Electrons corralled using new quantum tool
“Whispering gallery” effect confines electrons, could provide basis for new electron-optics devices.
“Whispering gallery” effect confines electrons, could provide basis for new electron-optics devices.
MIT physics professor has played a leading role in the development of revolutionary new artificial materials.
Bowring, Mrowka, Poterba, and Seager named for “distinguished” research.
Pioneer in semiconductors created MIT's magnet laboratory and served as associate director of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids.
Among 197 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.
Magnet-based setup may help detect the elusive mass of neutrinos.
“Phonon tunneling” explains heat flow across nanometer-wide gaps, study finds.
Magnetic-field detector is 1,000 times more efficient than its predecessors.
Events across MIT will mark the 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity.
African leader tours the lab of Ibrahim Cissé, an assistant professor of physics.
New study identifies the promise and challenges facing large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaics.
Engineering professor undertakes innovative research in reactor design while working toward the realization of nuclear fusion.
Researchers detect features around Chiron that may signal rings, jets, or a shell of dust.