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A mat of nanowires with the touch and feel of paper could be an important new tool in the cleanup of oil and other organic pollutants, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the May 30 online issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
Continue reading "MIT Develops a 'Paper Towel' for Oil Spills" >>
Professor Martin Schmidt of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has been appointed Associate Provost, Provost L. Rafael Reif announced this week.
Continue reading "Schmidt to succeed Gibson as associate provost" >>
Joel L. Dawson, core member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The program will provide $400,000 over five years to support his group's work in cutting-edge wireless transceiver architectures. The title of his proposal was "Digitally-assisted Architectures for Next Generation RF Transceivers." The focus of the work is to exercise architectural design creativity, as well as leverage mathematical optimization techniques, to maximally exploit deep-submicron CMOS for high performance wireless communications.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of the early career development activities of young faculty. The program is designed to recognize young scholars who demonstrate most effectively the integration of research and teaching within their organizations.
More information about the research activity in Prof. Dawson's group can be found at mtlweb.mit.edu/~jldawson.
A $4 million gift by Emanuel E. Landsman '58, SM '59, ScD '66 and his wife, Sheila E. Landsman, to the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) will provide a career development professorship, fellowship support and UROP funds in the fields of power electronics and electric energy-related engineering.
Continue reading "Landsman gift aids electric energy-related engineering at MIT" >>
Tomas Palacios, core member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) has been awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award for his project "On-Wafer Integration of Nitride and Silicon CMOS Electronics." This project focuses on the seamless integration of GaN and Si transistors on the same wafer to take advantage of the very high critical electric field and electron velocity of GaN transistors and the capabilities of Si MOSFETs. This integration will result in very significant performance improvements in power electronics, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters and other mixed-signal circuits.
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An MIT student and collaborators have designed the uBox, a 'smart' pillbox that dispenses pills, alerts the patient that it's time to take the medication, records the time the pill was taken and prevents double-dosing.
Continue reading "Smart pillbox could be a lifesaver" >>
The Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) Seminar Series kicks-off at 4PM on Tuesday, March 4, with a talk by Dr. Robert M. "Bob" Metcalfe, venture capitalist and Ethernet inventor. The seminar will take place at 50 Vassar Street, room 34-101, Cambridge, MA.
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Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have
unveiled a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to
10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. The design
could lead to cell phones, implantable medical devices and sensors
that last far longer when running from a battery.
To: The MEMS@MIT Community
Re: Nominations for the 2008 Senturia Prize
We are now accepting nominations for the Third Annual Senturia Prize for Outstanding Thesis in Micro/Nanosystems. This prize is awarded yearly to a graduating doctoral student whose thesis has made outstanding contributions to their field. In addition to receiving an honorarium, the recipient will present a lecture on their research at the MNSS seminar on May 8, 2008.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Engineers at MIT are developing a tiny sensor that could be used to detect minute quantities of hazardous gases, including toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents, much more quickly than current devices.
