Physicists design $100 handheld muon detector

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office | https://news.mit.edu Comments Off on Physicists design $100 handheld muon detector

Pocket-sized device detects charged particles in surrounding air. At any given moment, the Earth’s atmosphere is showered with high-energy cosmic rays that have been blasted from supernovae and other astrophysical... Read More

Atomically thin perovskites boost for future electronics

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WPI-MANA has developed the world’s highest performance dielectric nanofilms using atomically thin perovskites. This technology may revolutionize the next-generation of electronics. This research was conducted by a WPI-MANA research group... Read More

Global mobile industry leaders achieve multi-band 5G NR interoperability

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AT&T, Ericsson, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm Technologies, SK Telecom, Sprint, Telstra, T-Mobile US, Verizon, and Vodafone demonstrate a multi-vendor interoperability connection compliant with the Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR)... Read More

New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Comments Off on New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells

The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels is usually slow and painstaking. Researchers typically must produce lab samples — which are often... Read More