Electrical engineering and electronics

MIT research scientist Luis Velasquez-Garcia, left, and Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, are developing a tiny sensor that can detect hazardous gases, including biochemical warfare agents.

MIT gas sensor is tiny, quick

Energy-efficient device could quickly detect hazardous chemicals

January 10, 2008

MIT has developed a new system for sorting cells that involves special "traps" in a silicone layer bonded to a microscope slide. Cells with specific properties are then levitated out of their traps using the pressure of a beam of targeted light from a low-cost laser. A flowing fluid then sweeps the selected cells off to a separate reservoir

Laser beam 'fire hose' used to sort cells

Could enable new kinds of biological research

December 11, 2007

Awards and honors

December 5, 2007

Here, dark gray nanoparticles carry different drug payloads (one red, one green). A remotely generated five-minute pulse of a low-energy electromagnetic field releases the green drug but not the red. A five-minute pulse of a higher-energy electromagnetic field releases the red drug, which had been tethered using a DNA strand twice as long as the green tether, as measured in base pairs.

Remote-control nanoparticles deliver drugs directly into tumors

November 20, 2007

Postdocs Peter Rakich, left, and Milos Popovic of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics stand in front of a monitor that shows a demonstration of the way they propose to control microchips with light.

MIT works toward 'smart' optical microchips

Light-powered micro-machines could advance telecommunications

November 1, 2007

MIT develops 'tractor beam' for manipulation of cells on silicon

Tool could manipulate tiny objects on a chip

October 31, 2007

Yanik wins Packard fellowship for neural microchip work

October 17, 2007

MIT finds new hearing mechanism

Discovery could lead to improved hearing aids

October 10, 2007

Eric Hudson and colleagues are trying to understand the secrets of high-temperature superconductivity by tracking individual atoms.

Physics professor probes superconductivity

October 3, 2007

Lakshminarayan Srinivasan (S.M., Ph.D. 2006) is part of a team that develops standardizing math equations to allow neural prostheses to work better. He is currently a medical student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Nervous System Repair at Massachusetts General Hospital.

MIT research helps convert brain signals into action

October 2, 2007

MIT Professor Duane Boning, left, and graduate student Daihyun Lim are working toward increasing the performance of computer chips.

MIT aims to optimize chip designs

Model could reduce fabrication costs

August 16, 2007

Wireless power transfer over two-meter distance, from the coil on the left to the coil on the right, where it powers a 60W light bulb. Members of the team that performed the experiment are obstructing the direct line of sight between the coils; front row: Peter Fisher (left) and Robert Moffatt; second row: Marin Soljacic; third row: Andre Kurs (left), John Joannopoulos and Aristeidis Karalis.

Goodbye wires!

MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords

June 7, 2007

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science awards

June 6, 2007

School of Engineering awards

June 6, 2007

Christina Gillis, right, was a 2006 WTP student in mechanical engineering.

Women's Technology Program graduates first class

June 4, 2007

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