Materials, Sensors & Devices

Peter Kinget, Bernard J. Lechner Professor of Electrical Engineering

Faculty & Staff

Peter Kinget Receives National Award for VLSI Design Lab Course

March 10, 2026

An artist’s rendering of micro phase shifting.

Research

Columbia’s 3D Vision Technology Powers Factory Automation

February 17, 2026

Yunzhu Li’s 3D-ViTac robotics project combines camera images with data from high-resolution tactile sensors.

Research

Learning to Think and Act in the Physical World

February 04, 2026

by Grant Currin

Members of the Columbia Lioness Quantitative, from Left to Right: Shrina Dong, Education Chair; Anna Maria Zueva, Founder & Co-President; Grace Wu, Vice President; and Sophia Moore, Founder & Co-President.

Students

Strength in Numbers

January 23, 2026

by Beatrice Mhando

Obermeyer Bishop image

Research

Using Acid to Make Liquid Droplets Restructure Themselves

January 09, 2026

by Grant Currin

The BISC implant shown here is roughly as thick as a human hair

Research

Silicon Chips on the Brain: Researchers Announce a New Generation of Brain-Computer Interface

December 08, 2025

Abhi Adhikari, a PhD student in the electrical engineering department, tests one of the COSMOS large nodes.

Research

Expanding the NSF COSMOS Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Research

November 24, 2025

by Xintian Tina Wang

The networking expert was honored for his distinguished contribution to human learning.

Faculty & Staff

Gil Zussman Inducted into the American Academy of Sciences and Letters

November 24, 2025

by Allison Elliott

The arrows in this image represent displacement (with larger arrows indicating greater displacement) and the amount of stress (with red indicating high stress) of a given material.

Research

Understanding How Materials Behave by Watching Them Move

November 21, 2025

by Grant Currin

A new etching technique creates metasurfaces on 2D materials that can efficiently change their nonlinear optical properties

Research

Columbia Engineers Introduce Metasurfaces to 2D Materials

November 20, 2025

by Ellen Neff

Alexander Gaeta, David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science and professor of electrical engineering

Research

Alexander Gaeta Wins 2026 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

November 05, 2025

by Allison Elliott

A thin-film metallic resistor with a temperature-dependent resistance placed directly above a high-Q microcavity acts as an on-chip resistance thermometer.

Research

Columbia Researchers Take the Temperature of Integrated Photonics

November 05, 2025

by Ellen Neff