3-D cameras for cellphones
Clever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera so simple, cheap and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into handheld devices.
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Self-aware computing project named a 'world changing' idea by Scientific American
Project Angstrom selected by magazine's editors; featured in December issue
David Staelin, longtime professor in EECS and RLE, dies at 73
Researcher led a career distinguished by abundant accomplishments, widespread impact in his 55 years at MIT.
Charging toward better neural implants
Researchers improve the efficiency of devices that stimulate damaged nerves, reducing potential side effects.
Mimicking cells with transistors
Analog — rather than digital — circuits could enable models of biological systems that are more efficient, more accurate and easier to build.
Building chips from collapsing nanopillars
By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.
Movies of electrons
Lasers that emit pulses lasting a quintillionth of a second could characterize the behavior of individual electrons during chemical reactions.
Fink named RLE director
Succeeds Shapiro to lead one of the Institute’s oldest interdepartmental labs
Perfect communication with imperfect chips
Error-correcting codes discovered at MIT can still guarantee reliable communication, even in cellphones with failure-prone low-power chips.
The future of chip manufacturing
MIT researchers show how to make e-beam lithography, commonly used to prototype computer chips, more practical as a mass-production technique.
MIT faculty selected to attend NAE's Frontiers of Engineering
Two from CEE and one from EECS to participate in symposium for young engineering innovators.
Long live the qubit!
The power of quantum computers depends on keeping them in a fragile quantum-mechanical state — which researchers have found a new way to extend.
Spinning new materials in a thread
New technique could enable creation of a variety of fiber-based electronic and photonic devices.
Paola Cappellaro: a quantum engineer on the frontier of knowledge
Spotlight on Women in Nuclear Science and Engineering
Turning windows into powerplants
New technology from MIT could enable a building’s windows to generate power, without blocking the view.