Simple superconducting device could dramatically cut energy use in computing, other applications
The ultrasmall “switch” could be easily scaled.
New quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential
Researchers discover how to control the anomalous Hall effect and Berry curvature to create flexible quantum magnets for use in computers, robotics, and sensors.
International team reports powerful tool for studying, tuning atomically thin materials
Work could lead to heady applications in novel electronics and more.
Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity
The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.
Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications
The approach could improve the performance of many other materials as well.
MIT-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable materials
The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.
MIT physicists predict exotic new phenomena and give “recipe” for realizing them
Work with skyrmions could have applications in future computers and more.
Toward new, computationally designed cybersteels
With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, MIT researchers aim to design novel high-performance steels, with potential applications including printed aircraft components and ship hulls.
On batteries, teaching, and world peace
Professor Emeritus Donald Sadoway, renowned electrochemist and influential educator, reflects on 45 years at MIT.
Inspiration at the atomic scale
With new techniques in electron microscopy, James LeBeau explores the nanoscale landscape within materials to understand their properties.
Liang Fu and Patrick Lee receive Larkin Awards in Theoretical Physics
Inaugural award goes to MIT condensed matter theory professors of physics.
Seven with MIT ties receive awards from the American Physical Society
Professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz as well as Yuan Cao SM ’16, PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and others honored for contributions to physics.
Desktop simulation of MIT.nano die bonder enables virtual tool training
Digital twins to expand training capabilities through virtual reality.
A simple way to significantly increase lifetimes of fuel cells and other devices
MIT researchers find that changing the pH of a system solves a decades-old problem.
MIT team reports giant response of semiconductors to light
The materials’ stiffness increases up to 40 percent, in a reversible effect, the researchers report in a study that also explains the phenomenon's atomic origins.