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The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) currently
pursues seven major research themes. These seven themes,
in turn, form the major topics that approximately forty
research groups, centers and laboratories—most
organized around an RLE professor or senior staff
scientist—investigate.
In this theme, an extensive range of investigations are carried out in ultracold
atoms, quantum condensed gases, and atom optics. New methods are being developed
for manipulating and probing Bose-Einstein condensed atomic gases and exploring
ultracold interactions and collision dynamics. Additional work focuses on atom
lasers, atom interferometry, atom waveguides, surface physics, quantum reflection,
many body physics in lower dimensions, plasmas, and electromagnetics.
This theme includes a complete range of activities over
all aspects of electronics, including structures, devices,
and circuits, analog and digital systems, MEMs and bioMEMs,
nanotechnologies, numerical and computational simulation
and prototyping, biologically-inspired systems, digital
signal processing, advanced telecommunications, medical
imaging, and the exploration of fundamental issues in
wireless networking and devices.
This area of emphasis features efforts in quantum information
processing and transmission, with extensive new initiatives
in quantum computation, superconducting circuits and
understanding and exploiting quantum teleportation.
This theme comprises work in excitonics, studies in the absorption and emission of light, solar cells, disordered and low-dimensional materials, complex nanostructures, organic LEDs, nanowires, hybrid organic-inorganic materials, organic structures and devices, power electronics, signal level control circuits and electronics, system identification and control, continuum electromechanics, and high voltage and insulation research.
This theme includes significant efforts in integrated
photonic devices, modules and systems for applications
in communications and sensing, femtosecond optics, laser
technologies, photonic bandgap fibers and devices, materials
fabrication, laser medicine and medical imaging, and
millimeter-wave and terahertz devices.
This theme comprises research in fabricating surface
structures at nano scales, nanomagnetics and microphotonics,
periodic structures, superconductive materials, and
carbon nanotubes.
This theme encompasses thrusts in bio-inspired electronics
and neural prostheses for hearing and sight; nano-
and micro-technologies for understanding and manipulating
biological processes at the cellular and molecular
level; imaging and computational modeling of disease
and neuro-anatomical processes; and communication biophysics,
including language, speech, hearing and haptics, including
speech synthesis and recognition, sensory communication
in all modalities, and the physiology of auditory perception
and speech production.
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