News Articles

2015

5/29/2015
MIT commercialization initiative seeks markets for research-derived technology
2/20/2015
Fibers made by transforming materials
1/20/2015
New fibers can deliver many simultaneous stimuli

2013

11/1/2013
Advances in materials driving new technologies
10/17/2013
Reif announces plans to launch an MIT Innovation Initiative

2012

7/19/2012
Dripping faucets inspire new way of creating structured particles
3/12/2012
Fiber laser points to woven 3-D displays
3/2/2012
New Initiatives in graduate education at MIT

2011

5/20/2011
Spinning new materials in a thread
3/17/2011
Innovation Nation: Smart Fibers
2/1/2011
Fibres get functional

2010

8/25/2010
MIT Smart Fibers Take In And Send Out Sound
7/13/2010
Fibers That Can Hear and Sing Could Power Electronic Textiles
7/13/2010
New Fibers Can See, Hear, Speak
7/12/2010
Fibers that can hear and sing

2009

7/8/2009
A fabric with vision: researchers create flexible lensless camera from web of light-detecting fibers

2007

3/6/2007
MacVicar Day celebrates diversity in learning, teaching strategies
3/2/2007
Yoel Fink named a 2007 Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow

2006

12/1/2006
A Better Liquid-Explosives Detector
10/25/2006
23 faculty members awarded tenure
9/1/2006
Smart fibres measure optical and thermal signals
7/28/2006
Light-Sensing Fibers for Transparent Cameras
7/6/2006
MIT scientists create fiber webs that see
5/9/2006
Yoel Fink and Rahul Sarpeshkar Awarded Tenure
4/5/2006
MIT technology used to shrink tumor
2/26/2006
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Achieves World’s First in Lung Cancer Surgery Using Hollow-core Photonic Bandgap Optical Fibers

2005

11/12/2005
Smart optical fibers could save lives
11/8/2005
Smart Fibers: Optical fibers with embedded semiconductor circuits could save lives in surgery
11/1/2005
Smart Optical Fibers
10/23/2005
Healing Light: Computational modeling leads the way to a major advance in laser surgery
3/2/2005
High-Tech Twine: Novel fibers can sense light
3/2/2005
Trip the Light Fantastic: Teaching old optics new tricks could lead to novel sensors and interfaces

2004

12/1/2004
December 2004, Laser Focus World: Optoelectronics fibers transmit protons and electrons
12/1/2004
December 2004, Optics and Photonic News: Optics in 2004
12/1/2004
December 2004, Materials Today: Shedding light on smart fabrics
10/1/2004
October 2004, MIT News: MIT’s novel fabric sees the light
10/1/2004
October 2004, New Scientist: A lighter approach to computer control
10/1/2004
October 2004, PhysicsWeb: Composite fibres light up
10/1/2004
October 2004, Nature Magazine: Optical fibres—A light fabric
2/1/2004
February 2004, TechTalk: NAS Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Sciences

2003

3/1/2003
March 2003, Photonics Spectra: MIT investigates photonic uniforms
2/1/2003
February 2003, RLE at MIT newsletter: Cool New Threads
1/1/2003
January 2003, MIT News: Making a splash in 2002: Landmarks in MIT science in the year gone by

2002

12/1/2002
December 2002, NewScientist: Optical fibre could be surgeon’s flexible friend
12/1/2002
December 2002, optics.org: Holey fiber delivers industrial laser
12/1/2002
December 2002, MIT News: MIT’s new optical fiber carries more power with less loss
12/1/2002
December 2002, High power laser delivery: Demonstration [movie]: CO2 Laser
10/1/2002
October 2002 Science & Technology News Networks: Color Wars
10/1/2002
Interview with Yoel Fink on the Discovery Channel Canada: Mirror Fabric
10/1/2002
October 2002 issue of Technology Review: Super Soldiers
6/1/2002
News brief in June 2002 issue of Scientific American: Nice Threads
4/1/2002
April 2002 Article in Chemical & Engineering News: Flashy Fibers Reflect All Comers
4/1/2002
April 2002 ABCnews.com Science & Technology feature: Reflecting on a Future for High-Tech Fiber
4/1/2002
April 2002 Optical Society of America featured article: Photonic fibres weave smart fabrics
4/1/2002
April 2002 MIT News feature: Mirror fibers could create photonic fabrics
4/1/2002
April 2002 Science Magazine Table of Contents: The Gold Standard
3/1/2002
RLEweb feature story: RLE Professor Yoel Fink and Dr. Ngai C. Wong win major $2.5M award in quantum communication from the DoD Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST) program