by RLE at MIT | Jun 29, 2012 | News Links, Promotions
James Fujimoto has been appointed as the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering for a five-year term from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017. «more» Related Links: Fujimoto is selected as Elihu Thomson chair holder Professor James G. Fujimoto RLE Laser...
by RLE at MIT | Jun 25, 2012 | RLE Recent Papers
Bandyopadhyay, S. and Chandrakasan, A.P. A platform architecture combining energy from solar, thermal, and vibration sources is presented. A dual-path architecture for energy harvesting is employed that has a peak efficiency improvement of 11%–13% over the traditional...
by RLE at MIT | Jun 21, 2012 | RLE Recent Papers
Ye-Ryoung Lee, Myoung-Sun Heo, Jae-Hoon Choi, Tout T. Wang, Caleb A. Christensen, Timur M. Rvachov, and Wolfgang Ketterle An important technique for manipulating cold-atom gases is to vary an external magnetic field through a so-called Feshbach resonance between...
by RLE at MIT | Jun 14, 2012 | News Links
The prostheses of the future will be powered by spinal fluid. At least that’s the idea of one group of MIT researchers, who are working with Pentagon funding to create fluid, lifelike, neurally mediated prosthetic limbs. « more » Related Links: Pentagon’s...
by RLE at MIT | Jun 12, 2012 | RLE Recent Papers
Benjamin I. Rapoport, Jakub T. Kedzierski, and Rahul Sarpeshkar We have developed an implantable fuel cell that generates power through glucose oxidation, producing steady-state power and up to peak power. The fuel cell is manufactured using a novel approach,...