RLE Recent Publications
Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor
Artwork created by Emily Theobald and Sampson WilcoxA. von Hoegen, T. Tai, C. J. Allington, M. Yeung, J. Pettine, M. H. Michael, E. Viñas Boström, X. Cui, K. Torres, A. E. Kossak, B. Lee, G. S. D. Beach, G. D. Gu, A. Rubio, P. Kim & N. Gedik DOI:…
Disentangling Environmental Effects on Perovskite Solar Cell Performance via Interpretable Machine Learning
Artwork created by Sampson WilcoxTianran Liu, Nicky Evans, Kangyu Ji, Ronaldo Lee, Aaron Zhu, Vinn Nguyen, James Serdy, Elizabeth M. Wall, Yongli Lu, Florian A. Formica, Moungi G. Bawendi, Quinn C. Burlingame, Yueh-Lin Loo, Vladimir Bulović, Tonio Buonassisi DOI:…
Single-shot matrix-matrix photonic processor based on spatial-spectral hypermultiplexed parallel diffraction
Artwork by Sampson WilcoxChao Luan, Ronald Davis III, Zaijun Chen, Dirk Englund & Ryan Hamerly DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026–68452‑x Abstract: The ever-increasing data demand craves advancements in high-speed and energy-efficient computing hardware. Analog optical…
Disaggregated machine learning via in-physicscomputing at radio frequency
Artwork by Sampson WilcoxZhihui Gao, Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Kfir Sulimany, Dirk Englund, Tingjun Chen DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz0817 Abstract: Modern edge devices, such as cameras, drones, and internet-of-things nodes, rely on machine learning to enable a wide range of…
Leveraging Qubit Loss Detection in Fault-Tolerant Quantum Algorithms
Image Credit: Photograph by Sampson WilcoxGefen Baranes, Madelyn Cain,J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Dolev Bluvstein, Josiah Sinclair, Vladan Vuletić, Hengyun Zhou, and Mikhail D. Lukin DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/ycwc-3myc Abstract: Qubit loss errors constitute a…
Extracting the core and cladding contributions to fluorescence and Raman emission in integrated photonic waveguides
Andres Garcia Coleto, Henry Crawford-Eng, Nathan Tyndall, Alin Antohe, Soumen Kar, Lewis Carpenter, Todd Stievater, and Jelena Notaros DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.575183 Abstract: Minimizing background optical emission originating from waveguides is critical for…
Stochastic nanomagnets as current digitizers for efficient probabilistic machine learning
Dooyong Koh, Ethan G. Rogers, Kshemal K. Gupte, Qiuyuan Wang, Brooke C. McGoldrick, Jungsoo Lee, Marc A. Baldo, Cheng Wang, and Luqiao Liu DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/s86j-5jcr Abstract: The rapidly growing demand for more efficient artificial intelligence (AI)…
Nonlinear, Hybrid, Multi-Core Magnetic Energy Harvesting
Daniel Monagle, Steven B. Leeb DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2025.3607641 Abstract: Current transformer magnetic energy harvesters scavenge energy from the magnetic fields around ac transmission lines to power sensor packages. Often, magnetic cores with either extremely high…
Ultrabroadband air-dielectric double-chirped mirrors for laser frequency combs
Tianyi Zeng, Yamac Dikmelik, Feng Xie, Kevin Lascola, David Burghoff & Qing Hu DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025–01961‑4 Abstract: Dispersion engineering is critical for the creation of integrated broadband laser frequency combs. In the long wavelength…
Towards scalable screening for the early detection of Parkinson’s disease: validation of an iPad-based eye movement assessment system against a clinical-grade eye tracker
Image Credit: Artwork by Michael Hurley, Research Laboratory of ElectronicsJamie Koerner, Erin Zou, Jessica A. Karl, Cynthia Poon, Leo Verhagen Metman, Charles G. Sodini, Vivienne Sze, Fabian J. David & Thomas HeldtDOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-025–01079‑9…
Coherent and Incoherent Light Scattering by Single-Atom Wave Packets
Vitaly Fedoseev, Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), Yu-Kun Lu , Yoo Kyung Lee, Jiahao Lyu, and Wolfgang Ketterle DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/zwhd-1k2t Abstract: We study light scattering of atomic wave packets in free space and discuss the results in terms of atom-photon…
Electrical switching of a p‑wave magnet
Qian Song, Srdjan Stavrić, Paolo Barone, Andrea Droghetti, Daniil S. Antonenko, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Connor A. Occhialini, Batyr Ilyas, Emre Ergeçen, Nuh Gedik, Sang-Wook Cheong, Rafael M. Fernandes, Silvia Picozzi & Riccardo Comin DOI:…
Signatures of chiral superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene
Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Zach Hadjri, Lihan Shi, Zhenghan Wu, Wei Xu, Yuxuan Yao, Armel A. Cotten, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Henok Weldeyesus, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Shenyong Ye, Muyang Zhou, Haoyang Liu, Gang Shi, Zhenqi Hua, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Peng…
A superconducting full-wave bridge rectifier
Matteo Castellani, Owen Medeiros, Alessandro Buzzi, Reed A. Foster, Marco Colangelo & Karl K. Berggren DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025–01376‑4 Abstract: Superconducting thin-film electronics can offer low power consumption, fast operating speeds and interfacing…
Multifunctional bioelectronics for brain–body circuits
Authors: Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Claudia Cea & Polina Anikeeva Nature Reviews Bioengineering DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-025–00289‑3 Abstract: The brain continuously receives, integrates and responds to an influx of sensory signals emerging from the…
A single-fibre computer enables textile networks and distributed inference’
Image credit: Braiding a computer fiber with a combination of metal and textile yarns (Hamilton Osoy, IFM)Nikhil Gupta, Henry Cheung, Syamantak Payra, Gabriel Loke, Jenny Li, Yongyi Zhao, Latika Balachander, Ella Son, Vivian Li, Samuel Kravitz, Sehar Lohawala, John…
Four-dimensional conserved topological charge vectors in plasmonic quasicrystals
Shai Tsesses, Pascal Dreher, David Janoschka, Alexander Neuhaus, Kobi Cohen,Tim C. Meiler, Tomer Bucher, Shay Sapir, Bettina Frank, Timothy J. Davis ‚Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, Harald Giessen, Guy Bartal DOI: 10.1126/science.adt2495 Editor’s summary: The…
Superfluid stiffness of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Miuko Tanaka, Joel Î‑j. Wang, Thao H. Dinh, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Sameia Zaman, Max Hays, Aziza Almanakly, Bharath Kannan, David K. Kim, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson,…
Terahertz field-induced metastable magnetization near criticality in FePS3
Batyr Ilyas, Tianchuang Luo, Alexander von Hoegen, Emil Viñas Boström, Zhuquan Zhang, Jaena Park, Junghyun Kim, Je-Geun Park, Keith A. Nelson, Angel Rubio & Nuh Gedik DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024–08226‑x Abstract: Controlling the functional properties of quantum…
Deep and dynamic metabolic and structural imaging in living tissues
Kunzan Liu, Honghao Cao, Kasey Shashaty, Li-Yu Yu, Sarah Spitz,Francesca Michela Pramotton, Zhengpeng Wan, Ellen L. Kan, Erin N. Tevonian, Manuel Levy,Eva Lendaro, Roger D. Kamm, Linda G. Griffith, Fan Wang, Tong Qiu, Sixian You DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp2438 Abstract:…
Spiral integrated optical phased arrays for tunable near-field-focusing emission
D. M. DeSantis, M. R. Torres, A. Garcia Coleto, B. M. Mazur, S. Corsetti, M. Notaros, and J. Notaros, “Spiral Integrated Optical Phased Arrays for Tunable Near-Field-Focusing Emission,” Optics Express 32(25), 44567–44580…
On-chip petahertz electronics for single-shot phase detection
An international team of researchers including members of the Quantum-Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group at MIT, Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY, Germany), Max-Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Germany) and WiredSense published a manuscript…
Theory of Quantum Anomalous Hall Phases in Pentalayer Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Structures
Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.206502 Abstract: Remarkable recent experiments on the moiré structure formed by pentalayer rhombohedral graphene aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride substrate report the discovery of a zero…
Magnetoelectric nanodiscs enable wireless transgene-free neuromodulation
Ye Ji Kim, Noah Kent, Emmanuel Vargas Paniagua, Nicolette Driscoll, Anthony Tabet, Florian Koehler, Elian Malkin, Ethan Frey, Marie Manthey, Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Taylor M. Cannon, Keisuke Nagao, David Mankus, Margaret Bisher, Giovanni de Nola, Abigail…
Directional emission of a readout resonator for qubit measurement
Alec Yen, Yufeng Ye, Kaidong Peng, Jennifer Wang, Gregory Cunningham, Michael Gingras, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Hannah Stickler, Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, and Kevin P. O’Brien doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.034035 Abstract: We propose and demonstrate…
Lightwave-electronic harmonic frequency mixing
Matthew Yeung, Lu-Ting Chou, Marco Turchetti, Felix Ritzkowsky, Karl K. Berggren, Philip D. Keathley DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adq0642 Abstract: Electronic frequency mixers are fundamental building blocks of electronic systems. Harmonic frequency mixing in particular enables…
Mechanically-flexible wafer-scale integrated-photonics fabrication platform
M. Notaros, T. Dyer, A. Garcia Coleto, A. Hattori, K. Fealey, S. Kruger, and J. Notaros https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024–61055‑w Abstract: The field of integrated photonics has advanced rapidly due to wafer-scale fabrication, with integrated-photonics platforms and…
Developing 3D Models of Atom-Like Defect Spin Memories in Crystals for Quantum Technology Research and Education
Yong Hu, Steven Nagle, Yuqin Duan, Hanfeng Wang and Dirk Englund https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00343 Abstract: The development of quantum technologies, including quantum computers and networks, requires entanglement distribution across individually…
The UmboMic: A PVDF Cantilever Microphone
Aaron J. Yeiser, Emma F. Wawrzynek, John Z. Zhang, Lukas Graf, Christopher I. McHugh, Ioannis Kymissis, Elizabeth S. Olson, Jeffrey H. Lang, Hideko Heidi Nakajima DOI: 10.1088/1361–6439/ad5c6d Abstract: Objective: We present the “UmboMic,” a prototype piezoelectric…
Large quantum anomalous Hall effect in spin-orbit proximitized rhombohedral graphene
Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Yuxuan Yao, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Chiho Yoon,Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Fan Zhang, Long Ju DOI: 10.1126/science.adk9749 Abstract: The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a robust topological phenomenon that…
Regulating Oxygen Activity of Perovskites to Promote Activity and Selectivity for Methanol Oxidation to Formaldehyde
Karthik Akkiraju, Reshma Rao, Jonathan Hwang, Livia Giordano, Xiao Renshaw Wang, Ethan Crumlin, David S. Weinberger, and Yang Shao-Horn https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c01222 Abstract: Rational designs of metal oxides are needed to selectively oxidize methanol…
Probing entanglement in a 2D hard-core Bose–Hubbard lattice
Amir H. Karamlou, Ilan T. Rosen, Sarah E. Muschinske, Cora N. Barrett, Agustin Di Paolo, Leon Ding, Patrick M. Harrington, Max Hays, Rabindra Das, David K. Kim, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Meghan Schuldt, Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Simon…
High-Performance, Low-Cost, Additively Manufactured Electrospray Ion Sources for Mass Spectrometry
Alex Kachkine, and Luis Fernando Velásquez-García https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.3c00409 Abstract: We report novel 3D-printed electrospray sources for mass spectrometry (MS) that produce twice the signal strength of their mainstream counterparts. Leveraging 3D printing…
Reduced recombination via tunable surface fields in perovskite thin films
Reduced recombination via tunable surface fields in perovskite thin films Dane W. deQuilettes, Jason J. Yoo, Roberto Brenes, Felix Utama Kosasih, Madeleine Laitz, Benjia Dak Dou, Daniel J. Graham, Kevin Ho, Yangwei Shi, Seong Sik Shin, Caterina Ducati, Moungi G.…
Three-dimensional, soft magnetic-cored solenoids via multi-material extrusion
Jorge Cañada, Hyeonseok Kim & Luis Fernando Velásquez-García https://doi.org/10.1080/17452759.2024.2310046 Abstract: This study reports fully 3D-printed, three-dimensional, soft magnetic-cored solenoids that generate three times the largest magnetic fields…
Thermography of the superfluid transition in a strongly interacting Fermi gas
Zhenjie Yan, Parth B. Patel, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Chris J. Vale, Richard J. Fletcher, Martin W. Zwierlein https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg3430 Abstract: Heat transport can serve as a fingerprint identifying different states of matter. In a normal…
Label-Free and High-Throughput Removal of Residual Undifferentiated Cells From iPSC-Derived Spinal Cord Progenitor Cells
Tan Dai Nguyen, Wai Hon Chooi, Hyungkook Jeon, Jiahui Chen, Jerome Tan, Daniel N Roxby, Cheryl Yi-Pin Lee, Shi-Yan Ng, Sing Yian Chew, Jongyoon Han Author Notes https://doi.org/10.1093/stcltm/szae002 Abstract:The transplantation of spinal cord progenitor cells (SCPCs)…
Rule the Joule: An Energy Management Design Guide for Self-Powered Sensors
Daniel Monagle, Eric A. Ponce, Steven B. Leeb https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10341273 Abstract: Energy harvesters present the exciting opportunity to create sensor nodes that can power or recharge themselves. Given the intermittent nature of available ambient…
Van der Waals integration beyond the limits of van der Waals forces using adhesive matrix transfer
Peter F. Satterthwaite, Weikun Zhu, Patricia Jastrzebska-Perfect, Melbourne Tang, Sarah O. Spector, Hongze Gao, Hikari Kitadai, Ang-Yu Lu, Qishuo Tan, Shin-Yi Tang, Yu-Lun Chueh, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin Shan Lue, Jing Kong, Xi Ling & Farnaz Niroui …
Correlated insulator and Chern insulators in pentalayer rhombohedral-stacked graphene
Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Giovanni Scuri, Jiho Sung, Jue Wang, Tianyi Han, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hongkun Park & Long Ju https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023–01520‑1 Abstract: Rhombohedral-stacked multilayer graphene hosts a pair of flat…
Superconductivity and strong interactions in a tunable moiré quasicrystal
Aviram Uri, Sergio C. de la Barrera, Mallika T. Randeria, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Trithep Devakul, Philip J. D. Crowley, Nisarga Paul, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ron Lifshitz, Liang Fu, Raymond C. Ashoori & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero…
Low-thermal-budget synthesis of monolayer molybdenum disulfide for silicon back-end-of-line integration on a 200 mm platform
Jiadi Zhu, Ji-Hoon Park, Steven A. Vitale, Wenjun Ge, Gang Seob Jung, Jiangtao Wang, Mohamed Mohamed, Tianyi Zhang, Maitreyi Ashok, Mantian Xue, Xudong Zheng, Zhien Wang, Jonas Hansryd, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Jing Kong & Tomás Palacios DOI:…
Electrical switching of a bistable moiré superconductor
Dahlia R. Klein, Li-Qiao Xia, David MacNeill, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero doi: 10.1038/s41565-022–01314‑x Abstract: Electrical control of superconductivity is critical for nanoscale superconducting circuits including cryogenic memory…
Post-hoc Uncertainty Learning using a Dirichlet Meta-Model
Maohao Shen, Yuheng Bu, Prasanna Sattigeri, Soumya Ghosh, Subhro Das, Gregory Wornell doi: arXiv:2212.07359v1 Abstract: It is known that neural networks have the problem of being over-confident when directly using the output label distribution to generate uncertainty…
Two-Photon Interface of Nuclear Spins Based on the Optonuclear Quadrupolar Effect
Haowei Xu, Changhao Li, Guoqing Wang, Hua Wang, Hao Tang, Ariel Rebekah Barr, Paola Cappellaro, and Ju Li doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011017 Abstract: Photons and nuclear spins are two well-known building blocks in quantum information science and technology. Establishing…
Broadband squeezed microwaves and amplification with a Josephson travelling-wave parametric amplifier
Jack Y. Qiu, Arne Grimsmo, Kaidong Peng, Bharath Kannan, Benjamin Lienhard, Youngkyu Sung, Philip Krantz, Vladimir Bolkhovsky, Greg Calusine, David Kim, Alex Melville, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Jonilyn Yoder, Mollie E. Schwartz, Terry P. Orlando, Irfan Siddiqi, Simon…
Vertical full-colour micro-LEDs via 2D materials-based layer transfer
Jiho Shin, Hyunseok Kim, Suresh Sundaram, Junseok Jeong, Bo-In Park, Celesta S. Chang, Joonghoon Choi, Taemin Kim, Mayuran Saravanapavanantham, Kuangye Lu, Sungkyu Kim, Jun Min Suh, Ki Seok Kim, Min-Kyu Song, Yunpeng Liu, Kuan Qiao, Jae Hwan Kim, Yeongin Kim, Ji-Hoon…
Data Centers on Wheels: Emissions from Computing Onboard Autonomous Vehicles
S. Sudhakar, V. Sze, S. Karaman, “Data Centers on Wheels: Emissions from Computing Onboard Autonomous Vehicles,” to appear in IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Environmentally Sustainable Computing. [ PDF ] Abstract: While much attention has been paid to data…
Sparseloop: An Analytical Approach To Sparse Tensor Accelerator Modeling
Y. N. Wu, P. Tsai, A. Parashar, V. Sze, J. Emer, “Sparseloop: An Analytical Approach to Sparse Tensor Accelerator Modeling,” ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2022. [ paper PDF | project website LINK | code github ] MICRO 2022…
Memory-Efficient Gaussian Fitting for Depth Images in Real Time
P. Z. X. Li, S. Karaman, V. Sze, “Memory-Efficient Gaussian Fitting for Depth Images in Real Time,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2022. [ PDF ] Abstract: Computing consumes a significant portion of energy in many robotics…
Uncertainty from Motion for DNN Monocular Depth Estimation
S. Sudhakar, V. Sze, S. Karaman, “Uncertainty from Motion for DNN Monocular Depth Estimation,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2022. [ PDF ] Abstract: Deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) for monocular depth estimation in…
App-Based Saccade Latency and Directional Error Determination Across the Adult Age Spectrum
H.-Y. Lai, G. Saavedra-Pena, C. G. Sodini, T. Heldt, V. Sze, “App-based saccade latency and directional error determination across the adult age spectrum,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 1029 – 1039, February 2022. [ PDF ]…
Efficient Computation of Map-scale Continuous Mutual Information on Chip in Real Time
K. Gupta, P. Z. X. Li, S. Karaman, V. Sze, “Efficient Computation of Map-scale Continuous Mutual Information on Chip in Real Time,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2021. [ PDF ] Abstract: Exploration tasks are…
NetAdaptV2: Efficient Neural Architecture Search with Fast Super-Network Training and Architecture Optimization
T.-J. Yang, Y.-L. Liao, V. Sze, “NetAdaptV2: Efficient neural architecture search with fast super-network training and architecture optimization,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021. [ paper PDF | poster PDF | slides PDF |…
Nanosecond protonic programmable resistors for analog deep learning
Murat Onen, Nicolas Emond, Baoming Wang, Difei Zhang, Frances M. Ross, Ju Li,Bilge Yildiz2, Jesús A. del Alamo DOI: 10.1126/science.abp8064 Abstract: Nanoscale ionic programmable resistors for analog deep learning are 1000 times smaller than biological cells, but it…
Sensing of Arbitrary-Frequency Fields Using a Quantum Mixer
Guoqing Wang (王国庆), Yi-Xiang Liu (刘仪襄), Jennifer M. Schloss, Scott T. Alsid, Danielle A. Braje, and Paola Cappellaro DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021061 Abstract: Quantum sensors such as spin defects in diamond have achieved excellent performance by combining high…
Cation-Dependent Multielectron Kinetics of Metal Oxide Splitting
Jaclyn R. Lunger, Naomi Lutz, Jiayu Peng, Michal Bajdich, and Yang Shao-Horn DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00602 Abstract: Direct electrolytic extraction of metals from metal oxides is a promising process for the sustainable production of metals. In this work, we…
Tunable metal hydroxide–organic frameworks for catalysing oxygen evolution
Shuai Yuan, Jiayu Peng, Bin Cai, Zhehao Huang, Angel T. Garcia-Esparza, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yirui Zhang, Livia Giordano, Karthik Akkiraju, Yun Guang Zhu, René Hübner, Xiaodong Zou, Yuriy Román-Leshkov & Yang Shao-Horn DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022–01199‑0 Abstract: The…
Formulation and Emulation of Quantum-Inspired Dynamical Systems With Classical Analog Circuits
A. J. Cressman, W. Wattanapanitch, I. Chuang, and R. Sarpeshkar DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01481 Abstract: Quantum dynamical systems are capable of powerful computation but are hard to emulate on digital computers. We show that four novel analog circuit parts can emulate the…
A synthetic monopole source of Kalb-Ramond field in diamond
Mo Chen, Changhao Li, Giandomenico Palumbo, Yan-Qing Zhu, Nathan Goldman, and Paola Cappellaro DOI: 10.1126/science.abe6437 Abstract: Magnetic monopoles play a central role in areas of physics that range from electromagnetism to topological matter. String theory…
Thermally-driven reactivity of Li0.35La0.55TiO3 solid electrolyte with LiCoO2 cathode
Subhash Chandra, Younggyu Kim, Daniele Vivona, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Adrian Hunt, Christoph Schlueter, Jeong Beom Lee, Yang Shao-Horn and Bilge Yildiz DOI: 10.1039/D1TA08853J Abstract: A critical bottleneck for developing successful solid-state batteries is minimizing…
Soft-lock drawing of super-aligned carbon nanotube bundles for nanometre electrical contacts
Yunfan Guo, Enzheng Shi, Jiadi Zhu, Pin-Chun Shen, Jiangtao Wang, Yuxuan Lin, Yunwei Mao, Shibin Deng, Baini Li, Ji-Hoon Park, Ang-Yu Lu, Shuchen Zhang, Qingqing Ji, Zhe Li, Chenguang Qiu, Song Qiu, Qingwen Li, Letian Dou, Yue Wu, Jin Zhang, Tomás Palacios, Anyuan…
Hexagonal boron nitride as a low-loss dielectric for superconducting quantum circuits and qubits
Joel I‑J. Wang, Megan A. Yamoah, Qing Li, Amir H. Karamlou, Thao Dinh, Bharath Kannan, Jochen Braumüller, David Kim, Alexander J. Melville, Sarah E. Muschinske, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Kyle Serniak, Youngkyu Sung, Roni Winik, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Mollie E.…
Molecular Platform for Fast Low-Voltage Nanoelectromechanical Switching
Jinchi Han, Zachary Nelson, Matthew R. Chua, Timothy M. Swager, Farnaz Niroui, Jeffrey H. Lang, and Vladimir Bulovic https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03214 Abstract: The use of molecules as active components to build nanometer-scale devices inspires…
Carbon Nanotubes for Radiation-Tolerant Electronics
Pritpal S. Kanhaiya, Andrew Yu, Richard Netzer, William Kemp, Derek Doyle, Max M. Shulaker https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c04194 Abstract: Electronics for space applications have stringent requirements on both performance and radiation tolerance. The constant…
Designing artificial two-dimensional landscapes via atomic-layer substitution
Yunfan Guo, Yuxuan Lin, Kaichen Xie, Biao Yuan, Jiadi Zhu, Pin-Chun Shen, Ang-Yu Lu, Cong Su, Enzheng Shi, Kunyan Zhang, Changan HuangFu, Haowei Xu, Zhengyang Cai, Ji-Hoon Park, Qingqing Ji, Jiangtao Wang, Xiaochuan Dai, Xuezeng Tian, Shengxi Huang, Letian Dou, Liying…
On-chip sampling of optical fields with attosecond resolution
Mina R. Bionta, Felix Ritzkowsky, Marco Turchetti, Yujia Yang, Dario Cattozzo Mor, William P. Putnam, Franz X. Kärtner, Karl K. Berggren & Phillip D. Keathley DOI: 10.1038/s41566-021–00792‑0 Abstract: We demonstrate an on-chip, optoelectronic device capable of…
Universal Nonadiabatic Control of Small-Gap Superconducting Qubits
Daniel L. Campbell, Yun-Pil Shim, Bharath Kannan, Roni Winik, David K. Kim, Alexander Melville, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Charles Tahan, Simon Gustavsson, and William D. Oliver DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041051 Abstract: Resonant transverse driving of a…
Enabling Adaptive Robot-Environment Interaction and Context-Aware Artificial Somatosensory Reflexes through Sensor-Embedded Fibers
Syamantak Payra, Gabriel Loke, and Yoel Fink Link to paper Awarded Second Place Best Paper Award in the MIT IEEE Undergraduate Research Technology Conference Abstract: Robotic control systems have conventionally lacked context-aware sensory capabilities and rapid…
How to Evaluate Deep Neural Network Processors: TOPS/W (Alone) Considered Harmful
Vivienne Sze, Yu-Hsin Chen, Tien-Ju Yang, and Joel S. Emer DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2020.3002140 Abstract: A significant amount of specialized hardware has been developed for processing deep neural networks (DNNs) in both academia and industry. This article aims to highlight…
FSMI: Fast computation of Shannon Mutual Information for information-theoretic mapping
Zhengdong Zhang, Theia Henderson, Sertac Karaman, and Vivienne Sze DOI: 10.1177/0278364920921941 Abstract: Exploration tasks are embedded in many robotics applications, such as search and rescue and space exploration. Information-based exploration algorithms aim to…
Low Power Depth Estimation of Rigid Objects for Time-of-Flight Imaging
James Noraky, Vivienne Sze DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2907904 Abstract: Depth sensing is useful in a variety of applications that range from augmented reality to robotics. Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are appealing because they obtain dense depth measurements with…
Large-scale integration of artificial atoms in hybrid photonic circuits
Noel H. Wan, Tsung-Ju Lu, Kevin C. Chen, Michael P. Walsh, Matthew E. Trusheim, Lorenzo De Santis, Eric A. Bersin, Isaac B. Harris, Sara L. Mouradian, Ian R. Christen, Edward S. Bielejec & Dirk Englund DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020‑2441‑3 Abstract: A central challenge…
Magnetic Vortex Nanodiscs Enable Remote Magnetomechanical Neural Stimulation
Danijela Gregurec, Alexander W. Senko, Andrey Chuvilin, Pooja D. Reddy, Ashwin Sankararaman, Dekel Rosenfeld, Po-Han Chiang, Francisco Garcia, Ian Tafel, Georgios Varnavides, Eugenia Ciocan, and Polina Anikeeva DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c00562 Abstract: Magnetic…
Light phase detection with on-chip petahertz electronic networks
Yujia Yang, Marco Turchetti, Praful Vasireddy, William P. Putnam, Oliver Karnbach, Alberto Nardi, Franz X. Kärtner, Karl K. Berggren & Phillip D. Keathley DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020–17250‑0 Abstract: Ultrafast, high-intensity light-matter interactions lead to…
Synergistic Roll‐to‐Roll Transfer and Doping of CVD‐Graphene Using Parylene for Ambient‐Stable and Ultra‐Lightweight Photovoltaics
Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli, Giovanni Azzellino, Marek Hempel, Ang-Yu Lu, Francisco J. Martin-Martinez, Jiayuan Zhao,Jingjie Yeo, Tomas Palacios, Markus J. Buehler & Jing Kong DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202001924 Abstract: A roll-to-roll (R2R) transfer technique is employed…
Fabrication of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors in commercial silicon manufacturing facilities
Mindy D. Bishop, Gage Hills, Tathagata Srimani, Christian Lau, Denis Murphy, Samuel Fuller, Jefford Humes, Anthony Ratkovich, Mark Nelson & Max M. Shulaker DOI: 10.1038/s41928-020‑0419‑7 Abstract: Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) are a promising…
Operando identification of site-dependent water oxidation activity on ruthenium dioxide single-crystal surfaces
Reshma R. Rao, Manuel J. Kolb, Livia Giordano, Anders Filsøe Pedersen, Yu Katayama, Jonathan Hwang, Apurva Mehta, Hoydoo You, Jaclyn R. Lunger, Hua Zhou, Niels Bendtsen Halck, Tejs Vegge, Ib Chorkendorff, Ifan E. L. Stephens & Yang Shao-Horn DOI:…
Photon-photon interactions in dynamically coupled cavities
Mikkel Heuck, Kurt Jacobs, and Dirk R. Englund DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.101.042322 Abstract: We study theoretically the interaction between two photons in a nonlinear cavity. The photons are absorbed into the cavity by an effective tuning of its input-output coupling via…
Controlled-Phase Gate Using Dynamically Coupled Cavities and Optical Nonlinearities
Mikkel Heuck, Kurt Jacobs, and Dirk R. Englund DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.160501 Abstract: We show that relatively simple integrated photonic circuits have the potential to realize a high fidelity deterministic controlled-phase gate between photonic qubits using…
Balancing Actuation and Computing Energy in Motion Planning
Soumya Sudhakar, Sertac Karaman, Vivienne Sze PDF Abstract: We study a novel class of motion planning problems, inspired by emerging low-energy robotic vehicles, such as insect-size flyers, chip-size satellites, and high-endurance autonomous blimps, for which the…
An Efficient and Continuous Approach to Information-Theoretic Exploration
Theia Henderson, Vivienne Sze, Sertac Karaman PDF Abstract: Exploration of unknown environments is embedded and essential in many robotics applications. Traditional algorithms, that decide where to explore by computing the expected information gain of an incomplete…
An Architecture-Level Energy and Area Estimator for Processing-In-Memory Accelerator Designs
Yannan Nellie Wu, Vivienne Sze, Joel S. Emer PDF Abstract: Processing-in-memory (PIM) deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, which aim to improve energy/area efficiency of DNN processing by integrating computation into data storage, have gained popularity in recent…
Heterogeneous integration of singlecrystalline complex-oxide membranes
Hyun S. Kum, Hyungwoo Lee, Sungkyu Kim, Shane Lindemann, Wei Kong, Kuan Qiao, Peng Chen, Julian Irwin, June Hyuk Lee, Saien Xie, Shruti Subramanian, Jaewoo Shim, Sang-Hoon Bae, Chanyeol Choi, Luigi Ranno, Seungju Seo, Sangho Lee, Jackson Bauer, Huashan Li, Kyusang…
Variational quantum unsampling on a quantum photonic processor
Jacques Carolan, Masoud Mohseni, Jonathan P. Olson, Mihika Prabhu, Changchen Chen, Darius Bunandar, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Nicholas C. Harris, Franco N. C. Wong, Michael Hochberg, Seth Lloyd & Dirk Englund doi:10.1038/s41567-019‑0747‑6 Abstract: A promising route…
A Spectral Approach to Model-based Noninvasive Intracranial Pressure Estimation
Rohan Jaishankar, Andrea Fanelli, Aristotelis Filippidis, Thai Vu, James Holsapple, and Thomas Heldt DOI 10.1109/JBHI.2019.2961403 Abstract: Intracranial pressure (ICP) normally ranges from 5 to 15 mmHg. Elevation in ICP is an important clinical indicator of…
A general theoretical and experimental framework for nanoscale electromagnetism
Yi Yang, Di Zhu1, Wei Yan, Akshay Agarwal, Mengjie Zheng, John D. Joannopoulos, Philippe Lalanne, Thomas Christensen, Karl K. Berggren & Marin Soljačić DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019‑1803‑1 Abstract: The macroscopic electromagnetic boundary conditions, which have been…
A CMOS-integrated quantum sensor based on nitrogen–vacancy centres
Donggyu Kim, Mohamed I. Ibrahim, Christopher Foy, Matthew E. Trusheim, Ruonan Han & Dirk R. Englund DOI: 10.1038/ s41928-019‑0275‑5 Abstract: The nitrogen–vacancy (NV) centre in diamond can be used as a solid-state quantum sensor with applications in magnetometry,…
Engineering Phage Host-Range and Suppressing Bacterial Resistance through Phage Tail Fiber Mutagenesis
Kevin Yehl, Sebastien Lemire, Andrew C. Yang, Marcelo Der Torossian Torres, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Timothy K. Lu DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.09.015 Abstract: The rapid emergence of antibiotic-resistant infections is prompting increased interest in phage-based…
Remotely controlled chemomagnetic modulation of targeted neural circuits
Siyuan Rao, Ritchie Chen, Ava A. LaRocca, Michael G. Christiansen, Alexander W. Senko, Cindy H. Shi, Po-Han Chiang, Georgios Varnavides, Jian Xue, Yang Zhou, Seongjun Park, Ruihua Ding, Junsang Moon, Guoping Feng & Polina Anikeeva DOI: 10.1038/ s41565-019‑0521‑z…
Towards integrated tunable all-silicon free-electron light sources
Charles Roques-Carmes, Steven E. Kooi, Yi Yang, Aviram Massuda, Phillip D. Keathley, Aun Zaidi, Yujia Yang, John D. Joannopoulos, Karl K. Berggren, Ido Kaminer & Marin Soljačić doi:10.1038/s41467-019–11070‑7 Abstract: Extracting light from silicon is a…
A high-throughput screening and computation platform for identifying synthetic promoters with enhanced cell-state specificity (SPECS)
Ming-Ru Wu, Lior Nissim, Doron Stupp, Erez Pery, Adina Binder-Nissim, Karen Weisinger, Casper Enghuus, Sebastian R. Palacios, Melissa Humphrey, Zhizhuo Zhang, Eva Maria Novoa, Manolis Kellis, Ron Weiss, Samuel D. Rabkin, Yuval Tabach & Timothy K. Lu DOI:…
Large-Scale Optical Neural Networks Based on Photoelectric Multiplication
Ryan Hamerly, Liane Bernstein, Alexander Sludds, Marin Soljačić, and Dirk Englund DOI:10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021032 Abstract: Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper…
Identifying a creak probability threshold for an irregular pitch period detection algorithm
Olivia Murton, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Jeung-Yoon Choi, and Daryush D. Mehta https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5100911 Abstract: Irregular pitch periods (IPPs) are associated with grammatically, pragmatically, and clinically significant types of nonmodal phonation, but…
Low Power Adaptive Time-Of-Flight Imaging For Multiple Rigid Objects
J. Noraky, C. Mathy, A. Cheng, V. Sze [ PDF ] Abstract: Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are becoming increasingly popular for many mobile applications. To obtain accurate depth maps, TOF cameras must emit many pulses of light, which consumes a lot of power and lowers…
High-throughput Computation of Shannon Mutual Information on Chip
P. Z. X. Li*, Z. Zhang*, S. Karaman, V. Sze [ paper PDF | supplementary material PDF ] Abstract: Exploration problems are fundamental to robotics, arising in various domains, ranging from search and rescue to space exploration. Many effective exploration algorithms…
Large-Scale Optical Neural-Network Accelerators based on Coherent Detection
Ryan Hamerly, Alex Sludds, Liane Bernstein, Marin Soljačić, and Dirk Englund DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021032 Abstract: We present a coherent optical neural-network accelerator based on homodyne detection that is scalable to large (N > 1000) networks,…
Measuring Saccade Latency Using Smartphone Cameras
Hsin-Yu Lai, Gladynel Saavedra-Pena, Student Member, Charles G. Sodini, Vivienne Sze, Thomas Heldt doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512281 Abstract: Accurate quantification of neurodegenerative disease progression is an ongoing challenge that complicates efforts to understand…
Low Power Depth Estimation of Rigid Objects for Time-of-Flight Imaging
James Noraky, Vivienne Sze doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2017.8296655 Abstract: Depth sensing is used in a variety of applications that range from augmented reality to robotics. One way to measure depth is with a time-of-flight (TOF) camera, which obtains depth by emitting light…
Eyeriss v2: A Flexible Accelerator for Emerging Deep Neural Networks on Mobile Devices
Yu-Hsin Chen, Tien-Ju Yang, Joel Emer, and Vivienne Sze doi: arXiv:1807.07928 Abstract: The design of DNNs has increasingly focused on reducing the computational complexity in addition to improving accuracy. While emerging DNNs tend to have fewer weights and…