Rediscovering fundamental innovation
Eugene Fitzgerald explores the innovation dynamics that produce new technological and economic paradigms.
Eugene Fitzgerald explores the innovation dynamics that produce new technological and economic paradigms.
Jill Sewell shepherds the Lambda Project in Professor Keith A. Nelson's lab.
MIT researchers find that Fourier's law of heat conduction breaks down at lengths much longer than previously thought.
Laser doping method could enable new infrared imaging systems.
New room-temperature process could lead to less expensive solar cells and other electronic devices.
New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
Researchers find simple, inexpensive method to produce silicon wires for sensors, batteries and solar cells.
Material that shows melting while cooling might someday lead to applications in solar cells and other devices
Nanowires made of ‘strained silicon’ — silicon whose atoms have been pried slightly apart — show how to keep increases in computer power coming.
By designing chips that can be built using existing fabrication processes, MIT researchers show that computing with light isn’t so far fetched.