Rice Applied Physics Program

The Smalley-Curl Institute is proud to announce that the annual SCI Summer Research Colloquium will take place on Friday, August 2nd. See more information at the event website: sci.rice.edu/colloquium

The Smalley-Curl Institute is featured prominently in the new Research Issue of Rice Magazine, including APP Director Junichiro Kono, shown below. Learn more at magazine.rice.edu

The Smalley-Curl Institute is proud to announce the recipients of the Innovative Graduate Research Fellowships for 2023-2024. Congratulations!

Congratulations to APP advisor Ming Yi on receiving the 2022 Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. news.rice.edu/news/2023/peop…

Congratulations to APP advisor Hanyu Zhu, who has received an NSF CAREER Award! Zhu has received a five-year, $653,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal, “Probing Quantum Materials Modified by Terahertz Quantum Fluctuations.” bit.ly/3y2Lf5T

Congratulations to APP student Jiaming Luo on the publication of his first-author paper in Nano Letters, "Evidence for Topological Magnon–Phonon Hybridization in a 2D Antiferromagnet down to the Monolayer Limit" Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Learn more about the Applied Physics Graduate Program at Rice University! See the video here: bit.ly/3hoAQg5

Congratulations to APP Program Director Junichiro Kono who was awarded a $2-million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in support of his proposal titled “Development of Terahertz Optical Cavities for Creation of Hybrid States of Matter”! 🔗 bit.ly/3h3EzPP

Take the Cake is a Rice GPS event that recognizes students who have been awarded fellowships over $5000. This year, APP had seven recipients! Congratulations to Suhail Aldhurais, Gabriel Diaz, Johaun Hatchett, Aleida Machorro Ortiz, Jaanita Mehrani, Adan Mireles, Luis Victor!

Interested in learning more about earning your PhD in Applied Physics at Rice? Chat with current students and APP Program Director at our virtual info sessions! Register for 10/26: bit.ly/3f6YGvZ Register for 11/09: bit.ly/3DzV9PZ

A team of researchers, including ECE Professor and APP Program Director Junichiro Kono, has received a $1.5 million PIRE grant from the National Science Foundation to support international research and education. 🔗 bit.ly/3Dp537c

Exciting research on perovskite stacks for solar cells from the Mohite lab! APP student Andrew Torma worked on validation of the electronic structure of the 2D/3D perovskite solar cells. Congratulations to all involved! You can check out the paper here: bit.ly/3VpIUfK

APP grad student Andrew Torma is working with advisor Aditya Mohite towards making stable, efficient solar panels out of halide perovskites. news.rice.edu/news/2022/solv…

The next great textbook is on its way! ECE Professor Junichiro Kono is set to publish a new quantum mechanics textbook geared toward undergraduate engineering students. The book is scheduled to be released on September 29, 2022. 🔗 bit.ly/3B2lCDu

Congrats to APP Travel Awards recipients: Jacques Doumani, Hana Jaafari, Joon Pyung Seo, and Weinan Wang! These students will receive funding to cover a portion of expenses for travel to and/or participation in a conference or scientific meeting related to their research.

Applications are still open for the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium at Rice University! Apply by September 1st to be considered for travel awards. GCURS will be held Oct 8-9, 2022. gcurs.rice.edu

APP is currently accepting applications for Fall 2022! Deadline is December 31st. See more at: appliedphysics.rice.edu/prospective-st… #appliedphysics #ricegrad #riceuniversity