Sep 4, 2019 | News Articles
With the rising societal demand for more information-processing capacity with lower power consumption, alternative architectures inspired by the parallelism and robustness of the human brain have recently emerged as possible solutions. In particular, spiking neural...
Aug 12, 2019 | News Articles
At the surfaces of nanostructures, enhanced electric fields can drive optical-field photoemission and thereby generate and control electrical currents at frequencies exceeding 100 THz. A hallmark of such optical-field photoemission is the sensitivity of the total...
Jun 6, 2019 | News Articles
Congratulations to Emily for being awarded the 3rd prize in the “Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts” contest. Established in 1996, the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize is awarded each year to current MIT undergraduate and graduate students for excellence...
Jun 5, 2019 | News Articles
Congratulations to Emily Toomey for being selected as 2019 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. The AAAS Mass Media Fellowship is a competitive program aimed at encouraging communication in science and fostering connections between scientists and journalists. Each year, fellows...
May 28, 2019 | News Articles
The authors present the use of a commercially available fixed-angle multiwavelength ellipsometer for quickly measuring the thickness of NbN thin films for the fabrication and performance improvement of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. The process can...
Apr 9, 2019 | News Articles
Congratulations to John Simonaitis on receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This prestigious and competitive award will support his work for three years.