Kavli News

07/27/2009

Influence of a Single Electron Measured on a ‘Nano violin string’

Researchers at TU Delft have succeeded in measuring the influence of a single electron on a vibrating carbon nanotube. This research can be important for work such as the development of ultra-small measuring instruments.

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07/21/2009

Caltech Physicists Create First Nanoscale Mass Spectrometer

Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time.

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07/19/2009

UCSB Director of Institute for Energy Efficiency Awarded Kavli Professorship

John E. Bowers, a pioneering professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara and director of the campus's Institute for Energy Efficiency, is the first scholar appointed to the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology.

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07/16/2009

The Men with a Formula for Giving to Science

The Financial Times discusses philanthropic support for basic scientific research with Fred Kavli and Mike Lazaridis, who both addressed a special plenary session at the World Conference of Science Journalists in London.

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07/09/2009

Simulations Illuminate Universe's First Twin Stars

The earliest stars in the universe formed not only as individuals, but sometimes also as twins, a finding determined through robust simulations of the early universe, which are providing astrophysicists their most detailed understanding to date of the formation of the first stars.

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06/17/2009

Planet Found in Tilted Orbit Around Distant Star

An international team of researchers has found a planet around another star whose orbit is steeply tilted from the plane of the star's equator, a finding that contradicts some theories about how solar systems form.

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06/04/2009

Caltech Scientists Create Nanoscale Zipper Cavity that Responds to Single Photons of Light

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale device that exploits the mechanical properties of light and can be used for force detection, optical communication, and more.

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05/15/2009

QUIET Team to Deploy New Gravity-wave Probe in June

Researchers at the University of Chicago are part of an international collaboration that has devised a test to detect remnants of the radiation emitted at the earliest moments of the universe.

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05/11/2009

DOE Names Caltech Professor as Director of EFRC Focusing on Light-Material Interactions

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has announced that it will fund the creation of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years, including one the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). That EFRC will be headed by KNI's Harry Atwater.

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05/08/2009

Kavli Prize Laureate to Co-Lead Energy Frontier Research Center at Columbia University

Columbia University will become home to one of 46 new Energy Frontier Research Centers announced this week by the White House in conjunction with a speech by President Barack Obama to the National Academy of Sciences. Kavli Prize Laureate Louis Brus will co-lead the new center.

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