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A Diagnostic Breath Test

A Diagnostic Breath Test

By analyzing carbon dioxide in exhalations, an algorithm could help paramedics determine how to treat patients. « more » Related Links: A Diagnostic Breath Test (Technology Review) Professor George Verghese Professor Thomas Heldt

New law for superconductors

New law for superconductors

Mathematical description of relationship between thickness, temperature, and resistivity could spur advances. « more » Related Links: New law for superconductors (MIT News) Professor Karl K. Berggren Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication…

Dresselhaus is selected for IEEE highest award

Dresselhaus is selected for IEEE highest award

Institute professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus is the recipient of the IEEE 2015 Medal of Honor — IEEE’s highest honor, given since 1917.  She is cited “For leadership and contributions across many fields of science and engineering.” She will receive the award at the June…

No quit for the “Queen of Carbon”

No quit for the “Queen of Carbon”

President Obama gave thanks this week to 18 extraordinary people, including MIT Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, presenting them with the Medal of Freedom. « more » Related Links: No quit for the “Queen of Carbon” (CBS News) Professor Mildred…

Running the color gamut

Running the color gamut

MIT spinout’s quantum-dot technology makes LCD TVs more colorful, energy-efficient. « more » Related Links: Running the color gamut (MIT News) Professor Valdimir Bulovic ONE Lab

Bose grants reward risk

Bose grants reward risk

Five innovative, high-risk projects launch with support from Prof. Amar G. Bose Research Grants. « more » Related Links: Bose grants reward risk (MIT News) Professor Jeffrey Grossman Professor Joel Voldman

Bacteria become “genomic tape recorders”

Bacteria become “genomic tape recorders”

Engineered E. coli can store long-term memories of chemical exposure, other events in their DNA. « more » Related Links: Bacteria become “genomic tape recorders” (MIT News) Genomically encoded analog memory with precise in vivo DNA writing in living cell…

Diagnostic exhalations

Diagnostic exhalations

By analyzing carbon dioxide in the breath, an algorithm could help determine how to treat patients. « more » Related Links: Diagnostic exhalations (MIT News) Automated Quantitative Analysis of Capnogram Shape for COPD–Normal and COPDCHF Classification…

Raising cryptography’s standards

Raising cryptography’s standards

Calculating encryption schemes’ theoretical security guarantees eases comparison, improvement. « more » Related Links: Raising cryptography’s standards (MIT News) Professor Muriel Medard Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group

Beating battery drain

Beating battery drain

Startup’s power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life, save energy in cell towers. « more » Related Links: Beating battery drain (MIT News) Professor David Perreault Power Electronics Research Group

Superconducting circuits, simplified

Superconducting circuits, simplified

New circuit design could unlock the power of experimental superconducting computer chips. « more » Related Links: Superconducting circuits, simplified (MIT News) Professor Karl Berggren Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group

Qing Hu is appointed to professorship

Qing Hu is appointed to professorship

EECS Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan recently announced the appointments of Qing Hu as Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science « more » Related Links: Qing Hu is appointed to professorship (EECS) Professor Qing…

Job seekers to job generators

Job seekers to job generators

RLE’s Translational Fellows Program starts up a new dimension of support for postdocs. « more » Related Links: Job seekers to job generators (MIT News) Translational Fellows Program

Job seekers to job generators

Job seekers to job generators

RLE’s Translational Fellows Program starts up a new dimension of support for postdocs. « more » Related Links: Job seekers to job generators (MIT News) Translational Fellows Program

Job seekers to job generators

Job seekers to job generators

RLE’s Translational Fellows Program starts up a new dimension of support for postdocs. « more » Related Links: Job seekers to job generators (MIT News) Translational Fellows Program

Job seekers to job generators

Job seekers to job generators

RLE’s Translational Fellows Program starts up a new dimension of support for postdocs. « more » Related Links: Job seekers to job generators (MIT News) Translational Fellows Program

Job seekers to job generators

Job seekers to job generators

RLE’s Translational Fellows Program starts up a new dimension of support for postdocs. « more » Related Links: Job seekers to job generators (MIT News) Translational Fellows Program

Job seekers to job generators

Job seekers to job generators

RLE’s Translational Fellows Program starts up a new dimension of support for postdocs. « more » Related Links: Job seekers to job generators (MIT News) Translational Fellows Program

High-speed drug screen

High-speed drug screen

Engineers devise technology for rapidly testing drug-delivery vehicles in zebrafish. « more » Related Links: High-speed drug screen (MIT News) Professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik High-Throughput Neurotechnology Group

Battling superbugs

Battling superbugs

Two new technologies could enable novel strategies for combating drug-resistant bacteria. « more » Related Links: Battling superbugs (MIT News) Enhanced killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria enabled by massively parallel combinatorial genetics (PNAS)…

Toward optical chips

Toward optical chips

A promising light source for optoelectronic chips can be tuned to different frequencies. « more » Related Links: Toward optical chips (MIT News) Professor Mildred Dresselhaus MGM Group Professor Jing Kong Nano-Materials and Electronics…

Englund spotlighted by Brookhaven National Lab

Englund spotlighted by Brookhaven National Lab

Dirk Englund, assistant professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT and head of the Quantum Photonics Group, collaborates with the experts and instruments at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials to explore the…

Digital RLE Training Tutorial

Digital RLE Training Tutorial

RLE is pleased to announce the release of a training tutorial for Digital RLE and the procurement card receipt submission process. Digital RLE brings a paperless environment to RLE for your credit card submission. The training video walks you through the simple…

Pioneering bioelectronic interfaces

Pioneering bioelectronic interfaces

Flexible polymer probes and magnetic nanoparticles promise breakthroughs for treating paralysis and brain disease. « more » Related Links: Pioneering bioelectronic interfaces (MIT News) Professor Polina Anikeeva Bioelectronics Group

Quick test for malaria shows promise

Quick test for malaria shows promise

Magnetic detection method is more portable and less error-prone than conventional tests. « more » Related Links: Quick test for malaria shows promise (Nature) A new way to diagnose malaria (MIT News) Professor Jongyoon Han Micro/Nanofluidic…

A new way to diagnose malaria

A new way to diagnose malaria

Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells. « more » Related Links: A new way to diagnose malaria (MIT News) Professor Jongyoon Han Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group

Quantum engineering

Quantum engineering

It can be difficult to distinguish between basic and applied research in the nascent field of quantum engineering. One person’s exploration of quantum systems like atoms and electrons yields another’s building block for quantum computers, and vice versa. Paola…

Pushing the envelope in power electronics

Pushing the envelope in power electronics

Research improves power conversion in applications ranging from giant server farms to lamps to handheld devices. « more » Related Links: Pushing the envelope in power electronics (MIT News) Professor David Perreault Power Electronics Research…

Running on waste heat

Running on waste heat

Gang Chen’s thermoelectric devices turn waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other machines. « more  » Related Links: Running on waste heat (MIT News) Professor Mildred Dresselhaus

Faculty highlight: Marin Soljacic

Faculty highlight: Marin Soljacic

Physicist reveals new techniques for controlling light by angle, creating transparent displays and photonic crystal bandgaps. « more » Related Links: Faculty highlight: Marin Soljacic (MIT News) Professor Marin Soljacic

Soljacic wins Blavatnik Award

Soljacic wins Blavatnik Award

Marin Soljacic (soh-YA’-cheech), a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was recognized for his discoveries of novel phenomena related to the interaction of light and matter, and his work on wireless power transfer technology. «…

EECS lauds its faculty leadership

EECS lauds its faculty leadership

New co-education and undergraduate laboratories officers welcomed. Karl Berggren included in incoming leaders. « more » Related Links: EECS lauds its faculty leadership (MIT News) Professor Karl Berggren

Making a wire-free future

Making a wire-free future

WiTricity’s wireless charging technology is coming soon to mobile devices, electric cars, and more. « more » Related Links: Making a wire-free future (MIT News) Professor Marin Soljacic

Generating Terahertz Laser Frequency Combs

Generating Terahertz Laser Frequency Combs

RLE PI Qing Hu and graduate students David Burghoff, Tsung-Yu Kao, Ningren Han, Chun Wang Ivan Chan, Xiaowei Cai and Yang Yang have published their breakthrough research on terahertz laser frequency combs, and are featured as the cover story of the June 2014 issue of…

Improving a new breed of solar cells

Improving a new breed of solar cells

Quantum-dot photovoltaics set new record for efficiency in such devices, could unlock new uses. « more » Related Links: Improving a new breed of solar cells (MIT News) Professor Vladimir Bulovic Professor Jeffrey Grossman Organic and Nanostructured…

Getting more electricity out of solar cells

Getting more electricity out of solar cells

  New MIT model can guide design of solar cells that produce less waste heat, more useful current. « more » Related Links: Getting more electricity out of solar cells (MIT News) Professor Marc Baldo MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold…

Terahertz imaging on the cheap

Terahertz imaging on the cheap

New theory could reduce number of sensors required for high-resolution imaging systems. « more » Related Links: Terahertz imaging on the cheap (MIT News) Professor Gregory Wornell Signals, Information and Algorithms Laboratory

Leeb meets with assistant secretary of Defense

Leeb meets with assistant secretary of Defense

Prof. Steven B. Leeb of Massachusetts Institute of Technology tells Sharon Burke, assistant secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs, about the non-intrusive load monitor developed at MIT, during Burke’s visit to the Army Base Camp Integration…

Medard wins best paper award at ISPLC 2014

Medard wins best paper award at ISPLC 2014

Muriel Médard, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the MIT EECS Department and principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT, has been awarded, with co-authors Josu Bilbao, Aitor Calvo, Igor Armendariz, and Pedro…

Excitons observed in action for the first time

Excitons observed in action for the first time

Technique developed at MIT reveals the motion of energy-carrying quasiparticles in solid material. « more » Related Links: Excitons observed in action for the first time (MIT News) Professor Vladimir Bulovic Professor Marc Baldo ONE Lab MIT-Harvard…

A molecular approach to solar power

A molecular approach to solar power

Switchable material could harness the power of the sun — even when it’s not shining. « more » Related Links: A molecular approach to solar power (MIT News) Professor Jeffrey Grossman Grossman Group

Mastering the Biological and Engineering Worlds

Mastering the Biological and Engineering Worlds

Rahul Sarpeshkar bridges biology and engineering to advance research and applications in biotechnology, medicine, and supercomputing. « more » Related Links: Mastering the Biological and Engineering Worlds (ILP News) Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar Analog…

A new angle on controlling light

A new angle on controlling light

System could provide first method for filtering light waves based on direction. « more » Related Links: A new angle on controlling light (MIT News) Professor Marin Soljacic Professor John D. Joannopoulos Professor Steven G. Johnson Optical Broadband…

Engineers design ‘living materials’

Engineers design ‘living materials’

Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that can conduct electricity or emit light. « more » Related Links: Engineers design ‘living materials’ (MIT News) Professor Timothy K. Lu Synthetic Biology Group

MIT Research Looks to Extend Moore’s Law

MIT Research Looks to Extend Moore’s Law

Despite skepticism in the chip industry that Moore’s Law could be reaching its limits, MIT Researchers believe that they have found a way to enable semiconductor manufacturers to continue shrinking geometries below 20 nanometer and produce advanced components cost…

Peekaboo… I see through!

Peekaboo… I see through!

MIT team develops a new, inexpensive transparent projection screen By Paola Rebusco, MIT Picture the Louvre pyramid: the iconic glass pyramid that serves as main entrance and skylight to the landmark museum. The pyramid is illuminated at night, creating a magical…

Seeing beauty in a materials science world

Seeing beauty in a materials science world

Marshall Scholar Colleen Loynachan (Anikeeva group) tackles materials science problems with a photographer’s perspective. « more » Related Links: Seeing beauty in a materials science world (MIT News) Professor Polina Anikeeva Bioelectronics…

Shapiro is selected as SPIE 2013 Fellow

Shapiro is selected as SPIE 2013 Fellow

Jeffrey H. Shapiro has been elected to the grade of Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. SPIE was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Shapiro, the Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering in the MIT

Viewpoint: Tales of 1001 Atoms

Viewpoint: Tales of 1001 Atoms

Imagine trying to count grains of rice in a cup that are shaking about, and then assume the grains are less than a nanometer long. This is akin to what David Hume and colleagues from the University of Heidelberg in Germany have recently done. « more »…