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A new study provides a deeper understanding of what is happening in organic solar cells when light is converted into electricity.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/10/interfaces-in-organic-solar-cells/

A newly discovered star could challenge some models of how stars evolve and the way they produce elements as they age.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/10/old-star-could-provide-new-insights-into-star-evolution/

New technique dictates precisely how layered hybrid perovskite materials convert electrical charge into light.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/10/engineering-layered-hybrid-perovskites/

At NC State University, interdisciplinary teams are leveraging AI to revolutionize research in agriculture, chemical engineering, education and more.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/07/ai-roundup/

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pittsburgh studied how the spin information of an electron, called a pure spin current, moves through chiral materials. They...

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/05/when-injecting-pure-spin-into-chiral-materials-direction-matters/

If you want to know where elements come from, look to the stars.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/04/why-figuring-out-how-potassium-is-destroyed-in-stars-is-important-to-understanding-the-universe/

A well-placed curveball can be an amazing pitch. But how does it work?

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/03/the-physics-of-a-curveball/

A new polymer allows researchers to measure how much charge comes from spin within spintronic materials.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/03/printed-polymer-allows-researchers-to-explore-chirality-and-spin-interactions-at-room-temperature/

Figuring out how nucleons interact at low energy can lead to understanding how elements form within stars.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/11/understanding-charged-particles-helps-physicists-simulate-element-creation-in-stars/

An AI that can learn how it learns chooses a diverse neural network to solve problems.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/08/an-introspective-ai-finds-diversity-improves-performance/

Rongmon Bordoloi talks about primordial gasses and how galaxies are born.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/06/where-do-new-galaxies-come-from/

Just after Christina Koch learned last month that she had been selected for NASA’s Artemis II project — becoming the first woman to travel around the moon and back as part of a four-member cr...

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/04/were-headed-for-the-moon/

Researchers created a mixed magnon state in an organic hybrid perovskite material, which could have implications for quantum computing.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/04/dmi-allows-magnon-magnon-coupling-in-hybrid-perovskites/

Work could lead to the development of faster microchips, neurosensors and quantum computing materials.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/08/naturally-insulating-material-emits-pulses-of-superfluorescent-light-at-room-temperature/

It all adds up for applied mathematics major Madhusudan Madhavan, who scores a 4.0 GPA while becoming only the third 16-year-old to earn an NC State degree in the past quarter century.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/07/teen-wolfpack-young-graduate-makes-history/

Lex Kemper discusses attempts to untangle the secrets of superconducting material YBCO.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/06/understanding-room-temperature-superconductivity/

Rongmon Bordoloi talks about how galaxies are created.

https://news.ncsu.edu/podcast/podcast-galactic-nurseries/

A new instrument and powerful telescope have let researchers peer into galactic nurseries.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/05/galaxy-a-cosmic-telescope-to-study-young-universe/

Researchers explain why some perovskites exhibit superfluorescence at high temperatures.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/03/quantum-shock-absorbers/

During an internship with the NASA Glenn Research Center, Shilpa Kancharla researched ways to replicate natural neural networks and show how they can be applied to cognitive communications. Think...

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/11/nasa-intern-works-on-ais-next-generation/

A 2D hybrid metal halide device allows directional control of terahertz radiation generated by a spintronic scheme.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/09/2dl-hybrid-metal-halide-device-allows-control-of-terahertz-emissions/

A neutron beam technique gave researchers more accurate measurements of silicon's properties, and could be used to detect elusive fifth forces, such as dark energy.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/09/neutron-beam-accurate-probe-fifth-forces/

A new method enables quantum computers to measure the thermodynamic properties of systems by calculating the zeros of the partition function.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/08/partition-function-zeros-shortcut-thermodynamics-quantum-computers/

The law governs friction that occurs when two solid surfaces come into contact with a thin layer of fluid between them.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/04/law-physics-friction-touch-fluid-robots/

Two NC State students have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, joining the ranks of the brightest undergraduate researchers in the nation.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/04/students-win-prestigious-goldwater-scholarships/

2021 Goldwater Scholar Jack Featherstone conducts research into the physics of phenomena on Earth and in outer space.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/04/nc-states-jack-featherstone-wins-goldwater-scholarship/

Computer science and physics major Ana Sofia Uzsoy will study machine learning at Cambridge University next year on one of the country's most prestigious scholarships.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/04/nc-states-third-churchill-scholar-steps-toward-a-bright-future/

You can definitely grow plants (and make electricity) in a greenhouse made of see-through solar panels.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/03/plants-solar-cell-greenhouses/

Graduate student Ryan Wilmington describes the prediction and discovery of electron-hole liquid formation at high temperatures.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/02/search-for-electron-hole-liquids-gets-warmer/

Want to know how a quantum material acts on the atomic level? Zap it with a laser!

https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/01/zapping-quantum-materials-with-lasers/