Associate Professor Joseph Checkelsky wins $1.7 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative grant to pursue search for new crystalline materials.

Finding the right quantum materials

MIT researchers discover why magnetism in certain materials is different in atomically thin layers and their bulk forms.

Controlling 2-D magnetism with stacking order

MIT researchers have discovered a method to predict and control the length of tunnels in solid germanium by laterally growing it over silicon oxide strips (shown in yellow) on top of silicon (green), depicted from left to right. Germanium, shown in purple, smoothly covers the silicon but forms voids and tunnels (lighter shade of purple) where germanium and silicon oxide meet. The voids and tunnels reconfigure into a single tunnel as the growth proceeds.  Image: Rui-Tao Wen

Researchers grow perfectly shaped germanium tunnels on silicon oxide with controllable length.

A new facet for germanium

This illustration shows the characteristic “sheriff star”-type pattern of the Fermi surface, or distribution of electron energy and momentum, for the kagome metal FeSn, a 1-to-1 ratio compound of iron and tin.  Image: Min Gu Kang

Newly synthesized compound of iron and tin atoms in 1-to-1 ratio displays unique behavior.

Researchers realize "ideal" kagome metal electronic structure

The Maldives, a chain of islands in the Indian Ocean, are at risk of erosion and, at worst, submersion from rising sea levels. MIT's Skylar Tibbits is conducting field experiments with a group called Invena in the Maldives to harness the power of waves with underwater bladders to promote sand accumulation where it is most needed to protect shorelines from flooding.  Image: Self-Assembly Lab at MIT and Invena