New chip fabrication approach
Depositing different materials within a single chip layer could lead to more efficient computers.
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Physicists control electrons at femtosecond timescales
Results may help improve efficiency of solar cells, energy-harvesting devices.
Clearing the way for Floquet-Bloch states
Team demonstrates pure quantum-mechanical mixture of electrons and photons in the solid topological insulator bismuth selenide.
Nanodevices at one-hundredth the cost
New techniques for building microelectromechanical systems show promise.
Riding an electronic wave
Graduate student Fahad Mahmood and colleagues show presence of charge-density waves in superconductive material.
Energy UROP: The intersection of research experience and real-world solutions
Students gain hands-on experience over the summer with MITEI's Energy Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
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.
Quantum materials: A new paradigm for computing?
Diamond spintronics and graphene-based infrared detectors are among leading-edge technologies reported at annual Materials Day Symposium at MIT.
Desalination gets a graphene boost
Jeffrey Grossman applies new materials research to making desalination cheaper and more efficient.
Faculty highlight: Nuh Gedik
Associate professor's work on topological insulators and atomically thin materials yields new, laser-driven approaches to materials for electronics.
The second semiconductor revolution
Materials Day, Oct. 14, presents insights into the next generation of extremely thin, tough quantum materials for sensing, energy. and computing devices.
Big range of behaviors for tiny graphene pores
Like biological channels, graphene pores are selective for certain types of ions.
How to make large 2-D sheets
MIT-led team develops method for scaling up production of thin electronic material.
Inexpensive new catalysts can be fine-tuned
Material could replace precious metals and produce precisely controlled electrochemical reactivity.