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By using plasmons to “wiggle” a free electron in a sheet of graphene, researchers have developed a new method for generating X-rays. In this image of one of their simulations, the color and height represent the intensity of radiation (with blue the lowest intensity and red the highest), at a moment in time just after an electron (grey sphere) moving close to the surface generates a pulse.

A new way to make X-rays

MIT researchers have found a phenomenon that might lead to more compact, tunable X-ray devices made of graphene.

November 23, 2015

Clockwise from top left: Professors Karl Berggren, Edmund Bertschinger, Victor Zue, and Gerald Fink have been named AAAS Fellows.

Four MIT faculty elected 2015 AAAS Fellows

Berggren, Bertschinger, Fink, and Zue are among those recognized for efforts toward advancing science.

November 23, 2015

During excavation for MIT.nano, the Department of Facilities unearthed an unexpected relic between buildings 12 and 26: a time capsule buried on June 5, 1957, to commemorate the opening of the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories.

Relic from last century

Time capsule buried in 1957 unearthed during excavation for MIT.nano.

November 17, 2015

William Siebert, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, dies at 89

Siebert, an expert in long-range radar, helped shape EECS undergraduate curriculum.

October 30, 2015

Finding a noninvasive way to measure pressure in the brain

MIT researchers team up with Boston Medical Center and Philips to test a noninvasive way to measure intracranial pressure.

September 30, 2015

MIT researchers have devised a new mix-and-match system to genetically engineer bacteria-infecting viruses, called bacteriophages (yellow), to attack specific bacteria.

Viruses join fight against harmful bacteria

Engineered viruses could combat human disease and improve food safety.

September 23, 2015

MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker heralds innovation-based growth

Discussion with President Reif during MIT visit focuses on policy support for new growth.

September 18, 2015

A schematic drawing of how a ring of exceptional points (shown in white) can be spawned from a Dirac point (a dot), and thus change the dispersion from the normal, widely known conical shape into an exotic lantern-like shape

How to spawn an “exceptional ring”

Researchers create exotic states that could lead to new kinds of sensors and optical devices.

September 9, 2015

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.

September 8, 2015

Grad student Colin Kenned, Professor Wolfgang Ketterle, grad student William Cody Burton, and grad student Woo Chang Chung. The Ketterle group is working with lasers to create superfluids.

A new look at superfluidity

MIT team creates a superfluid in a record-high magnetic field.

August 10, 2015

Computing at full capacity

MIT spinout Jisto helps companies optimize utilization with real-time deployment, monitoring, and analytics.

July 31, 2015

Materials that have good wetting properties, as illustrated on the left, where droplets spread out flat, tend to have hydroxyl groups attached to the surface, which inhibits catalytic activity. Materials that repel water, as shown at right, where droplets form sharp, steep boundaries, are more conducive to catalytic activity, as shown by the reactions among small orange molecules.

How to look for a few good catalysts

New research shows non-wetting surfaces promote chemical reaction rates.

July 30, 2015

Associate Professor Michael R. Watts (left) and Professor Lionel C. Kimerling (right).

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.

July 27, 2015

Frederic Morgenthaler, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, dies at 82

Longtime member of the MIT faculty was a dedicated researcher and educator in the field of electromagnetism.

July 6, 2015

Industry Day for Advanced Functional Fabrics of America

AFFOA event to spark conversations on breakthroughs in fiber materials and textile manufacturing processes.

June 11, 2015

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