News: Lionel C. Kimerling

Capability-to-Latency-Energy-Amount-Resistance (CLEAR) metric

April 22, 2020

The Capability-to-Latency-Energy-Amount-Resistance (CLEAR) metric encompasses synchronizing speed, energy efficiency, physical machine size scaling, and economic cost.   more

MIT's AIM Photonics Academy looks to expand

December 1, 2017

MIT’s AIM Photonics Academy helped organize a gathering of more than 60 people at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, earlier this month to explore opportunities in integrated…  more

Greater Springfield could be home to future laser industry

October 24, 2017

Last month, STCC announced that it is working with MIT on proposing a state-of-the-art photonics "factory" on STCC's campus in Springfield. MIT launched the first Photonics Education and Practice Factory this past spring, and Quinsigamond Community College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute --…  more

Roadmapping integrated photonics

March 11, 2017

AIM Photonics Institute, the MIT Microphotonics Center and iNEMI co-host the Spring meeting on the Integrated Photonics System Roadmap [IPSR], Tuesday through Thursday, March 28-30, 2017, at MIT. Session topics include Silicon Photonics and Moore’s Law; Human-Machine Interfaces; Automated…  more

Chemical Sensing on a Chip

January 25, 2016

Anuradha Agarwal is working with Lionel Kimerling and Juejun Hu of MIT's DMSE in the pursuit of shrinking and advancing sensory technology.  …  more

Research and Education Initiatives, 2015-16

December 1, 2015

Here's a quick video update on research and education initiatives from DMSE. Professor Chiang offers his perspective on energy research, Professor Gibson describes DMSE's online educational offerings, Professor Fitzgerald explains DMSE's international collaboration with universities in…  more

Silicon photonics meets the foundry

September 10, 2015

Advances in microprocessors have transferred the computation bottleneck away from CPUs to better communications between components. That trend is driving the advance into optical interconnection of components, now moving from systems to boards to chip packages to chips themselves. Lionel…  more

Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics manufacturing

July 28, 2015

A new partnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics. MIT is a key player in a new $600 million public-private partnership announced today by the Obama administration…  more

Faster computer chips

March 6, 2012

Wired mentions Professor Kimerling's work with germanium lasers in this article on HP's laser-powered chips.  more

Microchips’ optical future

February 14, 2012

To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States. See the MIT News Office…  more

Step toward computing with light

November 27, 2011

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Kimerling group develops germanium laser

February 3, 2010

New results from the Electronic Materials Research Group bring us closer to computers that use light instead of electricity to move data. In a paper to be published in Optics Letters, Prof. Lionel Kimerling and members of his group describe…  more