Research Laboratory of Electronics

In the researchers' new system, a returning beam of light is mixed with a locally stored beam, and the correlation of their phase, or period of oscillation, helps remove noise caused by interactions with the environment.

Quantum sensor’s advantages survive entanglement breakdown

Preserving the fragile quantum property known as entanglement isn’t necessary to reap benefits.

March 9, 2015

Cheap, flexible solar

Tuning energy levels through surface chemistry shows promise for higher efficiency quantum dot solar cells, MIT graduate student Patrick R. Brown's work shows.

March 2, 2015

Radio chip for the “Internet of things”

Circuit that reduces power leakage when transmitters are idle could greatly extend battery life.

February 22, 2015

Fibers made by transforming materials

New approach could enable low-cost silicon devices in fibers that could be made into fabrics.

February 20, 2015

Qubits with staying power

Technique greatly extends duration of fragile quantum states, pointing toward practical quantum computers.

January 29, 2015

This image shows the spatial distribution of charge for an accelerating wave packet, representing an electron, as calculated by this team’s approach. Brightest colors represent the highest charge levels. The self-acceleration of a particle predicted by this work is indistinguishable from acceleration that would be produced by a conventional electromagnetic field.

Particles accelerate without a push

New analysis shows a way to self-propel subatomic particles, extend the lifetime of unstable isotopes.

January 20, 2015

Christina Tringides, a senior at MIT and member of the research team, holds a sample of the multifunction fiber produced using the group’s new methodology.

New fibers can deliver many simultaneous stimuli

Implanted into the brain or spinal column, they can transmit drugs, light, and electrical signals.

January 19, 2015

MIT researchers have designed a microfluidic device that allows them to precisely trap pairs of cells (one red, one green) and observe how they interact over time.

Watching how cells interact

New device allows scientists to glimpse communication between immune cells.

January 13, 2015

One of the researchers' new photon detectors, deposited athwart a light channel — or "waveguide" (horizontal black band) — on a silicon optical chip.

Toward quantum chips

Packing single-photon detectors on an optical chip is a crucial step toward quantum-computational circuits.

January 9, 2015

Vivienne Sze receives DARPA 2014 Young Faculty Award

Award honors work on real-time energy-efficient visual data processing for portable media, which will impact elderly-assistance and advanced driver-assistance systems.

December 23, 2014