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RLE alumnus Seth Coe-Sullivan named one of Technology Review’s 2006 Young Innovators under 35
As a graduate student at MIT, Seth Coe-Sullivan created a possible way to make amazingly bright and colorful displays using quantum dots, tiny semiconductor crystals that emit specific colors of light when energized. « more » Related Links: RLE alumnus…
Energetic Research
All across campus, MIT is working on a big problem. « more » Related Links: Energetic Research Vladimir Bulovic ONELab
Marin Soljacic named one of Technology Review’s 2006 Young Innovators Under 35
To understand the ambitions of Marin Soljacic, think of what the first semiconductor transistors did for the speed and power of computer circuitry–and then think photons instead of electrons. « more » Related Links: Marin Soljacic named one of…
Cycling team peddling Nobel jerseys
MIT professors help fund-raising effort « more » Related Links: Cycling team peddling Nobel jerseys Wolfgang Ketterle
Light-Sensing Fibers for Transparent Cameras
Semiconducting fiber webs could transform the way we make images. « more » Related Links: Light-Sensing Fibers for Transparent Cameras Yoel Fink RLE Fibers@MIT
Chandrakasan to lead microsystems lab
Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been appointed director of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories, effective Sept. 1, Dean of Engineering Thomas Magnanti announced this week. « more »…
MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity
For the first time, MIT scientists have directly observed the transition of a gas to a superfluid, a form of matter closely related to the superconductors that allow electrical currents to travel without resistance. « more » Related Links: MIT physicists…
MIT scientists create fiber webs that see
In a radical departure from conventional lens-based optics, MIT scientists have developed a sophisticated optical system made of mesh-like webs of light-detecting fibers. « more » Related Links: MIT scientists create fiber webs that see Yoel Fink RLE…
A pioneer of quantum computing believes the universe is a quantum computer
Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is among the pioneers of quantum computing: he proposed the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer. If humans ever build a useful, general-purpose quantum computer, it will owe much to…
For Cars of the Future, Will Batteries Be Required?
Anyone who has ever had a cell phone or flashlight die at exactly the wrong time knows that batteries can be tricky things. We love them because they provide us with guilt-free, relatively inexpensive power—but we don’t trust them. And that gives you pause when…
RLE’s John Joannopoulos Named Director of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
John Joannopoulos, the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics, has been appointed director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) effective Saturday, July 1. « more » Related Links: RLE’s John Joannopoulos Named Director of MIT’s…
Erich P. Ippen Awarded the Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America
The OSA’s highest award recognizes Ippen for vision and sustained leadership in the field of optics The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Professor Erich P. Ippen, a principal investigator in RLE…
Quarter Century Club welcomes new members, Young and Charles
With MIT President Emeritus Paul E. Gray as the featured speaker, the Quarter Century Club (QCC) inducted 165 new members at an April 3 luncheon in Walker Memorial’s Morss Hall. « more » Related Links: Quarter Century Club welcomes new members, Young and…
Team revamps energy system for fuel-efficiency
MIT researchers are trying to unleash the promise of an old idea by converting light into electricity more efficiently than ever before. « more » Related Links: Team revamps energy system for fuel-efficiency Professor John Kassakian RLE Laboratory for…
Yoel Fink and Rahul Sarpeshkar Awarded Tenure
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Professor Yoel Fink of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar of the Department of Electrical Engineering…
Nanocrystal Displays
QD Vision’s Seth Coe-Sullivan is using quantum dots to make vibrant, flexible screens. « more » Related Links: Nanocrystal Displays Professor Vladimir Bulovic RLE Organic and Nanostructured Electronics
Three elected to NAS
Three MIT faculty members are among the 72 newly elected members and 18 foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences—an honor that recognizes their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. James G. Fujimoto is one of the three.…
James G. Fujimoto Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Professor James G. Fujimoto, a principal investigator in RLE and a member of MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), was…
Mr. David E. O’Gorman wins the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2006
Ms. Radha Kalluri and Ms. Jocelyn E. Songer receive Honorable Mention The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Mr. David E. O’Gorman has won the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2006. In…
Wolfgang Ketterle and Rajeev J. Ram to be appointed Associate Directors of RLE
Two RLE professors to succeed David E. Pritchard and Jacob K. White Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, has…
MIT technology used to shrink tumor
Medical lasers are like science fiction heat rays that can vaporize tumors. The problem has been getting the lasers to where they are needed inside the body while protecting healthy tissue. « more » Related Links: MIT technology used to shrink tumor…
Controlling optical binding creates trap for optical matter
Optical binding forces can be precisely controlled to realize a trap for self-organized optical matter, MIT researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters. « more » Related Links: Controlling optical binding creates trap for…
MIT light detector may speed up interplanetary communications
MIT researchers have developed a tiny light detector that may allow for super-fast broadband communications over interplanetary distances. Currently, even still images from other planets are difficult to retrieve. « more » Related Links: MIT light…
Stojanovic named Doherty Professor
Vladimir Stojanovic, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded the 2006 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization from the MIT Sea Grant College Program. Every year, the program selects one or two new…
Three awarded MacVicars for great teaching
The 2006 MacVicar Fellows share a passion for education that has earned all three the respect of students and faculty alike. « more » Related Links: Three awarded MacVicars for great teaching Professor Dennis Freeman RLE Micromechanics Group
Vladimir Stojanovic Named 2006–2007 Doherty Assistant Professor of Ocean Utilization
Professorship Promotes Innovative Use of Marine Resources The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Vladimir M. Stojanovic, a principal investigator in RLE and a member of MIT’s Department of…
Optical Biopsy
A new imaging technique can spot potential clots in arteries. « more » Related Links: Optical Biopsy Professor James G. Fujimoto RLE Optics and Quantum Electronics Group
Oppenheim Named Recipient of the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Education Award
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Alan V. Oppenheim, Ford Professor of Engineering and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, is the 2005 recipient of the Signal Processing Education Award of the…
10 education projects earn d’Arbeloff grants
The d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education has awarded approximately $900,000 in grants to fund 10 proposals for innovation in education at MIT. RLE’s Dennis Freeman is one of ten awarded. « more » Related Links: 10 education projects earn…
Professor John M. Wozencraft wins IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that John M. Wozencraft, Professor of Electrical Engineering emeritus, is the 2006 recipient of the Alexander Graham Bell Medal of the Institute of Electrical and…
Stopping Roadside Bombs
New detection technology is helping in Iraq. « more » Related Links: Stopping Roadside Bombs Professor Vladimir Bulovic RLE Organic and Nanostructured Electronics
The MIT Museum Presents, “Scopes, Stationwagons and Solder: Unexpected Images from the Rad Lab and RLE Collections”
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that the MIT Museum is presenting an exhibition entitled, “Scopes, Stationwagons and Solder: Unexpected Images from the Rad Lab and RLE Collections.” The…
Researchers fired up over new battery
Just about everything that runs on batteries—flashlights, cell phones, electric cars, missile-guidance systems—would be improved with a better energy supply. But traditional batteries haven’t progressed far beyond the basic design developed by Alessandro Volta in the…
Four Faculty in RLE to be Promoted
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that four Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) faculty and one Biological Engineering Division (BED) professor in RLE will be promoted…
Prof. H. Jeff Kimble of Caltech to deliver the second Hermann Anton Haus Lecture
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Dr. H. Jeff Kimble, William L. Valentine Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, will deliver the second Hermann Anton Haus Lecture.…
Interplanetary Broadband
Highly sensitive light detectors could enable streaming video from Mars and longer-distance quantum cryptography. « more » Related Links: Interplanetary Broadband Professor Karl Berggren RLE Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group
Bringing Light to Heel
How to stop light in its tracks and hold it captured inside a photonic crystal. « more » Related Links: Bringing Light to Heel Professor Mehmet Yanik RLE High-Throughput Neurotechnology Group
JST Funds New RLE Program Led by Isaac Chuang in Ion Trap Quantum Computing
Creating fresh opportunities for progress in the world-wide race to realize the first large-scale quantum computer, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has funded a new project at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of…
DARPA awards $9.5M Program to Erich P. Ippen of RLE
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a three and a half-year, $9.5 million program to Professor Erich P. Ippen of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project, entitled,…
Optical Society of America honors Marin Soljacic
Professor Marin Soljacic of RLE as been been awarded the Adolph Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America (OSA), recognizing noteworthy contributions to optics before reaching the age of thirty five. Excerpted from the OSA announcement: Optical Society of America…
Mr. Ying-Chih Wang wins the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2005
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Mr. Ying-Chih Wang has won the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2005. Mr. Wang is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who is…
New MIT Faculty Join RLE
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that two MIT faculty have joined the Laboratory. Professor Isaac Chuang is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Professor Physics.…
Dr. Herwig Kogelnik to deliver the first Hermann Anton Haus Lecture
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Dr. Herwig Kogelnik, Adjunct Photonic Systems Vice President, Lucent Technologies — Bell Labs, will deliver the first Hermann Anton Haus Lecture. The lecture…
New MIT Faculty Join RLE
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that two MIT faculty have joined the Laboratory. Professor Elfar Adalsteinsson is Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Assistant Professor of…
From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication
Event to honor Kenneth N. Stevens and survey progress in the field The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that it will co-sponsor, “From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech…
New MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems (CIPS) Launched
New center to provide leadership and direction for photonics R&D For Immediate Release MONDAY, 12 April 2004 Contact: William Smith, Assistant Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations Phone: +1.617.253.5621 Email: whs@mit.edu CAMBRIDGE, MA. 04.12.2004 MIT…
New MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems (CIPS) Launched
MIT researchers from a wide range of MIT departments, laboratories, and centers have joined together to form the new Center for Integrated Photonic Systems (CIPS). The Center, directed by Professor Rajeev J. Ram of RLE, is focused on three goals. First, CIPS seeks to…
Ms. Irina S. Sigalovsky and Dr. Hanfeng Yuan will share the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2004
Prize promotes excellence in student biomedical research For Immediate Release MONDAY, 2 April 2004 Contact: William Smith, Assistant Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations Phone: +1.617.253.5621 Email: whs@mit.edu CAMBRIDGE, MA. 04.02.2004 The Research Laboratory…
Ms. Irina S. Sigalovsky and Dr. Hanfeng Yuan will share the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2004
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Ms. Irina S. Sigalovsky and Dr. Hanfeng Yuan will share the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2004. Ms. Sigalovsky is a graduate student in the Speech and…
RLE Establishes new MIT Scanning-Electron-Beam Lithography (SEBL) Facility
New facility to be a resource for MIT researchers in nanoscience and device fabrication For Immediate Release MONDAY, 1 January 2004 Contact: William Smith, Assistant Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations Phone: +1.617.253.5621 Email: whs@mit.edu CAMBRIDGE, MA.…
RLE Establishes new MIT Scanning-Electron-Beam Lithography (SEBL) Facility
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the establishment of a new MIT Scanning-Electron-Beam Lithography (SEBL) Facility. The SEBL Facility enables the writing of patterns of arbitrary geometries with…
David E. Pritchard Appointed Associate Director of RLE
Succeeds Daniel Kleppner in post For Immediate Release MONDAY, 1 July 2003 Contact: William Smith, Assistant Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations Phone: +1.617.253.5621 Email: whs@mit.edu CAMBRIDGE, MA. 07.01.2003 Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Director of the Research…
In memoriam: Hermann A. Haus, 1925 to 2003
May 22, 2003 Dear Friends, It is with profound sadness that I report the passing yesterday of Hermann Anton Haus, Institute Professor Emeritus. Hermann was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1925. After attending the Technische Hochschule, Graz, and the Technische…
Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar wins ONR Young Investigator Award
Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has been named a recipient of the prestigious Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award. The objectives of the ONR…
Professor James G. Fujimoto Wins Rank Prize for Opto-electronics
Professor James G. Fujimoto of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been named one of the 2002 recipients of the prestigious Rank Prize for…
Professors Qing Hu and Gregory W. Wornell promoted to full Professor
Professor John V. Guttag, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT) has announced that Professors Qing Hu and Gregory W. Wornell of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have…
Texas Instruments donates $1M to Professor Alan V. Oppenheim to promote DSP research
As part of its ongoing commitment to support innovative digital signal processing (DSP) activities and collaborative research at elite electrical engineering programs, Texas Instruments (TI) has announced a three-year, $1 million donation to the Massachusetts…
Dr. Donald K. Eddington wins $2M NIH award to investigate auditory prostheses
Dr. Donald K. Eddington will lead a new research initiative entitled, “Speech Processors for Auditory Prostheses.” This $2M project will involve a multi-institutional collaboration centered at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). The researchers will…
Professor Jacob K. White appointed Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics
Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, announced today that he has appointed Professor Jacob K. White of the…
Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar wins Packard Award
Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar of the Research Laboratory of Electronics has been named a recipient of the prestigious David and Lucille Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. This fellowship program is supported by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. …
Professor Wolfgang Ketterle wins Nobel Prize
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has named Professor Wolfgang Ketterle of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) one of the three recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali…
RLE Professor Gregory W. Wornell and Colleagues Win Major Award from the HP-MIT Alliance to Support Wireless Networking Research
Professor Gregory W. Wornell will lead a significant new collaborative inter-laboratory program funded by the Hewlett-Packard — MIT Alliance in Digital Information Systems. The program is entitled, “Advanced Concepts in Wireless Networking for Mobile Devices.” This…
Professor Yoel Fink and Dr. Ngai C. Wong win major $2.5M award in quantum communication from the QuIST program
Professor Yoel Fink and Dr. Ngai C. Wong will lead an RLE QuIST program entitled, “Long Distance, High Data-Rate Quantum Communication with Ultralow Loss Photonic Gap Fiber.” This $2.5M project will execute a combined theoretical and experimental program to design,…
Ms. Mary E. Young and Mr. David W. Foss of RLE named 2001 MIT Infinite Miles Award recipients
The Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Research announced at an awards luncheon on Monday, May 21, 2001 that Ms. Mary E. Young, RLE’s Fiscal Officer, and Mr. David W. Foss, RLE’s Computer Facilities Manager, would receive MIT…
RLE Professor Erich P. Ippen named recipient of the 2001–2002 James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award
It was announced on Wednesday, 16 May 2001 at the monthly meeting of the MIT faculty that Professor Erich P. Ippen of RLE has been named the 2001–2002 recipient of the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. The Killian Award is the highest honor bestowed by…
RLE Professor Terry P. Orlando wins major $5.7M DURINT awards to explore quantum computation
Professor Terry P. Orlando will lead an RLE DURINT program entitled, “Quantum Computation with Superconducting Quantum Devices.” This $5.7M project (including an associated instrumentation grant also from the DURINT program) will study, design, demonstrate, and…
RLE Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, named the seventh Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics
By Elizabeth A. Thomson MIT News Office Jeffrey H. Shapiro, who has studied optical and quantum communications at the Research Laboratory of Electronics for some 30 years and has been on the MIT faculty since 1973, will become the lab’s new director effective February…
RLE graduate students win Lemelson Prize
Three RLE graduate research assistants won this year’s new $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Team Prize. Michael Lim, Jalal Khan, and Thomas Murphy won the team prize for their fabrication and design research in integrated optical devices. Much of this work was conducted…
RLE Professor Kenneth Stevens wins National Medal of Science
by Deborah Halber, MIT News Office Economist Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, and Kenneth N. Stevens, Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering, are among this year’s recipients of the National Medal of Science. President Clinton today named…
Local school visits RLE’s NanoStructures Laboratory
Angel Haywood peers into an optical microscope. On December 6, a group of three Boston middle-school students (Angel Haywood, Rachel Alexander and Besoni Cohen) and two teachers (Pete Da Silva and Bruce Gray) visited the Nanostructures Laboratory of RLE. They were…
RLE researchers demonstrate Atom Amplification
The shadow of amplified atoms. The RLE group analyzed their atom amplifier by letting the atoms ballistically expand for 30 ms and then taking an absorption image. The two pictures compare results without (left) and with (right) amplification. The spot marked BEC is…
RLE’s Semiconductor Laser Group led by Professor Rajeev Ram
A high speed semiconductor laser coupled to a lensed optical fiber. The Semiconductor Laser group (SLG), headed by Professor Rajeev Ram, is part of the Optics and Devices group of the Research Laboratory of Electronics. The SLG group makes extensive use of advanced…
Jae S. Lim Co-Recipient of 1997 Emmy Award
Wins Emmy for Pioneering Contributions to new US Standard for Digital and High Definition Television The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that in recognition of its pioneering role in…