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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Unveil the World’s first IBM Quantum System One on a University Campus
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM officially unveiled the world’s first-ever IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI’s bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, IBM Quantum System One will significantly enhance educational and research opportunities for the university, as well as with other academic institutions and organizations across the New York region that wish to partner with RPI. Faculty, researchers, students, and collaborators accessing the system will aim to advance quantum computing research, including the search for quantum algorithms that could lead to quantum advantage, while also actively building the next generation of the quantum workforce alongside IBM.
Rensselaer Professor Esther Wertz Appointed UPWARDS For the Future Faculty Fellow To Support Semiconductor Education, Workforce Training, and Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Esther Wertz, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, has been appointed Rensselaer’s faculty fellow of UPWARDS for the Future. UPWARDS stands for the U.S.-Japan University Partnership for Workforce Advancement and Research & Development in Semiconductors. It was established in May 2023 by Micron and Tokyo Electron Limited to “to bring together 11 universities from across the U.S. and Japan to develop leading semiconductor curricula, creating opportunities for cross-collaboration.”
How a Tiny Device Could Lead to Big Physics Discoveries and Better Lasers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have created the first topological quantum simulator device in the strong light-matter interaction regime that operates at room temperature.
Congressman Tonko Announces Community Projects Investing in Higher Education in the Capital Region
Congressman Tonko will be joined by representatives and supporters of the 3 out his 15 Community Projects focused on investing in the Capital Region’s higher education institutions (RPI, UAlbany, and HVCC). This discussion will educate the Capital Region community and the media on the details and impact of each project; how federal funding for these projects will improve the lives of Capital Region residents; and how Congressman Tonko will champion these projects in the federal budget.
RPI and HVCC Launch Semiconductor Workforce Development Program
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Hudson Valley Community College have welcomed the inaugural class of RPI-HVCC Semiconductor Scholars. Funded by the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, the Scholars program is one of many efforts in the Capital Region and around the country to prepare more students to enter the semiconductor industry.
With New Grant, RPI Works To Shrink Microchips, Expand Semiconductor Workforce
The new, three-year $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Daniel Gall, professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will lead collaborators at RPI, Notre Dame University, and Cornell University on a hunt for new materials that can be made even smaller than current copper wires while offering far less electrical resistance. Discovery of such materials may one day lead to smaller, faster, more energy-efficient computer chips, Gall said.
Rensselaer Researchers Learn to Control Electron Spin at Room Temperature To Make Devices More Efficient and Faster
For decades, scientists have been attempting to use electric fields to control the spin of electrons at room temperature, but achieving effective control has been elusive. In research published in Nature Photonics, a research team led by Jian Shi and Ravishankar Sundararaman of Rensselaer and Yuan Ping of the University of California at Santa Cruz took a step forward in solving the dilemma.
Measuring a Tiny Quasiparticle Is a Major Step Forward for Semiconductor Technology
A team of researchers led by Sufei Shi, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, has uncovered new information about the mass of individual components that make up a promising quasiparticle, known as an exciton, that could play a critical role in future applications for quantum computing, improved memory storage, and more efficient energy conversion.
Unique Material Could Unlock New Functionality in Semiconductors
If new and promising semiconductor materials are to make it into our phones, computers, and other increasingly capable electronics, researchers must obtain greater control over how those materials function. In an article published in Science Advances, Rensselaer researchers detailed how they designed and synthesized a unique material with controllable capabilities that make it very promising for future electronics.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's new president talks entrepreneurship and more
Martin Schmidt comes to Rensselaer after four decades at MIT — and a body of research that's led to seven startups.