NRL News

NRL Tropical Cyclone Research Team Wins Unique AMS Award
January 11, 2018 — An interdisciplinary team of federal, private, and academic researchers, including scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division, were bestowed the unique “Special Award” from the American Meteorological Society (AMS), at the 98th Annual AMS Meeting in Austin, Texas, January 10, 2018. ... MORE

NRL Improves Optical Efficiency in Nanophotonic Devices
January 4, 2018 — A team of physicists, headed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have demonstrated the means to improve the optical loss characteristics and transmission efficiency of hexagonal boron nitride devices, enabling very small lasers and nanoscale optics... MORE

NRL Researchers Advance Fleet Weather Predictions Through Innovation, Collaboration
December 8, 2017 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Marine Meteorology Division in Monterey, California, houses a team of scientists and engineers who work in conjunction with the lab’s broader scientific community to provide the fleet with the most accurate weather forecasts possible... MORE

Dr. Thomas Carroll Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
November 30, 2017 — Dr. Thomas Carroll, research physicist in the Center for Computational Materials Science at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Carroll is recognized by the APS for research in nonlinear dynamics including experimental detection of transient chaos in magnetic spin-wave materials, synchronization of chaotic systems, applications of chaos to communications and radar, and applying phase space techniques to signal analysis... MORE

New Unmanned Air System Tested on USS Coronado
October 25, 2017 — Researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) successfully completed testing their Nomad flight vehicle off of USS Coronado (LCS 4) in August. This test demonstrated the Nomad’s upgraded launch and control capabilities as well as a new recovery capability by launching multiple vehicles in quick succession, conducting formation flying operations, and recovering all vehicles sequentially onboard the USS Coronado... MORE

Isabella Karle, Renowned Crystallographer and Chemist, Dies at 95
October 24, 2017 — Dr. Isabella Karle, former U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientist and renowned crystallographer, died Oct. 3, 2017, at the age of 95 due to complications from a brain tumor... MORE

NRL Clarifies Valley Polarization for Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies
October 19, 2017 — An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has uncovered a direct link between sample quality and the degree of valley polarization in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In contrast with graphene, many monolayer TMDs are semiconductors and show promise for future applications in electronic and optoelectronic technologies. ... MORE

International Team Observes First Radio Counterpart to Gravitational Waves
October 16, 2017 — Radio astronomers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Radio Astrophysics and Sensing Section, in collaboration with an international team from the Caltech-led Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) project, measured the first ever detection of radio emission from colliding neutron stars nearly 124 million light years from Earth. The team discovered radio frequency emission in the range of 3 and 6 GHz in data taken Sept. 2 -3, 2017... MORE

News Search

Keyword

Date

Start & End Date