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December 21, 2012
EECS researchers including professors Vladimir Bulovic, Jing Kong and Mildred Dresselhaus and postdoctoral associate Hyesung Park and graduate student Joel Jean have joined MIT colleagues including associate professor of materials science and engineering Silvija Gradecak and postdoctoral associate Sehoon Chang, to produce a new kind of flexible and solar cell based on graphene paired with nanowires and quantum dots. This work could rival the current use of silicon crystals or indium tin oxide (ITO) and is predicted to be scalable for alternative use to the silicon or ITO models. -
December 10, 2012
A team from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) including Jesús del Alamo, the Donner Professor of Science in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), EECS graduate student Jianqian Lin, and Dimitri Antoniadis, the Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering have used indium gallium arsenide to build nanometer-sized metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) that can outpace silicon providing the smallest non-silicon transistors yet. -
November 7, 2012
Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head, and two of his students in the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) have joined a team of researchers from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) to show that a natural battery in the mammalian inner ear can power an implantable electronic device. Read more... -
October 23, 2012
Muriel Médard, professor of electrical engineering in the EECS Department at MIT and principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) has led a team to develop a new way to guarantee more reliable wireless reception. The team has improved wireless bandwidth tenfold by eliminating resending of dropped packets of data, often the source of network clogging. Read more in the Oct. 23, 2012 Technology Review article by David Talbot titled "A Bandwidth Breakthrough. A dash of algebra on wireless networks promises to boost bandwidth tenfold, without new infrastructure." -
October 17, 2012
Calling it a glimpse into the future, technology news website CRN has hailed MIT EECS/CSAIL faculty and the new Wireless@MIT center as the source for seven new technologies that will impact (favorably) our daily lives. Read more... -
October 9, 2012
Read the story about the quest for energy storage and a new company that has arisen in this process. Developed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a new breed of ultracpacitors that can store twice as much energy and deliver 10 times as much power as conventional capacitors is now being produced for commercial use. -
September 18, 2012
As reported by the Champalimaud Foundation, the 2012 António Champalimaud Vision Award was given to several researchers including Professor James G. Fujimoto, Research Laboratory of Electronics affiliate Eric A. Swanson for the creation and development of optical coherence tomography (OCT). Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering, Swanson, and their collaborators were recognized for the major role that OCT now plays in the diagnosis and treatment of the most important blinding diseases of the industrialized world: macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Currently, it is estimated that more than 40 million OCT diagnostic procedures are performed worldwide annually. -
August 23, 2012
Molybdenum-Disulfide (MoS2), like Graphene, is a one-molecule-thick material. But, MIT researchers including EECS Professors Tomas Palacios and Jing Kong have been able to produce complex electronic circuits from MoS2, a material that could have many more applications than graphene. This work is now reported in the journal Nano Letters. -
July 19, 2012
Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles - New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step -
July 3, 2012
Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, a professor of physics and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walks with a very large carbon footprint, and in her case it’s a good thing. For more than half a century, Dr. Dresselhaus has studied the fundamental properties of carbon. -
June 1, 2012
EECS associate professor of electrical engineering Karl Berggren has teamed with MIT Materials Science and Engineering Prof. Caroline Ross to create 3D micro structures that have potential for multiple applications. -
May 16, 2012
"L. Rafael Reif, a distinguished electrical engineer whose seven-year tenure as MIT’s provost has helped MIT maintain its appetite for bold action as well as its firm financial footing, has been selected as the 17th president of the Institute. Reif, 61, was elected to the post this morning by a vote of the MIT Corporation." Read more of the MIT News Office, May 16, 2012 announcement. -
April 24, 2012
Institute Professor Emerita Mildred S. Dresselhaus, working with materials science graduate student Shuang Tang has discovered that bismuth-antimony not only shares the properties that have made graphene the latest wonder material, but which could offer additional and complementary functionality under different conditions. -
March 7, 2012
The MIT News Office continues to spotlight manufacturing in the United States and how the work by researchers at MIT has a direct bearing on the future of U.S. manufacturing and it place in the world -
February 15, 2012
EECS faculty members Vladimir Stojanovic, Rajeev Ram and Michael Watts are collaborating to build the case for integrating optoelectronic and electronic chip components to create the next generation -
February 3, 2012
Dana Weinstein, assistant professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and principal investigator with the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MTL, has been selected -
February 1, 2012
Professor James Kirtley is working with EECS graduate students Michael Zieve and Jared Monnin to build a laboratory-scale microgrid that they will use to verify and further investigate results from -
September 26, 2011
Tomas Palacios is among 94 young scientists and engineers chosen to receive the 2011 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. -
September 21, 2011
EECS Professor Judy L. Hoyt, principal investigator in and currently Associate Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MTL, at MIT, pioneered the development of strained Si MOSFET -
September 20, 2011
The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday, Sept. 20, that it is awarding 79 grants totaling $143.8 million to innovative scientists across the country, including five MIT researchers. The -
September 16, 2011
Summary Reported by the MIT Energy Initiative, EECS Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan working with EECS graduate students has made batteryless power generation possible by relying on temperature -
September 1, 2011
Berggren and Singapore team demonstrate new technique that could produce chip features only 10 nanometers about 30 atoms across. -
August 19, 2011As reported August 15, 2011, by the MIT News Office, an international group of researchers, including members of the Optics and Quantum Electronics Group at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
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July 25, 2011As announced by the MIT News Office in a July 14, 2011 article, a new multi-institution Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering operating under a five-year, $18.5 million grant from the
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June 30, 2011Members of the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) under the direction of Karl K. Berggren, the Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Associate
