Professor Heilshorn’s experience of navigating the unfamiliar and intimidating inspires her to encourage underserved students and create an inclusive work environment.

Stanford course teaches scope of materials science and engineering, including career directions and opportunities

A team of researchers including ones from Stanford and Google have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a time crystal.

Nematic transitions in iron pnictide superconductors imaged with a quantum gas

The Scanning Quantum Cryogenic Atom Microscope uses an atomic Bose–Einstein condensate to measure magnetic fields emanating from solid-state samples. The quantum sensor does so with unprecedented d.c. sensitivity at micrometre resolution, from room to cryogenic temperatures

High-Gain Chemically Gated Organic Electrochemical Transistor

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have exhibited promising performance as transducers and amplifiers of low potentials due to their exceptional transconductance, enabled by the volumetric charging of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) employed as the channel material.

Mobile metallic domain walls in an all-in-all-out magnetic insulator

Magnetic domain walls are boundaries between regions with different configurations of the same magnetic order. In a magnetic insulator, where the magnetic order is tied to its bulk insulating property, it has been postulated that electrical properties are drastically different along the domain walls, where the order is inevitably disturbed.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

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Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium

Upcoming Colloquium

Held on Fridays

The Materials Science and Engineering Department promotes an inclusive learning environment

It is our collective duty to educate ourselves about the historical and current inequities that cause some groups to be underrepresented and undervalued in the scientific community. We are actively working to break down socioeconomic barriers to reach talented individuals and help disadvantaged students succeed.

The Applied Physics DEI Committee aims to address issues of equity in all aspects of our department.

The committee is currently comprised of faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students.  Some of our members work with the Physics Department’s Equity and Inclusion Committee to help address joint concerns. We always welcome new ideas!

A climate that values the contributions of and encourages participation from all groups of physicists and potential physicists.

Our vision is that our department should be a world leader not only in producing groundbreaking intellectual achievements in physics, but also in training future generations of physicists who are representative of the diversity of all populations. We envision a community where all members are supported to to do their best work.