[March 2024] Kono tapped to lead Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute
[December 2023] Felix, Andrey, and Fuyang’s paper published in Science Advances! (Rice News)
[December 2023] 4 new graduate students join the Kono group — Alan Covarrubias-Morales (from Mexico), Carlos Criollo (from Colombia), Jiacheng Li (from China), and Albert Wu (from Taiwan)!
[November 2023] Jacques Doumani’s paper published in Nature Communications! (Rice News, LinkedIn)
[October 2023] The First Workshop on Quantum Vacuum in Matter organized at Rice! (Rice News)
[September 2023] Fuyang Tay and Andrey Baydin give keynote talks at the 2023 IRMMW-THz conference
[March 2023] Rice hosts the 2023 TOMODACHI-STEM and MACHI programs (Rice News)
[January 2023] Open postdoctoral positions in cavity QED in the ultrastrong coupling regime.
Applicants with previous experience in designing/characterizing optical cavities and ultrafast optical techniques are preferred.
Interested candidates should apply via this website.
[November 2022] Kono awarded a $2-million grant from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Rice News, ECE News)
[October 2022] Wehmeyer, Kono, and Pasquali receive $1.5m PIRE grant from NSF
[September 2022] Kono publishes a quantum mechanics textbook for engineers (Barnes & Noble, Amazon)
[June 2022] Natsumi receives prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship
[May 2022] Ali Mojibpour and Natsumi Komatsu defend their PhD theses successfully!
[February 2022] Strong magnets put new twist on phonons
[August 2021] Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power
[May 2021] Rice physicists’ RAMBO reveals magnetic phenomenon useful for quantum simulation and sensing
[May 2021] ‘Magic angle’ device can rotate terahertz polarization by 90˚ or more
[May 2021] Odd angles make for strong spin-spin coupling
[May 2021] Thin is now in to turn terahertz polarization
[December 2020] Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors
[December 2020] Kono receives a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant
[August 2020] Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
[June 2020] Nicolas’ contributed abstract upgraded to a KEYNOTE talk at IRMMW-THz!!
[March 2020] Groovy key to nanotubes in 2D
[March 2020] Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation
[March 2020] Takuma’s contributed abstract upgraded to an invited talk at CLEO
[January 2020] Study finds billions of quantum entangled electrons in ‘strange metal’
[July 2019] Rice device channels heat into light (published in ACS Photonics; see also phys.org, Revolution-Green, and Futurity)
[May 2019] Xinwei Li’s contributed abstract upgraded to an invited talk at CLEO!
[April 2019] Xinwei Li successfully defends his Ph.D.
[April 2019] Takuma Makihara receives Goldwater Scholarship!
[August 2018] Rice U. Lab Finds Evidence of Matter-Matter Coupling (published in Science; see also EurekAlert!, Science Daily, phys.org)
[June 2018] Rice signs MOU with Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (see also President Leebron’s tweet)
[May 2018] Xinwei Li receives Incubic Milton Chang Travel Grant at 2018 CLEO Conference (picture in the photo page)
[May 2018] Scientists Go Deep to Quantify Perovskite Properties (published in Nature Communications; see also Rice MSNE)
[April 2018] ‘Exceptional’ Research Points Way Toward Quantum Discoveries (published in Nature Photonics; see also EurekAlert!)
[April 2018] Quantum Shift Shows Itself in Coupled Light and Matter (published in Nature Photonics; see also EurekAlert!)
[April 2018] Trailer prepared for Dr. Kono’s summer online course, ELEC 261: Electronic Materials and Quantum Devices
[March 2018] Plasmons Triggered in Nanotube Quantum Wells (published in Nature Communications; see also phys.org)
[January 2018] Kankan Cong successfully defends her Ph.D.
[December 2017] “Evidence for a topological excitonic insulator in InAs/GaSb bilayers” by Lingjie Du, Xinwei Li, et al. published in Nature Communications (also featured in Rice News and EurekAlert! ).
[August 2017] Ahmed Zubair successfully defends his Ph.D.
[May 2017] The DOE Office of Science published a highlight about our research: “Well-Aligned and Densely Packed”
[April 2017] Weilu Gao was awarded the Chinese National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
[January 2017] Prof. Kono featured in Rice Engineering News “Kono: ‘Teaching and Research are parts of the same activity'”
[December 2016] “Single-shot terahertz time-domain spectroscopy in pulsed high magnetic fields” by Tim Noe, Fumiya Katsutani, et al. accepted for publication in Optics Express
[December 2016] “Giant Terahertz-Wave Absorption by Monolayer Graphene in a Total Internal Reflection Geometry” by Yoichi Harada, Minjie Wang, Tim Noe, et al. accepted for publication in ACS Photonics
[August 2016] “Collective nonperturbative coupling of 2D electrons with high-Q terahertz cavity photons” by Qi Zhang, Minhan Lou, Xinwei Li, et al. published in Nature Physics
[August 2016] “Light and matter merge in quantum coupling” by Rice News and featured on Department of Energy Office of Science website
[August 2016] Minjie Wang successfully defends her Ph.D.
[June 2016] “Students meet Ambassador Caroline Kennedy” by Rice News
[May 2016] Dr. Xiaowei He wins this year’s Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
[April 2016] Weilu Gao successfully defends his Ph.D.
[April 2016] “Nanotubes line up to form films” by Rice News, Futurity, phys.org, Nanotechnology Now, IEEE Spectrum, Nano Daily
[April 2016] Xiaowei He and Weilu Gao’s paper published in Nature Nanotechnology
[April 2016] Manjakavahoaka’s paper has been selected in Spotlight on Optics “Probing low-density carriers in a single atomic layer using terahertz parallel-plate waveguides” by OSA
[February 2016] Grant Program for Global Research Internship (Nakatani RIES Fellowship)
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