Drexel Materials Research Society Student Chapter

Hey MSE! Tomorrow, May 15th join us for Meet and Greet with our seminar speakers. Don't miss your chance to chat with them. Oh, and pizza will be there!

T-shirt winner! Get your cool t-shirt today :)

Introducing the official 2019 Drexel Materials t-shirt! Many thanks to PhD student Alex Will-Cole for her winning design. The 2019 t-shirt can be yours for $17. Stop by LeBow Engineering 335 to place an order.

Journal club tomorrow!
February 14th, Thursday, 5 pm at Hill conference room. Bring yourself, your friends and papers that you want to discuss!
Pizza will be provided :)

Metamaterials are cool! Want to learn more about them? Join us for the seminar (at 3 pm in PISB) and PIZZA (4 pm MSE lounge) "Optical Metasurfaces: From Fundamental Science to Application" (who is also Drexel alumnus) Robert Devlin, PhD.

Here is the abstract:
"Traditional materials have predetermined optical properties based on the material’s refractive index and dispersion. By judiciously patterning materials on a scale smaller than the wavelength of light, however, one can create “metamaterials” with electromagnetic responses not achievable in natural materials. Metasurfaces are optical elements with nanoscale thickness and planar profiles that take advantage of this subwavelength patterning to mimic and expand upon the functionality of traditional refractive optics. Produced using standard CMOS processes, metasurfaces enable mass production of optics in semiconductor foundries and provide a route to massively-parallel wafer-scale integration of optical systems. In this talk, I will begin by discussing the fundamentals of metasurfaces and material processing advances that have allowed metasurfaces to perform comparably or better than commercial lenses. I will cover how metasurfaces can realize similar functionality to traditional optics in a smaller form factor, improved functionality offered by metasurfaces, as well as multifunctional aspects of metasurface (e.g., wavelength and polarization diversity) that cannot be carried out by traditional refractive optics. I will finish by discussing Metalenz Inc., a startup focused on commercializing metasurfaces in various consumer electronic applications. I will briefly explain our strategy at Metalenz for transitioning a university technology into high volume markets and challenges involved in scaling the manufacturing processes."

Philly Materials Day! Spreading the word of science :)

Hey MRS friends! T-Shirt design contest is on and the deadline is January 18th.

Use your creativity and design the best Materials Science & Engineering T-shirt! Submit your shirt to [email protected] and
let the best MSE T-shirt win!

Hey MSE dragons, It was a blast! Thank you to all you for coming to our Drexel Alumni Soirée. Hope everyone had fun, met good old friends and made new ones! We'll see you in a year, same place!

Watch the videos from scientists all over the world! Video from Drexel made by Simge Uzun and Bilen Aküzüm is "H" :)

SciVid 2018 Finalists - YouTube The 2018 Science in Video Competition (SciVid) asked scientists to develop high-impact videos to generate a broader interest in materials science that can te...