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november2024

Recently Published Patents

III-Nitride Vertical Hot Electron Transistor With Polarization Doping And Collimated Injection

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in III-nitride-based hot electron transistor (HET) technology, delivering record performance with a collector current density over 440 kA/cm² and a current gain exceeding 75. Through advanced polarization engineering and precise fabrication techniques, these innovations position GaN-based HETs as strong contenders for next-generation high-frequency and high-power applications like mm-wave and terahertz systems.


Article tracking

Fibers with built-in photonic structures offer a durable and secure way to track and label items like textiles. When illuminated, these fibers produce a unique optical signal that reveals key details about the item, such as its composition or origin. Unlike traditional tags or labels that can wear out or be tampered with, these fibers ensure reliable identification throughout the item’s lifecycle, helping with recycling, quality control, and counterfeit prevention.

Newsletter Highlights

TBIRD technology could help image black holes' photon rings

In April 2019, a group of astronomers from around the globe stunned the world when they revealed the first image of a black hole - the monstrous accumulation of collapsed stars and gas that lets nothing escape, not even light.

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R&D 100 Award Winner Highlight

This software uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to create high-resolution maps, or atlases, of the brain's network of neurons from high-dimensional biomedical data. NeuroTrALE addresses a major challenge in AI-assisted brain mapping: a lack of labeled data for training AI systems to build atlases essential for study of the brain's neural structures and mechanisms. The software is the first end-to-end system to perform processing and annotation of dense microscopy data; generate segmentations of neurons; and enable experts to review, correct, and edit NeuroTrALE's annotations from a web browser. This award is shared with the MIT Chung Lab.

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70 Years Ago in 1954


Lincoln Laboratory Occupies Current Facility

Groundbreaking for Lincoln Laboratory (then called Project Lincoln) began in 1951 at a site in Lexington, Mass. The facility was sited partially on land owned by MIT and primarily on land at what is now Hanscom Air Force Base, and included four laboratory/office buildings plus a concrete-block utility structure. Lincoln Laboratory moved into this facility in 1954 and still occupies those original five buildings as well as many newer buildings, including the Microelectronics Laboratory (c. 1992) and South Laboratory (c. 1994).

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