Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics manufacturing
Partnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics.
Taking control of light emission
Researchers find a way of tuning light waves by pairing two exotic 2-D materials.
Electrons corralled using new quantum tool
“Whispering gallery” effect confines electrons, could provide basis for new electron-optics devices.
Bendable glass devices
MIT Assistant Professor Juejun Hu melds fundamental materials science and new device designs to enable flexible photonics and other applications.
Materials Processing Center marks 35 years
Service to faculty, collaboration with industry are hallmarks of campus-based Materials Processing Center at MIT.
A mollusk of a different stripe
Optical features embedded in marine shells may help develop responsive, transparent displays.
New fibers can deliver many simultaneous stimuli
Implanted into the brain or spinal column, they can transmit drugs, light, and electrical signals.
Striking the cord: Optical control of motor functions
Grad student Chi Lu and colleagues demonstrate a highly flexible polymer probe for triggering spinal-cord neurons with light and simultaneously recording their activity.
Toward optical chips
A promising light source for optoelectronic chips can be tuned to different frequencies.
Light pulses control graphene’s electrical behavior
Finding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.
Faculty highlight: Marin Soljacic
Physicist reveals new techniques for controlling light by angle, creating transparent displays and photonic crystal bandgaps.
Making the cut
Lincoln Laboratory spinout is commercializing the first direct-diode laser bright enough to cut and weld metal.