Chemical sensing on a chip
Anuradha Agarwal’s miniaturized infrared detection technology research offers the promise of inexpensive sensor networks for many applications.
Faculty highlight: Liang Fu
MIT theoretical physicist’s research bridges abstract math and exotic computing materials.
Concentrating dawn-to-dusk solar energy
MOSAIC award spurs MIT research into concentrator solar cells that can run in shade and full sun with power control and wavelength separation.
Grad students honored for their research at Materials Research Society meeting
Three MIT graduate students win Silver Awards for work on catalysts, hydrogels, and magnetic nanoparticles.
Clearing the way for Floquet-Bloch states
Team demonstrates pure quantum-mechanical mixture of electrons and photons in the solid topological insulator bismuth selenide.
Riding an electronic wave
Graduate student Fahad Mahmood and colleagues show presence of charge-density waves in superconductive material.
Exploring valleytronics
MIT graduate student Edbert Jarvis Sie shows promise of new valleytronics by optical tuning of electronic valleys in tungsten disulfide.
Potash: A silent crisis brews
Farmers in Africa and other tropical areas in the Southern Hemisphere are stripping potassium from soils without replacing it.
Leaching study boosts potash alternative
Microfluidic experiments show feldspar releases potassium at a higher rate than expected, suggesting new possibilities for using ground rocks in agriculture.
Quantum materials: A new paradigm for computing?
Diamond spintronics and graphene-based infrared detectors are among leading-edge technologies reported at annual Materials Day Symposium at MIT.
Seeking potash alternatives
International conference at MIT to focus on cooperative research efforts, alternatives to potassium salts for farming.
Faculty highlight: Nuh Gedik
Associate professor's work on topological insulators and atomically thin materials yields new, laser-driven approaches to materials for electronics.
The second semiconductor revolution
Materials Day, Oct. 14, presents insights into the next generation of extremely thin, tough quantum materials for sensing, energy. and computing devices.