May 2018 Manfra group contributes to experiments on light-matter interactions for potential quantum technology applications. [Purdue's Today Article]
April 2018 Kennard Chng receives Gabriele F. Giuliani Award for excellence in teaching.
April 2018 Qi Qian receives the Lijuan Wang Award for outstanding female graduate student and the Karl Lark-Horovitz award for outstanding research accomplishment.
April 2018 Congratulations to Mohammad Ali Shirazi for successfully defending his Ph.D thesis.
April 2018 Congratulations to Qi Qian for successfully defending her Ph.D thesis.
April 2018 Congratulations to Michael M. Yannell for successfully defending his master's thesis
November, 2017 New research published in Nature Communications suggests that electrons in a two-dimensional gas can undergo a semi-ordered (nematic) to mostly-ordered (smectic) phase transition. [Purdue Today's Article]
August, 2017 Manfra group travels to Penn State and contributes to EP2DS-22 / MSS-18 with 4 talks and 4 posters.
May 30, 2017 Microsoft, Purdue collaborate to advance quantum computing