Hu selected for 2015 Holonyak, Jr. Award
Optical Society honors pioneering work on high-performance terahertz quantum-cascade lasers.
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Fujimoto receives the OSA Frederic Ives Medal
MIT professor honored for pioneering the field of optical coherence tomography and leading medical and commercial applications.
Magnetic brain stimulation
New technique could lead to long-lasting localized stimulation of brain tissue without external connections.
Quantum sensor’s advantages survive entanglement breakdown
Preserving the fragile quantum property known as entanglement isn’t necessary to reap benefits.
Cheap, flexible solar
Tuning energy levels through surface chemistry shows promise for higher efficiency quantum dot solar cells, MIT graduate student Patrick R. Brown's work shows.
Radio chip for the “Internet of things”
Circuit that reduces power leakage when transmitters are idle could greatly extend battery life.
Fibers made by transforming materials
New approach could enable low-cost silicon devices in fibers that could be made into fabrics.
Qubits with staying power
Technique greatly extends duration of fragile quantum states, pointing toward practical quantum computers.
Particles accelerate without a push
New analysis shows a way to self-propel subatomic particles, extend the lifetime of unstable isotopes.
New fibers can deliver many simultaneous stimuli
Implanted into the brain or spinal column, they can transmit drugs, light, and electrical signals.
Watching how cells interact
New device allows scientists to glimpse communication between immune cells.
Toward quantum chips
Packing single-photon detectors on an optical chip is a crucial step toward quantum-computational circuits.
Vivienne Sze receives DARPA 2014 Young Faculty Award
Award honors work on real-time energy-efficient visual data processing for portable media, which will impact elderly-assistance and advanced driver-assistance systems.
New law for superconductors
Mathematical description of relationship between thickness, temperature, and resistivity could spur advances.
New findings could point the way to “valleytronics”
Researchers clear hurdles toward a new kind of 2-D microchip using different electron properties.