physics and holder of the Eberly Family Chair in the…

Read More
Illustration and two SEM images
‘Nanodot’ control could fine-tune light for sharper displays, quantum computing

By Jamie Oberdick and Ashley WennersHerron

Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few…

Read More
Stock photo of semiconductor wafer
Penn State to establish new advanced semiconductor lab

By Jamie Oberdick

Read More
Artistic illustration of incipient ferroelectrics
Material’s ‘incipient’ property could jumpstart fast, low-power electronics

By Jamie Oberdick

Scientists at Penn State have harnessed a unique property called incipient ferroelectricity to create a new…

Read More
atomic lattice structure diagram
Magnetic semiconductor preserves 2D quantum properties in 3D material

By Ashley WennersHerron

There is a big problem with quantum technology — it’s tiny. The distinctive properties that exist at the…

Read More
Three professors elected to the national academy
Three Penn State faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering

Three faculty from Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (…

Read More