Photonics

Important step toward computing with lightResearch at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips.

Fink named RLE directorSucceeds Shapiro to lead one of the Institute’s oldest interdepartmental labs

Making materials to orderNew method of forming composites allows fine-tuning of mechanical, electrical, thermal and other properties.

Biology rides to computers’ aidPhotonic crystals could usher in an age of low-power optical computing, but they’re hard to manufacture. Maybe adding a little DNA would help.