Oct 7, 2015 | News Articles
The Logic Analysis Tool (LAT) team received the Optical Society’s 2015 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award. Professor Karl Berggren, Dr. Kristen Sunter, and Dr. Faraz Najafi participated in this project. Other collaborators include DCG Systems, IBM,...
Sep 22, 2015 | News Articles
Congratulations to Faraz Najafi, Adam McCaughan, and Vitor Manfrinato on their graduations! Check out their theses below: Faraz Najafi: Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors: New Detector Architectures and Integration with Photonic Chips Vitor...
Sep 10, 2015 | News Articles
We have written a book chapter about the self-assembly of block copolymers by graphoepitaxy. In the fabrication of a desired block copolymer (BCP) nanostructure for a particular application, a key challenge is the control of the BCP microdomain assembly. Graphoepitaxy...
Aug 4, 2015 | News Articles
A showcase of MTL’s diverse and creative research, this report contains 147 abstracts submitted by 40 research groups. The QNN group’s contributions can be found here: Driving Stage for SFQ Circuits using a Single Nanocryotron Modeling Superconducting...
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 3, 2015 | News Articles, Our Research
[abstract] We found that electron-beam lithography, a top-down approach, is a suitable prototyping method for templating and controlling hydrothermally-grown ZnO nanowires (NWs). By varying the deposition method of the ZnO seed layer, annealing and template hole...