Bruce Land wins IEEE Teaching Award

"The Cornell section of the IEEE would like to congratulate Bruce Land as the Cornell professor who, over the course of the spring 2010 semester, has best exemplified the ideals and spirit of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering." Read more

Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. That's enough to completely switch the optical properties of the structure from opaque to transparent, they reported. Read more

AFOSR MURI Award

The award (1 million per year for 5 years) will be shared approximately equally between Cornell and Columbia (Columbia is the lead). The principal investigator is Rick Osgood at Columbia and Professor Michael Spencer will lead the Cornell efforts. Read more