Jun 19, 2015 | News Articles
We built a transmissometer to determine the thickness of thin films of NbN that are deposited as the starting material for SNSPDs. The transmissometer measures the transmittance of light through NbN thin films, and the thickness of the NbN is found by fitting the...
May 11, 2015 | News Articles, Uncategorized
Congrats to QNN Group Member Alyssa Cartwright for receiving the Morais (’86) and Rosenblum (’86) UROP Award. This award is given at the annual EECS Celebration in recognition of best undergraduate research project in EECS.
Apr 29, 2015 | News Articles
Karl Berggren recently served as a member of MIT’s recent committee tasked with studying the nation’s “Innovation Deficit.” The outcome of the committee was a report in which a number of cases were studied, each of which illustrated...
Apr 2, 2015 | News Articles
Congrats to QNN group member Sarah Goodman who has received the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG). This is a large honor and will fund her research for the coming years. “The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate...
Apr 2, 2015 | News Articles
Congrats to Dr. Amir Tavakkoli K.G. for receiving the Best Postdoc Presentation Award from the MRS Symposium Directed Self Assembly for Nanopatterning. This was given to Amir for his presentation “Formation of Multilayer Structure and Nanoscale Rectangular Mesh...
Feb 28, 2015 | News Articles
A method developed by the QNN Group with collaborators promises a way to make complex two-dimensional patterns by using sparse lithography in combination with self-assembly. Such a technique could be useful for nanofabrication of integrated-circuit patterns, or...