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"The keys to RLE’s success have been an insistence on fundamental understanding, an openness to multiple viewpoints, the tight coupling of theory and experiment, motivation through a focus on applications, and an ongoing interaction between the development of probe techniques and the discovery of new phenomena."

—Jonathan Allen
Sixth Director of RLE

Strengthening electron-triggered light emission
Posted January 5, 2023 at 8:40 am
More sensitive X‑ray imaging
Posted February 24, 2022 at 3:27 pm
New exotic phenomena seen in photonic crystals
Posted January 16, 2018 at 11:32 am
Study opens new realms of light-matter interaction
Posted July 15, 2016 at 10:05 am
A proof-of-concept device built by MIT researchers demonstrates the principle of a two-stage process to make incandescent bulbs more efficient. This device already achieves efficiency comparable to some compact fluorescent and LED bulbs. Courtesy of the researchers
A nanophotonic comeback for incandescent bulbs?
Posted January 11, 2016 at 4:00 pm
By using plasmons to “wiggle” a free electron in a sheet of graphene, researchers have developed a new method for generating X-rays. In this image of one of their simulations, the color and height represent the intensity of radiation (with blue the lowest intensity and red the highest), at a moment in time just after an electron (grey sphere) moving close to the surface generates a pulse. Courtesy of the researchers
A new way to make X‑rays
Posted November 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm
The gyroid surface with a dime on top. Image: Ling Lu and Qinghui Yan
Long-sought phenomenon finally detected
Posted July 16, 2015 at 5:05 pm
Fujimoto, Hu, and Joannopoulos win prestigious awards from the Optical Society
Posted March 19, 2015 at 1:35 pm
Graduate student Chong Hou holds a bag of drawn fibers. The fibers are as thin as 100 micrometers in diameter, and the material coating further enhances the strength of the fibers. Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT
Fibers made by transforming materials
Posted February 20, 2015 at 8:23 am
Photo: Franklin E. W. Hadley
John D. Joannopoulos wins 2015 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Posted December 10, 2014 at 12:25 pm

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