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NanoSI Launch Event and Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting
April 26, 2024
Northeastern University’s Institute for NanoSystems Innovation held its launch event and Industrial Advisory Board meeting on April 26, 2024, showcasing NanoSI’s research in semiconductors and MEMS and creating opportunities for industry-academic collaboration on chip-level technology advancements.
David Horsley and Matteo Rinaldi receive Northeastern Global Network Accelerator Award
April 19, 2024
Launched in 2023, the Northeastern University Global Network Accelerator Award recognizes the contributions of faculty who continue to push the advancement of experiential learning and discovery beyond the boundaries of place.
US Science Agency Debuts Startup Matchmaking Program in Taiwan | Bloomberg
April 9, 2024
The US agency tasked with driving scientific research has launched a program to connect American startups with Taiwanese peers, backing the island’s ambitions to foster key players in strategic sectors like semiconductors, AI and beyond.
US-Taiwan Workshop on DeepTech Innovation and Partnerships
April 8—11, 2024
This US-Taiwan Workshop brought together government, academic, incubator, and startup stakeholders to discuss challenges, opportunities, and partnership models for deep-tech startups in the US and Taiwan.
This exotic crystal is fueling the quantum revolution
November 10, 2023
Arun Bansil, a theoretical physicist at Northeastern, has discovered new properties in the chemical element bismuth that could prevent supercomputers from frying and enable the production of low power electronics.
Breakthrough in quantum sensing provides new material to make ‘qubits’
March 8, 2022
Northeastern researchers discovered that atomic defects in certain solid crystals could serve as promising new materials for building qubits, potentially advancing the development of quantum computing technologies that leverage these quantum bits’ unique properties.
Physicists may have accidentally discovered a new state of matter. The possibilities are endless.
February 26, 2020
Humans have been studying electric charge for thousands of years, and the results have shaped modern civilization. Our daily lives depend on electric lighting, smartphones, cars, and computers, in ways that the first individuals to take note of a static shock or a bolt of lightning could never have imagined.
Superconductor or not? They’re exploring the identity crisis of this weird quantum material.
January 2, 2020
Northeastern researchers have used a powerful computer model to probe a puzzling class of copper-based materials that can be turned into superconductors. Their findings offer tantalizing clues for a decades-old mystery, and a step forward for quantum computing.
Northeastern University nanotechnology experts awarded patent for smart, zero-power sensors that will help fight forest, warehouse and construction site fires
August 1, 2019
Matteo Rinaldi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of Northeastern’s SMART Center, has come up with a clever solution for that: a smart detector that wakes itself up from ultra battery saver mode using the very flames it is engineered to detect.
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