Quantum sensing on a chip
Researchers integrate diamond-based sensing components onto a chip to enable low-cost, high-performance quantum hardware.
Micro ring resonator has highest silicon carbide quality factor to date
MIT, Singapore researchers show high-quality photonic device based on amorphous silicon carbide.
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
Simulations suggest photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than its electrical counterparts.
Mathematical technique quickly tunes next-generation lenses
“Metasurfaces” that manipulate light at tiny scales could find uses in cellphone lenses, smart-car sensors, and optical fibers.
Training technicians in developing technologies
MIT leads AIM Photonics Academy’s development of a technician-training apprenticeship program.
Opportunities for materials innovation abound
Faculty researchers share insights into new capabilities at the annual Industrial Liaison Program Research and Development Conference.
See-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
Material could be used to coat windows, save on air-conditioning costs.
Takian Fakhrul: Paving “one-way streets” for light inside photonic devices
PhD student designs materials that help guide light within silicon chips, and seeks to advance materials science in her home country of Bangladesh.
Fish-eye lens may entangle pairs of atoms
Scientists find a theoretical optical device may have uses in quantum computing.
MIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
Technique could be used to scale-up self-assembled materials for use as optical sensors, color displays, and light-guided electronics.
On-chip optical filter processes wide range of light wavelengths
Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices.
Researchers devise new way to make light interact with matter
Reducing the wavelength of light could allow it to be absorbed or emitted by a semiconductor, study suggests.
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
Neural network could expedite complex physics simulations.
Engineers design color-changing compression bandage
Bandage is threaded with photonic fibers that change color to signal pressure level.
Integrating optical components into existing chip designs
Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.