Deep learning with light

A new method uses optics to accelerate machine-learning computations on smart speakers and other low-power connected devices.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 20, 2022 ~8 min

Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your body

Quantum entanglement is the stuff of sci-fi, advanced physics research and, increasingly, technology used by governments, banks and the military.

Nicholas Peters, Joint Faculty, University of Tennessee • conversation
Oct. 7, 2022 ~7 min


Engineers repurpose 19th-century photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films

The technique opens a door to manufacturing of pressure-monitoring bandages, shade-shifting fabrics, or touch-sensing robots.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 1, 2022 ~9 min

Physicists harness quantum “time reversal” to measure vibrating atoms

A new technique could improve the precision of atomic clocks and of quantum sensors for detecting dark matter or gravitational waves.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 14, 2022 ~8 min

Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip

The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
June 13, 2022 ~7 min

Physicists find direct evidence of strong electron correlation in a 2D material for the first time

The discovery could help researchers engineer exotic electrical states such as unconventional superconductivity.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 17, 2022 ~8 min

Stackable ‘holobricks’ can make giant 3D images

Researchers have developed a new method to display highly realistic holographic images using ‘holobricks’ that can be stacked together to generate large-scale

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 16, 2022 ~4 min

More sensitive X-ray imaging

Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 24, 2022 ~8 min


MIT.nano receives grant to acquire focused ion beam scanning electron microscope

National Science Foundation award will allow the VELION FIB-SEM to become a permanent instrument in MIT.nano’s characterization facility.

MIT.nano • mit
Feb. 9, 2022 ~4 min

A new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy

SMART breakthrough could help develop technologies that can identify materials according to desired properties for specific applications.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
Jan. 18, 2022 ~8 min

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