Light moving through a tiny silicon structure does not look dramatic. It slips down narrow waveguides etched onto a chip, ...

An innovative method uses the intrinsic attractive force between silicon surfaces that are separated by a tiny gap to engineer structures that can confine light — offering an ideal set-up for ...

Engineers at MIT have turned one of computing’s biggest headaches, waste heat, into the main act. By sculpting “dust-sized” silicon structures that steer heat as precisely as electrical current, they ...

Waste heat from hardware can cause a variety of problems and is generally considered unnecessary, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have reported that they have ...

Researchers uncovered how soft regions in amorphous silicon mix order and disorder, offering new insights for designing stronger amorphous materials. Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of ...