Archive: News Story

• Destiny Agubata, Georgetown Physics major and member of the women’s basketball team, was recently named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll

  Destiny Agubata, Georgetown Physics major was recently named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll.

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• Sustainable Alternatives for Next-Generation Magnetic Technologies

  Led by graduate student Willie Beeson, Professors Kai Liu and Gen Yin’s team in the Physics Department at Georgetown University have discovered a new class of strong magnets based on high entropy borides using earth-abundant transition metals and boron. These materials offer a compelling new strategy for sustainable magnet design without using rare-earths or precious metals. Their results are just published in the journal Advanced Materials.

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• Magneto-Ionic Physical Reservoir Computing

  Recent progress in magneto-ionics offers exciting potential to leverage its energy efficiency for implementing physical reservoir computing (PRC). Led by postdoctoral fellow Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Prof. Kai Liu’s group have experimentally demonstrated the classification of temporal data using a perpendicularly magnetized magneto-ionic (MI) heterostructure. Their results are recently published in Nano Letters, in collaboration with Prof. Jayasimha Atulasimha’s group at the Virginial Commonwealth University.

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• Programmable Doping in Epitaxial Graphene Devices

  Prof. Paola Barbara’s research group has demonstrated gate-assisted programmable molecular doping of epitaxial graphene devices.

  Categories: News Story, Research

• Electrical readout of single-molecule magnets using graphene quantum devices

  A Georgetown physics research team has demonstrated a method to electrically detect magnetization switching in single-molecule magnets.

  Categories: News Story, Research, Undergraduate

• Professor Blair elected APS Fellow

  Professor Dan Blair, Director of Graduate Studies, has been named Fellow of the American Physical Society, for the Division of Soft Matter Physics.

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• First Annual Physics Department 5K

  This weekend, the Physics Department came together for a 5K. Undergraduates, grad students, and professors alike ran the 3.1 miles on the gorgeous Capital Crescent Trail. Physics major Sahli Negassi

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• GU Physics at 2025 Astronomy Festival

  The GU Department of Physics participated in the 2025 Astronomy Festival on the National Mall.

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• Professor Paranjape featured in Physics Today.

  Physics Today interviewed Mak Paranjape about his research on micro-devices, and in particular his recent invention of a microscopic transdermal patch for drug delivering and diagnosis testing through the skin. 

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• Prof. Kai Liu’s work featured in two top journals

  Recent publications from Prof. Kai Liu’s group have been featured in a journal cover of ACS Nano and a frontispiece of Advanced Functional Materials, respectively.

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