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MIT engineer Joel Dawson and colleagues built a handheld probe that could help doctors monitor muscle atrophy in patients with Lou Gehrig's Disease and other ailments.
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MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.
The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, a recently formed international research organization registered in the UN, is seeking strongly motivated Researchers to join its new facility in Braga, North of Portugal (www.inl.int). INL central lab facilities are presently being built and w ill open in late 2009 (100 million euros investment for an expected research community of around 400 people at full operation).
Joel Dawson was one of 100 researchers named by President Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers on July 9, 2009. The recipient scientists and engineers will receive their awards in the Fall at a White House ceremony.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A simulation of electrical current moving through a futuristic electronic transistor has been modeled atom-by-atom in less than 15 minutes by Purdue University researchers.
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The Navy's Department of Naval Research (ONR) has named Tomas Palacios, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, as one of its 15 new Young Investigators.
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The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today began a major new collaboration that will enrich each institution's research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Prof. Hae-Seung "Harry" Lee was named as a new Associate Director for the Microsystems Techology Laboratories on May 11. The announcement was made by the MTL Director, Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan, via an e-mail sent to the MTL Community.
"It is my pleasure to announce a new Associate Director for MTL, Prof. Hae-Seung (Harry) Lee. Harry, who currently serves as the Director of the MTL Center on Circuits and Systems, will be involved in a number of core MTL activities including helping with industrial relations and MTL publications," said Chandrakasan in his e-mail.
Lee has pioneered several analog-to-digital circuit techniques such as digital calibration and comparator based switched capacitor design and has demonstrated benchmark results. Although Lee's research focus is in integrated circuit design, he also has a background in fabrication. As a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, Lee developed a new CMOS process flow for the then new 3-inch fab and fabricated a A/D converter chip which achieved unprecedented 15 bit accuracy. Lee also developed a BiCMOS process in MTL's Integrated Circuit Laboratory (ICL) in the 1980s.
Lee will join the other Associate Directors, Prof. Judy Hoyt (Associate Director of Fabrication and MTL Safety Officer), Prof. Jesus A. del Alamo (Associate Director of Computation), Dr. Vicky Diadiuk (Associate Director for Fabrication Operations) and Mr. Samuel Crooks (MTL Administrative Officer and Associate Director of Finance).
The Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Veeco Instruments (Plainview, NY) have recently announced that Veeco Instruments has joined the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG), an exclusive member industry consortium.
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The MTL operations team of Dan Adams, Ryan O'Keefe, and Tim Turner was given the Infinite Mile Award for Team Excellence from the MIT School of Engineering during the school's ninth annual awards ceremony on April 29, 2009. The team was cited by Personnel and Operations Administrator Debroah Hodges-Pabon for "[being] instrumental in supporting operational and educational goals of MTL and the Institute. They also provide additional help upon request with major MTL events." Congratulations, gentlemen!
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