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.
Long-sought phenomenon finally detected
Weyl points, first predicted in 1929, observed for the first time.
New manufacturing approach slices lithium-ion battery cost in half
Reinventing how these batteries are made also improves their performance and recyclability.
Three MIT physicists win 2015 NSF and DOE early-career awards
Assistant professors Aram Harrow, Yen-Jie Lee, and Tracy Slatyer will share $2.1 million in research support.
Tunneling across a tiny gap
“Phonon tunneling” explains heat flow across nanometer-wide gaps, study finds.
New analysis shows ion slowdown in fuel cell material
Dislocations in oxides seen as promising electrolytes create a “traffic jam” for charged ions.
How to prevent metal embrittlement
Analysis shows certain crystal boundaries can enhance, or reduce, hydrogen’s damaging effects.
Sequestration on shaky ground
Study finds a natural impediment to the long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide.
Trapping light with a twister
New understanding of how to halt photons could lead to miniature particle accelerators, improved data transmission.
New 2-D quantum materials for nanoelectronics
MIT team provides theoretical roadmap to making 2-D electronics with novel properties.
New dark matter experiments prepare to hunt the unknown
In support of three new experiments, MIT's Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano will answer questions about dark matter research in a live Google Hangout on Nov. 20.
Shedding light on the future of photovoltaics
MIT study finds unprecedented production of metals needed to meet some solar energy goals.
