Researchers use atomically thin materials—1/100,000 the size of a human hair—to manipulate the phase of light without changing its amplitude, at extremely low power loss.
As director of Columbia’s newest research arm, the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center, Alan West leads a team developing batteries that can store solar and wind-powered energy.
The award will support the development of new methods that will allow for the manipulation of material systems in real time and the mapping of behavior of these materials with a degree of precision that has not been possible.
Columbia University and IBM today announced a new Center devoted to research, education, and innovation in blockchain technology and data transparency.
The results of a new Columbia study suggest that musical improvisation, like so many other skills, improves with practice as the brain learns to categorize musical structures in a new way.