Monthly Archives (June 2015)

"The work was both theoretical and experimental, as well as basic and applied...This mix of the exploration of new ideas and their reduction to practice remains the hallmark of the present-day RLE."

—Jerome Wiesner
Third Director of RLE

Médard group wins best paper awards at ICC Conference in London
Posted June 29, 2015 at 4:39 pm

Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
Posted June 22, 2015 at 5:00 pm

MIT team creates ultracold molecules
Posted June 10, 2015 at 10:39 am

Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) — Manufacturing Innovation Institute Partner Day 2015
Posted June 8, 2015 at 3:23 pm

A new technique tunes friction between two surfaces, to the point where friction can vanish. MIT researchers developed a frictional interface at the atomic level. The blue corrugated surface represents an optical lattice; the red balls represent ions; the springs between them represent Coulomb forces between ions. By tuning the spacing of the ion crystal surface above to mismatch the bottom corrugated surface, friction disappears. The ions smoothly slide along the surface in a caterpillar-like motion. This discovery could aid in developing nanomachines, built from components the size of single molecules. Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT

Vanishing friction
Posted June 4, 2015 at 10:00 pm

Prototype of the device which will allow bacterial meningitis to be diagnosed in babies in seconds with a high-resolution ultrasound of the fontanelle. The team is now working on making it smaller. / Research Laboratory of Electronics

Ultrasound and algorithms to diagnose bacterial meningitis in babies
Posted June 3, 2015 at 1:40 pm

Teaming Up for Better Batteries
Posted June 2, 2015 at 2:07 pm

Translational Postdoctoral Fellows Xiaoting Jia and Michael Georgas are learning how to translate their research in RLE into private enterprises. Jia is working on fiber-based neural interface devices; Georgas is exploring integrated photonics. Samara Vise

Fast-Tracking Innovation for MIT’s Postdocs
Posted June 2, 2015 at 11:15 am

Bringing microgrids to rural villages
Posted June 1, 2015 at 10:51 am

A new tool measures the distance between phonon collisions
Posted June 1, 2015 at 10:50 am

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