Advancing integrated photonics at Lincoln Laboratory
State award is funding a new germanium deposition reactor for building the next generation of photonic integrated circuits.
Device makes power conversion more efficient
New design could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles, data centers, and the power grid.
New nanowires are just a few atoms thick
Subnanometer-scale channels in 2-D materials could point toward future electronics, solar cells.
A new window into electron behavior
Scientists invent technique to map energy and momentum of electrons beneath a material’s surface.
Developing new magnetic device materials
Summer Scholar Stephanie Bauman interns in Luqiao Liu lab synthesizing and testing manganese gallium samples for spintronic applications.
“Peel-and-go” printable structures fold themselves
Expanding polymer enables self-folding without heating or immersion in water.
New 3-D chip combines computing and data storage
Advance points toward new generation of computers for coming superstorm of data.
Wireless power could enable ingestible electronics
Small sensors or drug delivery devices could reside in the GI tract indefinitely.
Not stuck on silicon
Engineers use graphene as a “copy machine” to produce cheaper semiconductor wafers.
Researchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
New technique produces highly conductive graphene wafers.
A faster single-pixel camera
New technique greatly reduces the number of exposures necessary for “lensless imaging.”
A big leap toward tinier lines
Self-assembly technique could lead to long-awaited, simple method for making smaller microchip patterns.
Toward printable, sensor-laden “skin” for robots
New 3-D-printed device mimics the goldbug beetle, which changes color when prodded.
Researchers devise efficient power converter for internet of things
Design reduces converter’s resting power consumption by 50 percent.
Voice control everywhere
Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics.