Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers
Globally, computation is booming at an unprecedented rate, fueled by the boons of artificial intelligence. With this, the staggering energy demand of the world’s computing infrastructure has become a...
View ArticlePutting a new spin on computer hardware
Luqiao Liu was the kind of kid who would rather take his toys apart to see how they worked than play with them the way they were intended.Curiosity has been a driving force throughout his life, and it...
View ArticleGene Dresselhaus, influential research scientist in solid-state physics, dies...
Gene Dresselhaus, a longtime research physicist at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and later the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at MIT (now part of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), died peacefully...
View ArticleResearchers find a new way to control magnets
Most of the magnets we encounter daily are made of “ferromagnetic” materials. The north-south magnetic axes of most atoms in these materials are lined up in the same direction, so their collective...
View ArticleExploring new paths to future quantum electronics
When ultrathin layered materials are coupled with other quantum materials having different properties, the resulting interface could produce a new quantum phenomenon — and new properties of the hybrid...
View ArticleFinding the right quantum materials
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded MIT Associate Professor of Physics Joseph G. Checkelsky a $1.7 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative grant to pursue his...
View ArticleMIT researchers realize “ideal” kagome metal electronic structure
Since 2016, a team of MIT researchers consisting of graduate students Linda Ye and Min Gu Kang, associate professor of physics Joseph G. Checkelsky, and Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant...
View ArticleToward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design that enables precise control of computing with magnetic waves — with no electricity needed. The advance takes a step toward practical magnetic-based...
View ArticleApproaching the magnetic singularity
In many materials, electrical resistance and voltage change in the presence of a magnetic field, usually varying smoothly as the magnetic field rotates. This simple magnetic response underlies many...
View ArticleControllable fast, tiny magnetic bits
For many modern technical applications, such as superconducting wires for magnetic resonance imaging, engineers want as much as possible to get rid of electrical resistance and its accompanying...
View ArticleStudy opens route to ultra-low-power microchips
A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also...
View ArticleDeveloping new magnetic device materials
Assistant professor of electrical engineering Luqiao Liu is developing new magnetic materials, known as antiferromagnets, that can be operated at room temperature by reversing their electron spin and...
View ArticleFast-moving magnetic particles could enable new form of data storage
New research has shown that an exotic kind of magnetic behavior discovered just a few years ago holds great promise as a way of storing data — one that could overcome fundamental limits that might...
View ArticleGeoffrey Beach: Drawn to explore magnetism
Geoffrey Beach has been tinkering and building things most of his life, including some 50 model rockets that he built and launched while in high school in Oklahoma. But it wasn’t until his...
View ArticleToward “valleytronic” devices for data storage or computer logic systems
Faster, more efficient data storage and computer logic systems could be on the horizon thanks to a new way of tuning electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal, discovered by...
View ArticleBooting up spin-based device studies
MIT Materials Processing Center (MPC)-Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) Summer Scholar Grant Smith is working in the lab of MIT assistant professor of electrical engineering and...
View ArticleMixing topology and spin
In the pursuit of material platforms for the next generation of electronics, scientists are studying new compounds such as topological insulators (TIs), which support protected electron states on the...
View ArticleResearchers find unexpected magnetic effect
A new and unexpected magnetic effect has taken researchers by surprise, and could open up a new pathway to advanced electronic devices and even robust quantum computer architecture. The finding is...
View ArticleAchieving zero resistance in energy flow
Laptop computer users operating their devices on their laps will be familiar with the heat they generate, which comes from electrical resistance converting waste energy to heat. Scientists dream of...
View ArticleResearch highlight: Jagadeesh Moodera
MIT Physics Department Senior Research Scientist Jagadeesh S. Moodera was one of the pioneers in the field of spin-polarized magnetic tunnel junctions, which led to a thousand-fold increase in hard...
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