Research highlight: Jagadeesh Moodera
Step-by-step, the Moodera Research Group is building the essential knowledge and hardware for next-generation quantum computers.
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Making electronics out of coal
Instead of burning up this complex hydrocarbon, let’s make devices from it, says Jeffrey Grossman.
MIT researchers look to the future
Symposium explores rich variety of MIT endeavors, from X-ray vision to urban development.
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Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form.
New way to control particle motions on 2-D materials
Study points the way to new photonic devices with one-way traffic lanes.
In Profile: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Experimental physicist explores the wild frontiers of graphene and other ultrathin materials.
How to make electrons behave like a liquid
Analysis predicts exotic behaviors such as “negative resistance,” based on fluid-like effects.
EECS announces four faculty promotions
Palacios, Shah, Tedrake promoted to full professor; Englund promoted to associate professor without tenure.
Faculty highlight: Liang Fu
MIT theoretical physicist’s research bridges abstract math and exotic computing materials.
New chip fabrication approach
Depositing different materials within a single chip layer could lead to more efficient computers.
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.