Bake your own robot
New algorithms and electronic components could enable printable robots that self-assemble when heated.
Switchable magnetic pillars
Graduate student Nicolas Aimon develops pulsed laser deposition techniques for mixed multiferroic oxide films.
Faculty highlight: Caroline Ross
New techniques for combining complex oxide thin films promise electrical control of magnetic properties for data storage and computing.
Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles
New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.
Teaching self-assembling structures a new trick
MIT researchers produce 3-D configurations that could lead to new microchips and other devices.
Building chips from collapsing nanopillars
By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.
Biology rides to computers’ aid
Photonic crystals could usher in an age of low-power optical computing, but they’re hard to manufacture. Maybe adding a little DNA would help.