pa09/26/2024Tyler Cocker earns Early Career Research Award for charting new territory in material physicsTyler Cocker received a prestigious 2024 Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy (DOE) for research that uses a technique he pioneered to study atomic motion in materials.
  • Tyler Cocker received a prestigious award from the Department of Energy for his research on atomic motion in materials.
  • Cocker pioneered a technique that uses lightwave-driven terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy to observe single atoms moving in surfaces.
  • Cocker's technique is gaining popularity among other researchers, with more labs building their own instruments to conduct similar studies.
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