Cornell Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics

Research Areas

Theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics
Experimental Condensed-Matter Physics (Including Complex Systems and Nanoscale Systems)
Biophysics
Optics
Kavli Institute at Cornell

About Us
The Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics is a major center for research in the area of condensed matter physics and related areas. It was founded in 1959, and there are currently 34 faculty members of the Department of Physics associated with the Laboratory. LASSP is a research center associated with the Physics Department. (All physics research is associated with one of two research labs: LASSP and LEPP.)

Research in the Laboratory spans experimental and theoretical studies of many topics, including biophysics; computational physics and multi-scale modeling; electronic, mechanical, and optical properties of nanostructures; exotic and disordered materials; fundamental and applied quantum phenomena; high-precision measurements; low-temperature helium physics; liquid physics; magnetic phenomena and devices; phonons, oscillators, and two-level systems; protein crystallization, scanning-probe microscopies; soft condensed matter physics; strongly-correlated matter; and x-ray physics.

News

Atomic-scale visualization of electrons confirms theory of iron-based superconductors

Researchers demonstrate new way to control nonvolatile magnetic memory devices

Five Junior Faculty Honored by NSF

Kyle Shen receives PECASE Award

Graphene grains make atomic patchwork quilts

Seamus Davis and his fantastic machine

Einstein and car batteries

Four on faculty named Weiss fellows

Graphene is sort of a scientific rock star

Sol Gruner elected to AAAS

NSF PROPOSALS - DATA PLANNING