Monthly Archives (December 2014)

"Big RLE was never a starchy place...[it included] a wide spectrum of scholars far from electronics but vital to the human activity of communication."

—Philip Morrison
Institute Professor

Plot of radiative quality factor as a function of wave vector for a photonic crystal slab. At five positions, this factor diverges to infinity, corresponding to special solutions of Maxwell equations called bound states in the continuum. These states have enough energy to escape to infinity but remain spatially localized. Courtesy of the researchers

Trapping light with a twister
Posted December 22, 2014 at 10:20 am

Mildred Dresselhaus selected for the IEEE’s highest honor
Posted December 19, 2014 at 4:59 pm

Optical image of the photonic integrated circuit that creates, filters, and manipulates photon pairs in an area of approximately 0.4 square millimeters. [Optical image, above, of the photonic integrated circuit that creates, filters, and manipulates photon pairs in an area of approximately 0.4 square millimeters. Courtesy N. Harris, Quantum Photonics Laboratory.

Integrated Source of Spectrally Filtered Correlated Photons for Large-Scale Quantum Photonic Systems (Phys. Rev. X)
Posted December 19, 2014 at 10:00 am

A Diagnostic Breath Test
Posted December 18, 2014 at 3:17 pm

Vivienne Sze receives DARPA 2014 Young Faculty Award (YFA)
Posted December 18, 2014 at 3:05 pm

Witricity included in CNN’s 10 startups to watch list
Posted December 18, 2014 at 10:40 am

Atoms of niobium and nitrogen in an ultrathin superconducting film that helped MIT researchers discover a universal law of superconductivity. Image: Yachin Ivry

New law for superconductors
Posted December 16, 2014 at 8:00 pm

Schematic of the Floquet-driven chiral edge state along the boundary of the laser-exposed region. Courtesy of the researchers

New findings could point the way to “valleytronics”
Posted December 16, 2014 at 10:59 am

Photo by Ed Quinn/courtesy Dresselhaus lab

Dresselhaus is selected for IEEE highest award
Posted December 15, 2014 at 2:00 pm

Universal scaling of the critical temperature for thin films near the superconducting-to-insulating transition (Physical Review)
Posted December 15, 2014 at 12:00 pm

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