MTL News Archives for 2016

February 29, 2016

Solar cells as light as a soap bubble

Ultrathin, flexible photovoltaic cells from MIT research could find many new uses.


February 26, 2016

In Profile: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Experimental physicist explores the wild frontiers of graphene and other ultrathin materials.


MTL Holds 2016 Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC2016)


Tec de Monterrey researchers exhilarated by nanotech challenges


February 23, 2016

Tisdale wins Sloan Research Fellowship

Tisdale among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.


Liu appointed Shillman Career Development Chair


Tisdale and Buonassisi win Presidential Early Career Awards

Buonassisi and Tisdale honored with the U.S. government's highest award for young scientists and engineers.


February 19, 2016

MTL Holds 2016 Industrial Advisory Board Meeting


February 11, 2016

Chandrakasan receives honorary doctorate from KU Leuven

EECS Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan recognized as global authority in the field of electronic chip development by KU Leuven.


Photos: CICS/MTL Reception at ISSCC 2016

February 1, 2016 at the San Francisco Marriott


February 8, 2016

Faculty promotions for Tomás Palacios and Dirk Englund

Palacios promoted to Full Professor; Englund promoted to Associate Professor without tenure


February 3, 2016

Ludmila Leoparde promoted to Financial Officer, MTL Service Center

E-mail sent to community on February 3, 2016


Energy-friendly chip can perform powerful artificial-intelligence tasks

Advance could enable mobile devices to implement "neural networks" modeled on the human brain.


Hack-proof RFID chips

New technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods in warehouses.


February 2, 2016

A virtual "guide dog" for navigation

Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired.


February 1, 2016

Video update: Thomas Heldt

Improving Physiological Models with Patient Data Streams


Photos: 2016 IAB Meeting

January 22, 2016 at MIT in Cambridge, MA