Professor Kathleen Richardson is featured in the August/September 2020 issue of ElectroOptics in and article “Making materials science work for all“
“It’s a ‘chemistry thing’ blended with a ‘people thing.’ What makes optical materials science so exciting is that the needs of any new optical system rely on the materials that make up its core. You can go to a database and check the attributes of existing materials, but all-too-frequently for cutting-edge, next-generation systems, the non-existent material ‘unobtainium’ is the only one that fits the bill.”