Home People Jesús del Alamo People FacultyFaculty AI+DFaculty CSFaculty EEFaculty EmeritusLecturers Leadership Staff Instructors Donner Professor of Science, [EE] alamo@mit.edu (617) 253-4764 Office: 38-246 Website Research Areas Electronic, Magnetic, Optical and Quantum Materials and DevicesNanoscale Materials, Devices, and Systems Latest News More News December 11, 2025 New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a computer chip, this new approach reduces the amount of energy wasted during computation. November 13, 2024 Nanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics Researchers are leveraging quantum mechanical properties to overcome the limits of silicon semiconductor technology. May 13, 2024 Yanjie Shao and Jesús del Alamo receive Intel’s 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award Dr. Yanjie Shao and Professor Jesús del Alamo were among the fifteen leading academic researchers to receive this award. November 29, 2023 Celebrating five years of MIT.nano The Nano Summit highlights nanoscale research across multiple disciplines at MIT. August 1, 2022 New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy Engineers working on “analog deep learning” have found a way to propel protons through solids at unprecedented speeds.
