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Yan Huo *94 Fellowship drives research in wireless communication, quantum technology and solar energy
Dec. 22, 2023

Atsutse Kludze focuses on high-speed and efficient system architectures for future communication and sensing networks, especially within the millimeter wave and sub-terahertz frequency range. His work applies electromagnetic and wireless communication theory to experimental evaluation and prototyping. He is also a Semiconductor Research…

IEEE bestows top honors on three pioneering Princeton engineers
Dec. 8, 2023

The organization recognized Andrea Goldsmith, dean of engineering and applied science, for her broad contributions to engineering education; Jennifer Rexford, Princeton’s provost, for developing critical computer networking systems; and Robert Kahn, alumnus, for inventing the internet’s founding technologies.

Prescient research to enable energy-efficient microarchitectures stands the Test of Time
Nov. 29, 2023

A microarchitecture technique first developed by Princeton researchers in 2002 has won the MICRO Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMICRO community, highlighting the researchers’ prescient insights about the realities of power consumption in high-performance computing.

ECE graduate student selected to investigate the future of offshore wind in New Jersey
Oct. 25, 2023

Mian Liao will work on a new grid forming power inverter architecture and ML-based impedance analysis method to enhance stability in offshore wind systems.

Illuminating errors creates a new paradigm for quantum computing
Oct. 11, 2023

A new design has made error-prone quantum computers up to ten times easier to correct, breaking one of the key log jams in the field. Led by Jeff Thompson, the team demonstrated a way to identify and eliminate errors as they occur in real time, using subtle manipulations of atomic energy levels. This is a new direction for research into quantum computing hardware, which more often seeks to lower the probability of an error occurring in the first place.

Taking aim at food waste, new high-frequency wireless system wins best paper at top mobile conference
Oct. 5, 2023

Researchers from Princeton and Microsoft have developed a technology that scans fruit on a conveyor belt and assesses its ripeness by sensing sugar and dry matter content. It is one of the first systems to use sub-terahertz frequencies for smart-food sensing. It could help reduce billions of dollars in food waste. The research won Best Paper at the 2023 MobiCom conference on mobile computing and networking.

Semiconductor expert Loren Pfeiffer wins ‘Innovator’ award for pioneering work on ultra-pure materials
Oct. 3, 2023

Pfeiffer, a senior research scholar in electrical and computer engineering, focuses on developing the world's highest-quality systems of charge carriers in gallium arsenide (GaAs). Molecular beam epitaxy…

Iain McCulloch named Andlinger Center director, joins Princeton ECE faculty
Sept. 27, 2023

McCulloch comes to Princeton and the Andlinger Center from the University of Oxford, where he is a professor of polymer chemistry. He previously served as director of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Solar Center and co-directed a center for plastic electronics at Imperial…

Optics specialist Wadood is named a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sept. 26, 2023

Optics specialist Sultan Abdul Wadood has joined Princeton ECE as a 2023 Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, bringing expertise in imaging and communications technologies.

Linking two solar technologies is a win-win for efficiency and stability
Sept. 6, 2023

Solar cells made with crystals called perovskites are one such technology that have rapidly emerged as an appealing, low-cost add-on, but perovskite cells are notoriously susceptible to voltage-induced changes — the shade cast from an overhanging tree branch or nearby plant can zap an entire module within minutes.

Now, researchers…

A new route to a quantum internet
Aug. 30, 2023

While today’s classical data signals can get amplified across a city or an ocean, quantum signals cannot. They must be repeated in intervals — that is, stopped, copied and passed on by specialized machines called quantum repeaters. Many experts believe these quantum repeaters will play a key role in future communication networks, allowing…

Three ECE professors receive Moore Foundation experimental physics awards
Aug. 23, 2023

The Moore Foundation recently announced 21 such awards for 2023. Each investigator will receive $1,250,000 over the next five years to advance the scientific frontier in experimental physics.