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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.

Mariana Popescu

Assistant Professor, shared appointment with Department of Architecture; Class of 1942 Career Development Professor [AI+D]

madpope@mit.edu

617-324-7787

Office: 7-403b

June 20, 2025

New 3D chips could make electronics faster and more energy-efficient

The low-cost, scalable technology can seamlessly integrate high-speed gallium nitride transistors onto a standard silicon chip.

June 16, 2025

Startup’s biosensor makes drug development and manufacturing cheaper

Protein sensor developed by alumna-founded Advanced Silicon Group can be used for research and quality control in biomanufacturing.

April 11, 2025

Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.

March 31, 2025

“Biomedical lab in a box” empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries

A team at MIT have created a “lab kit in a box” made of locally sourced and easily replaced materials for biomedical students working in Kenya and Uganda, where supply chain and environmental issues can compound technological problems with medical equipment.

March 18, 2025

Department of EECS announces 2025 promotions and appointments

All promotions and appointments will take effect July 1, 2025.

February 20, 2025

Chip-based system for terahertz waves could enable more efficient, sensitive electronics

Researchers developed a scalable, low-cost device that can generate high-power terahertz waves on a chip, without bulky silicon lenses.

Mark Rau

School of Engineering Gale Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; (shared appointment, Music and Theater Arts and EECS), [EE]

mrau@mit.edu

Office: W18-2311

January 10, 2025

Images that transform through heat

The Thermochromorph printmaking technique developed by CSAIL researchers allows images to transition into each other through changes in temperature.