Professor Mathias Schubert was renamed IPF-Fellow of the Leibniz-Institut f�r Polymerforschung Dresden e. V..

Professor Mathias Schubert was appointed Guest Professor at Linkoping University in the International Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Functional Materials.

Professor Tino Hofmann has accepted a tenure-track position at the Department of Physics and Optical Science at UNC Charlotte.

Professor Vanya Darakchieva, Linkoping University, Sweden, was named Adjunct Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Professor Tino Hofmann, UNC Charlotte, was named Adjunct Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Our first report on far-infrared and infrared generalized ellipsometry characterization of phonon and plasmon properties in monoclinic single crystal beta Gallium Oxide, Phys. Rev. B 93, 125209 (2016), was highlighted as Editor's suggestion.

Mathias Schubert received a $108,252 award from the Leibniz-Institut f�r Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. for a project entitled Spectroscopic Mueller Matrix Birefringence Imaging Ellipsometer System.