MIT.nano

April Seminar: Ferroelectric hafnia-on-semiconductor frequency control devices: Unleashing the power of nano-mechanics on chip – April 8

MIT.nano's April seminar will be delivered by Associate Professor Roozbeh Tabrizian from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida.

Monday, April 8, 2024
3PM – 4PM ET
Grier Combined (34-401)

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VIAVI Solutions joins MIT.nano Consortium

International technology company becomes sustaining member of industry group.

March 28, 2024

Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products

A catalyst tethered by DNA boosts the efficiency of the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO, a building block for many chemical compounds.

March 27, 2024

Unlocking mRNA’s cancer-fighting potential

MIT spinout Strand Therapeutics has developed a new class of mRNA molecules that can sense where they are in the body, for more targeted and powerful treatments.

March 27, 2024

Characterization User Forum - April 3

Join us for the first Characterization User Forum on April 3, 2024 at 4pm in MIT.nano 12-0168.

Nano Explorations: Superconducting nanowire electronics in magnesium diboride—Apr. 9

Join us on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 for the next Nano Explorations talk. Emma Batson, PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science will present on superconducting nano electronics in magnesium diboride.

11 a.m. — 11:45 a.m. ET
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With a new experimental technique, MIT engineers probe the mechanisms of landslides and earthquakes

The behavior of granular materials has been difficult to visualize, but a new method reveals their internal forces in 3D detail.

March 25, 2024

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists

Assistant Professor Long Ju and his colleagues observed the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect when five layers of graphene were sandwiched between sheets of boron nitride. The findings are “capturing physicists’ imagination because they are fundamentally new discoveries about how electrons behave.”

March 25, 2024

EDS/EBSD Workshop with Gatan/EDAX-Apr. 11

Join MIT.nano for a tool talk with EDAX/Gatan

Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Location: 12-0168 (MIT.nano basement)
Lunch will be provided to registered participants, sponsored by Gatan/EDAX

Workshop Schedule
10:30AM – 11:30 AM: Quantifying lithium in the SEM using Cipher (EDS/qBSE)
11:30 – 12:15 am: The Future of EBSD Indexing Methods: Spherical Indexing and its Applications
12:15PM-1:00PM: Lunch (sponsored by Gatan/EDAX)
1-4:30 pm: EBSD data indexing demonstration and Q/A

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Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers

MIT scientists have tackled key obstacles to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for the next generation of energy-efficient computers.

March 22, 2024

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