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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.
2022 NanoSI Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Workshop
November 4, 2022
The NSF-sponsored NanoSI workshop convened researchers and partners from academia, industry and government to examine infrastructure requirements for a national facility supporting piezoelectric and hetero-integrated nano systems. The virtual event paired pre-recorded stakeholder presentations with a three-hour synchronous session featuring a summary report and breakout discussions. Topics included closing the gap between university prototyping and advanced semiconductor manufacturing, broadening access for underrepresented groups, and training the future nanomanufacturing workforce.
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.
Crops communicate with one another. These researchers want to listen in.
January 16, 2019
Researchers at Northeastern are designing a low-cost, low-power sensor that will detect the volatile organic chemicals given off by damaged plants.
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