Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Institute's largest academic department reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat.
Smart systems for semiconductor manufacturing
Lam Research Tech Symposium, co-hosted by MIT.nano and Microsystems Technology Lab, explores challenges, opportunities for the future of the industry.
Nature can help solve optimization problems
A low-cost analog circuit based on synchronizing oscillators could scale up quickly and cheaply to beat out digital computers.
“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
New technique could enable assembly of circuit boards and displays with more minute components.
SMART develops a way to commercially manufacture integrated silicon III-V chips
New method from MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore paves the way for improved optoelectronic and 5G devices.
Quantum sensing on a chip
Researchers integrate diamond-based sensing components onto a chip to enable low-cost, high-performance quantum hardware.
Engineers develop multimaterial fiber “ink” for 3-D-printed devices
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
MIT engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes
New approach harnesses the same fabrication processes used for silicon chips, offers key advance toward next-generation computers.
Ultrathin 3-D-printed films convert energy of one form into another
Low-cost “piezoelectric” films produce voltage, could be used for flexible electronic components and more.
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
Simulations suggest photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than its electrical counterparts.
Fabrics poised to become the new software
Basic research advance leads to production of more than 250,000 chips embedded within fibers in less than a year.
Generating high-quality single photons for quantum computing
New dual-cavity design emits more single photons that can carry quantum information at room temperature.
Smaller, faster, better: Nanoscale batteries may power future technology
Novel batteries are the first to use water-splitting technology at their core.
New facilities will keep Lincoln Laboratory at the forefront of advanced prototyping
Facility modernization plan includes a new compound semiconductor laboratory and microsystem integration facility that will enable modern innovation.