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"RLE was a model for what enlightened government support of research and development can be in the university. It had so much more of a payoff than its investment; more than the government realized. It's an ideal way to support university research."

—Irwin M. Jacobs
RLE alumnus

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

Towards graphene plasmon-based free-electron infrared to X‑ray sources (Nature Photonics)
Posted November 23, 2015 at 6:34 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

Experimental observation of Weyl points (Science)
Posted July 16, 2015 at 5:01 pm

Fujimoto, Hu, and Joannopoulos win prestigious awards from the Optical Society
Posted March 19, 2015 at 1:35 pm

Crystalline silicon core fibres from aluminium core preforms (Nature Communications)
Posted February 20, 2015 at 10:29 am

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

John D. Joannopoulos wins 2015 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Posted December 10, 2014 at 12:25 pm

Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity (Science)
Posted March 27, 2014 at 3:38 pm

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