News

2026

  • Apr 13, 2026

    Eunseok Lee and Xibi Chen win 2026 IEEE SSCS Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award

    Eunseok Lee and Xibi Chen won the 2026 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award. Eunseok Lee also won the 2026 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award.

2025

  • Dec 16, 2025

    Three students win 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

    Congratulations to Sanjay Chintapally, Tyler Weigand, and Nicholas (Sihyun) Lee on winning the 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

  • Jun 19, 2025

    Three conference presentations in one week

    Jaehong Jung presented his work on a 60-GHz CMOS fractional-N PLL at the IEEE VLSI Technology & Circuit Symposium in Kyoto, Japan (TSMC 28-nm, 58 fs rms jitter at 28 mW). Pradyot Yadav (co-advised by Prof. Tomás Palacios) presented a 3D mm-wave heterogeneous integration technology at IEEE RFIC in San Francisco. Mingran Jia (co-advised by Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan) presented a 260-GHz retro-backscatter THz ID chip at RFIC. Both Pradyot's and Mingran's papers were finalists for the Symposium's best student paper awards.

  • Apr 11, 2025

    Krishna Pochana wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

    Congratulations to PhD student Krishna Pochana for winning the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Krishna joined the group in 2024 after receiving his B.S. from Caltech.

  • Mar 10, 2025

    Nature Electronics paper on THz wireless chips for cryogenic quantum hardware

    Silicon chips running at sub-terahertz frequencies are typically considered inefficient and power hungry. Our new paper on Nature Electronics shows how terahertz wireless chips help reduce the heat load of cryogenic quantum hardware. The work is a collaboration with Prof. Dirk Englund's team at MIT.

  • Mar 10, 2025

    Ruonan Han named IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer (2025–2026)

    Prof. Ruonan Han is the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society for 2025–2026.

  • Feb 13, 2025

    Jinchen Wang presents 232–260 GHz CMOS radiation source at ISSCC

    Jinchen Wang presented a 232–260 GHz CMOS radiation source at ISSCC. Using a low-cost THz radiation packaging technique and Intel's high-power FinFETs, >10 mW of radiated power is achieved for the first time. The work is highlighted on the MIT homepage and IEEE Spectrum.

  • Feb 13, 2025

    Ruonan Han promoted to Professor

    Prof. Ruonan Han is promoted to Professor (effective July 1, 2025) by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. Prof. Han joined the MIT faculty in July 2014.

2024

  • Dec 3, 2024

    Jinchen Wang wins 2024 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award

    Congratulations to Jinchen Wang on winning the 2024 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award.

  • May 8, 2024

    Jinchen Wang wins Hennie III Teaching Award

    Congratulations to Jinchen Wang on winning the 2024 Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award for Excellence in the EECS department, MIT.

  • Feb 1, 2024

    Xibi Chen wins 2024 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship and Tom Brazil Fellowship

    Congratulations to Xibi Chen on winning the 2024 IEEE Microwave Theory & Technique Society Graduate Fellowship and the 2024 IEEE MTT-S Tom Brazil Graduate Fellowship.

2023

  • Nov 8, 2023

    Eunseok Lee delivers A-SSCC 2023 invited talk

    Eunseok Lee presented the invited talk on his THz wake-up receiver work at the 2023 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Hainan, China.

  • Nov 7, 2023

    Two ISSCC 2024 paper acceptances

    Eunseok Lee's work on a packageless anti-tampering THz ID is accepted to ISSCC 2024. Jinchen Wang's work on a cryo-CMOS NV controller is accepted to the Student Research Preview (SRP) at ISSCC 2024. Congratulations to Eunseok and Jinchen!

  • Aug 9, 2023

    Eunseok Lee invited to A-SSCC 2023

    Eunseok Lee is invited to present his CICC talk at the 2023 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) in Hainan, China.

  • Apr 24, 2023

    World's first THz wake-up receiver chip at CICC

    Eunseok Lee presented the world's first THz wake-up receiver chip at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). Pushing the wake-up receiver operation frequency to hundreds of GHz allows for millimeter-sized IoT systems with micro-watt-level power consumption and integrated lightweight cryptography. The device was demonstrated to wake up at 8-meter distance and pairs with our recent electronic THz beam former.

  • Feb 22, 2023

    Jinchen Wang presents THz cryogenic-classical data link at ISSCC 2023

    Jinchen Wang presented his THz cryogenic-classical data link work at the 2023 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The work is a collaboration with Prof. Dirk Englund and his student Issac Harris.

  • Feb 20, 2023

    Ruonan Han receives 2023 IEEE SSCS New Frontier Award

    Prof. Ruonan Han received the 2023 IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society New Frontier Award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).

  • Feb 15, 2023

    Ruonan Han appointed Director of MIT CICS and EECS Undergrad Lab Officer

    Prof. Ruonan Han is appointed Director of the MIT Center of Integrated Circuits and Systems (CICS) and Undergraduate Laboratory Officer of the MIT EECS Department, joining the Department Leadership Group (DLG).

2022

  • Mar 10, 2022

    Ruonan Han joins ISSCC Technical Program Committee

    Prof. Ruonan Han joins the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).

  • Feb 19, 2022

    Two papers at ISSCC 2022 — THz beam forming and 140 GHz radar

    We present two papers at the 2022 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC): (1) electrical THz pencil beam forming and steering (Nathan Monroe), and (2) a 140 GHz monostatic radar without intrinsic 6 dB loss associated with conventional couplers (Xibi Chen). Congratulations to the first authors and all team members.

  • Jan 29, 2022

    Muhammad Ibrahim Wasiq Khan wins 2022 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship

    Congratulations to Muhammad Ibrahim Wasiq Khan on winning the 2022 IEEE Microwave Theory & Technique Society Graduate Fellowship.

2021

  • May 1, 2021

    Ruonan Han promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

    Prof. Ruonan Han is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

  • Mar 4, 2021

    OAM 310 GHz CMOS transceiver wins RFIC 2021 Best Student Paper Award

    Our paper on a 310 GHz CMOS transceiver utilizing waves with orbital-angular momentum (OAM) is accepted to the IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium (RFIC) and wins the Best Student Paper Award (First Place). This is a collaboration with Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan's team at MIT.

  • Feb 24, 2021

    THz dielectric waveguide link featured on MIT Homepage and IEEE Spectrum

    Our THz dielectric waveguide link work, originally presented at ISSCC 2021, is reported on the MIT Homepage and IEEE Spectrum.

2020

  • Dec 23, 2020

    Mohamed Ibrahim wins 2021 SSCS Predoctoral and IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowships

    Congratulations to Mohamed Ibrahim on winning the 2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award. Mohamed was also awarded the 2021 IEEE Microwave Theory & Technique Society Graduate Fellowship.

  • Nov 24, 2020

    Jack Holloway defends PhD — first PhD graduate of the group

    Jack Holloway successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation defense. Jack is the very first Ph.D. graduate of the group; his thesis is on ultra-high-speed wireline links using THz wave transmission inside a dielectric waveguide. Jack was a part-time student concurrently leading R&D at the Office of Naval Research and Raytheon, with publications on ISSCC, IEDM, IEEE T-MTT and Microwave Magazine.

  • Nov 1, 2020

    Jack Holloway's 105 Gbps THz dielectric waveguide link accepted to ISSCC 2021

    Jack Holloway's paper on a 105 Gbps THz dielectric waveguide link is accepted to the Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2021.

  • Aug 30, 2020

    Four JSSC papers accepted

    Over the past month, three papers were accepted to the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC): (1) an ultra-broadband (100 GHz) THz comb radar (Xiang Yi), (2) a salt-grain-size RFID using sub-THz carrier (Muhammed Khan), and (3) the second-generation chip-scale molecular clock (Cheng Wang). A fourth manuscript, on a CMOS NV- center quantum magnetometer (Mohamed Ibrahim with Chris Foy and Dirk Englund), was also accepted on 09/19/2020.

  • Jul 15, 2020

    Group joins NASA Strategic University Research Partnership

    Our group is now part of the NASA Strategic University Research Partnership (SURP) program and will collaborate with scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on an ultra-miniaturized, monolithic molecular clock on a silicon chip.

  • May 20, 2020

    Zhi Hu defends PhD and wins MTL Director's Dissertation Award

    Zhi Hu successfully defended his dissertation (Large-Scale High-Density Terahertz Radiator and Receiver Arrays on Silicon Chips) and won the 2020 MIT MTL Director's Dissertation Award — the group's second consecutive winner of this award.

  • Feb 23, 2020

    Three new THz microsystems debut at ISSCC

    Three new THz microsystems — cryptographic THz ID, THz-comb FMCW radar, and chip-scale molecular clock — debuted at ISSCC. A live demo of the second-generation molecular clock was also given at the conference.

  • Feb 23, 2020

    THz-ID work reported by MIT News

    Our THz-ID work is reported by MIT Spotlight News on the MIT homepage. In collaboration with Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan's team, the CMOS THz-ID uses an on-chip 2×2 antenna array for 260 GHz backscatter communication and beam steering, with an integrated ultra-low-power cryptographic processor — all in 1.6 mm² without external packaging.

  • Jan 23, 2020

    Mina Kim presents at PTTI Meeting

    Mina Kim presented at the Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Meeting held by the Institution of Navigation (ION) in San Diego, CA. The talk described our collaboration with NASA JPL on a THz molecular-clock architecture for deep-space inter-smallsat radio occultation.

  • Jan 10, 2020

    Ruonan Han associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering

    Prof. Ruonan Han is now an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.

2019

  • Dec 16, 2019

    Cheng Wang wins MIT MTL Doctoral Dissertation Award and IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award

    Congratulations to Cheng Wang on winning the 2019 MIT MTL Doctoral Dissertation Award and the 2020 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award.

  • Oct 28, 2019

    Cheng Wang defends PhD

    Cheng Wang successfully passed his Ph.D. defense. Cheng joined the group in 2015 and investigated chip-scale rotational spectrometers and molecular clocks, with results in 2 ISSCC, 1 IEDM, and 1 Nature Electronics papers. Prof. Hae-Seung (Harry) Lee and Prof. Qing Hu served on his thesis committee.

  • Oct 24, 2019

    Ruonan Han joins Cell Reports Physical Science advisory board

    Prof. Ruonan Han joins the advisory board of Cell Reports Physical Science of Cell Press.

  • Oct 18, 2019

    NSF/MIT workshop on security in RF/analog microelectronics

    The NSF and MIT held a two-day workshop in Washington, D.C. on security in RF/analog microelectronics and electromagnetics, exploring needs from DC to terahertz. Prof. Ruonan Han chaired the workshop with co-chairs Prof. Vanessa Chen (CMU) and Prof. Jeffrey Nanzer (MSU), sponsored by NSF (Dr. Jenshan Lin). Over 70 experts from academia, industry, and government attended.

  • Oct 18, 2019

    Three ISSCC 2020 papers accepted

    Three papers exploring various CMOS-based THz microsystems are accepted to the Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2020.

  • Sep 25, 2019

    CMOS-NV quantum sensing reported by MIT News

    The research work on CMOS-NV quantum sensing is reported by MIT News today.

  • Sep 24, 2019

    Group to collaborate with NASA JPL on THz molecular clock

    The group will collaborate with the scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to develop THz molecular clocks for deep-space applications.

  • Sep 10, 2019

    Ruonan Han named MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer

    Prof. Ruonan Han is selected as one of three Distinguished Microwave Lecturers of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), giving seminars globally on chip-scale wave-matter interactions for molecular identification, time-keeping, quantum sensing, etc.

  • Jun 24, 2019

    Nature Electronics paper on room-temperature CMOS quantum magnetometer

    Our group will publish a paper on Nature Electronics reporting a room-temperature CMOS quantum magnetometer using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. This is a collaboration with Prof. Dirk Englund's group at MIT. D. Kim, M. Ibrahim, and C. Foy equally contributed.

  • May 14, 2019

    Jimmy Mawdsley wins David Adler Thesis Award and Morris Joseph Leven Award

    Jimmy Mawdsley, with his M.Eng. thesis 'Terahertz Frequency Synthesis in CMOS for a Chip-Scale Molecular Clock', won both the MIT EECS David Adler Thesis Award and the Morris Joseph Leven Award for best Masterworks Thesis Presentation. Jimmy heads to SpaceX next.

  • Apr 20, 2019

    Invited talk at IFCS 2019

    Prof. Ruonan Han gave an invited talk at the 2019 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS) about the group's research on compact molecular clocks based on THz spectroscopy.

  • Mar 7, 2019

    Invited review article in IEEE Microwave Magazine

    Our invited review article 'Filling the Gap: Silicon Terahertz Integrated Circuits Offer Our Best Bet' is published in IEEE Microwave Magazine, arguing that the well-known 'THz Gap' is in fact two-dimensional and describing our efforts to fill it.

  • Feb 26, 2019

    Ruonan Han receives 2018 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award

    Prof. Ruonan Han received the 2018 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in the Systems Integration sector, presented by Gilroy Vandentop (Director, Intel Corporate University Research) and Mike Mayberry (Intel CTO), recognizing progress on sub-THz transceivers for ultra-broadband wireline communications. Collaborator: Dr. Georgios C. Dogiamis (Intel Component Research, Chandler, AZ). The other 2018 recipients are Sharad Malik (Princeton), Fred Chong (Chicago), and Diego Klabjan (Northwestern).

  • Feb 20, 2019

    Mohamed Ibrahim presents scalable quantum magnetometer at ISSCC

    At ISSCC 2019, Mohamed Ibrahim presented his paper on a scalable quantum magnetometer on CMOS.

  • Feb 14, 2019

    Zhi Hu's THz CMOS heterodyne imaging sensor headlines MIT News

    Zhi Hu's work on the large-scale, high-density THz CMOS heterodyne imaging sensor features the headline of MIT News today.

  • Feb 12, 2019

    Two invited papers in IEEE JSSC

    Two invited papers will appear in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Cheng Wang's April-issue paper details the physics and circuits of the CMOS sub-THz molecular clock. Zhi Hu's May-issue paper describes the design and new experimental results of a 32-unit, 240 GHz heterodyne array in CMOS.

2018

  • Oct 30, 2018

    Ruonan Han joins IMS TPC and IEEE T-VLSI editorial board

    Prof. Han joins the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the IEEE Intl. Microwave Symposium (IMS) and serves as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Very-Large-Scale-Integration Systems.

  • Oct 26, 2018

    Quantum magnetometer paper accepted to ISSCC 2019

    Mohamed Ibrahim's paper 'A Scalable Quantum Magnetometer in 65nm CMOS with Vector-Field Detection Capability' is accepted to the Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Co-authors: Chris Foy, Dirk Englund, and Ruonan Han.

  • Aug 17, 2018

    Jimmy Mawdsley named Siebel Scholar

    Jimmy Mawdsley is named a Siebel Scholar — congratulations on this prestigious award.

  • Aug 8, 2018

    NSF RAISE program — quantum-information processing platform collaboration

    Our group will collaborate with the Quantum Photonics Lab (Prof. Dirk Englund) and the Quanta Research Group (Prof. Isaac Chuang) at MIT on a very-large-scale integrated electronics-and-photonics platform for quantum-information processing, supported by the NSF Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) program.

  • Jul 26, 2018

    NSF SpecEES program — secure sub-THz tagging

    Our group and the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems Group led by Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan at MIT will be supported by the SpecEES (Spectrum Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and Security) program of the NSF to jointly innovate tagging devices using highly-secured sub-THz transmission.

  • Jul 19, 2018

    Cheng Wang passes RQE

    Congratulations to Cheng Wang on passing his research qualifying exam (RQE).

  • Jul 16, 2018

    Molecular clock paper on cover of Nature Electronics

    Our chip-scale molecular clock paper features on the cover of the July issue of Nature Electronics and on the MIT homepage. Congratulations to Cheng Wang, James Mawdsley, Mina Kim, Y. Xiang, and Zihan Wang.

  • Jul 13, 2018

    Nature Electronics paper on molecular clock

    A new paper on the molecular clock — a low-cost miniaturized frequency reference with atomic-clock-grade stability — is published in Nature Electronics. The paper describes the fundamental physics, experimental data using carbonyl sulfide, lab-scale and chip-scale prototypes, and stability analysis. Congratulations to Cheng Wang and the molecular clock team (James Mawdsley, Mina Kim, Y. Xiang, Zihan Wang).

  • Jul 11, 2018

    NSF grant for THz molecular clock

    The NSF has granted the Terahertz Integrated Electronics Group at MIT an award supporting work on CMOS-based THz molecular clocks, combining molecular rotation with state-of-the-art circuits/architecture for enhanced stability and energy efficiency.

  • May 16, 2018

    Multiple invited talks announced

    Prof. Ruonan Han will deliver a keynote at the 2019 German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) in Stuttgart (March 25, 2019) and give invited talks at: RFIC Symposium (Philadelphia, June 2018); PIERS (Toyama, August 2018); EuMW (Madrid, September 2018); ICSICT (Qingdao, Nov. 2018); SiRF (Orlando, FL, Jan. 2019).

  • Apr 2, 2018

    Two VLSI 2018 paper presentations

    Two works on chip-scale wave-matter interactions are presented at the IEEE VLSI Circuit Symposium in Honolulu. Mohamed Ibrahim demonstrates, for the first time, ODMR of NV centers in diamond using a CMOS chip (collaboration with Prof. D. Englund's group). Cheng Wang presents an 'atomic clock on CMOS chip' using a low-power, compact sub-THz spectrometer — also selected as the technical highlight of the conference.

  • Feb 12, 2018

    240 GHz heterodyne array paper accepted to RFIC 2018

    Our 240 GHz large-scale heterodyne sensing array paper (Zhi Hu, first author) is accepted to the 2018 IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Symposium. The CMOS chip integrates 32 heterodyne receivers with a fully-integrated phase-locked LO generator, achieving 6× the sensitivity of prior square-law detector arrays and electronically steering two concurrent narrow beams.

  • Feb 12, 2018

    Ruonan Han promoted to Associate Professor (without Tenure)

    Prof. Ruonan Han is promoted to Associate Professor without Tenure (AWOT), effective July 1, 2018.

2017

  • Dec 25, 2017

    Two invited IEEE JSSC papers

    Two invited papers in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (December 2017 and May 2018 issues) detail our THz frequency-comb-based spectrometer on a CMOS chip and our 1-THz radiation source on a SiGe chip.

  • Dec 20, 2017

    Ruonan Han joins RFIC Symposium TPC

    Prof. Han joined the IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Symposium Technical Program Committee.

  • Dec 7, 2017

    IEDM 2017 invited talk

    For the second year in a row, Prof. Ruonan Han delivered an invited talk at the IEEE Intl. Electron Device Meetings (IEDM), presenting the group's progress in large-scale homogeneous and heterogeneous THz arrays and future trends for ultra-high-resolution sensing and broadband spectroscopy.

  • Nov 1, 2017

    Invited talks at MWSCAS and European Microwave Symposium

    Prof. Ruonan Han gave two invited talks recently at the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) and the IEEE European Microwave Symposium.

  • Sep 1, 2017

    Three new members join the group

    Dr. Xiang Yi (formerly research scientist at NTU Singapore) joined as a post-doctoral researcher. Mina Kim (B.S. & M.S., Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) and Muhamed Ibrahim Khan (B.S., NUST, Pakistan; M.S., KAIST, Korea) joined as PhD students.

  • Jun 10, 2017

    Ruonan Han joins IMS Steering Committee

    Prof. Ruonan Han joined the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Steering Committee.

  • Jun 4, 2017

    Zhi Hu wins RFIC 2017 Best Student Paper Award (2nd place)

    Zhi Hu's paper on a large-scale 1-THz radiator array in SiGe won the best student paper award (2nd place) at the 2017 IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Symposium. The work achieves record total radiated power (0.1 mW) in the mid-THz range among silicon electronic chips, with up to 91 coherent active radiators in 1 mm². The award was presented by RFIC TPC Chair Dr. Kevin Kobayashi.

  • Feb 8, 2017

    ISSCC 2017 paper on broadband THz molecular sensing

    Cheng Wang presented a paper at ISSCC 2017 introducing high parallelism into broadband THz molecular sensing using a pair of CMOS frequency-comb chips, successfully obtaining ultra-narrow rotational spectral lines of molecules.

  • Feb 5, 2017

    High-power 1-THz radiation source accepted to RFIC 2017

    Zhi Hu's paper on a high-power radiation source at 1 THz using 130-nm SiGe HBT technology is accepted to the IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2017), to be presented in June 2017 in Honolulu.

  • Feb 3, 2017

    Jack Holloway passes PhD RQE

    Congratulations to Jack Holloway on passing his Ph.D. research qualifying exam.

  • Feb 1, 2017

    Two travel/pitch awards

    Cheng Wang won an IEEE MTT Boston Travel Grant; Guo Zhang won the MIT MARC 2017 Best Pitch Award.

  • Jan 31, 2017

    NSF CAREER Award

    Prof. Ruonan Han won the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (NSF CAREER) Award, funding research and education on chip-scale electronic frequency combs at terahertz frequencies for energy-efficient and broadband sensing and imaging.

2016

  • Dec 7, 2016

    IEDM 2016 invited talk

    Prof. Ruonan Han gave an invited talk at IEDM 2016 in the focus session 'Ultra-High Speed Electronics', alongside top researchers in THz technologies from Northrop Grumman, UCSB, RPI, and others. The talk covered the group's progress in silicon-based THz sources, sensors, and interconnects, and a vision for future energy-efficient THz microsystems.

  • Dec 1, 2016

    MIT Lincoln Labs grant

    Our group receives a grant from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and will collaborate with their chemists on research into molecular behaviors and interactions with THz chip devices for homeland-security sensing, navigation, etc.

  • Sep 24, 2016

    Two new members

    Mohamed Ibrahim joins the group as a Ph.D. student and Jimmy Mawdsley joins as a SuperUROP student. Welcome!

  • Aug 24, 2016

    Talk at 2016 RFIT workshop

    Prof. Ruonan Han gave a talk in the THz technology workshop of the 2016 IEEE Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT) conference.

  • Jun 11, 2016

    Dr. Rui Ma joins as visiting scientist

    Dr. Rui Ma from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories joins as a visiting scientist. Welcome!

  • Jun 1, 2016

    David Elliott Williams graduates

    David Elliott Williams graduates with an M.Eng. studying avalanche breakdown in THz silicon devices for sensing and metrology applications. David is heading to SpaceX and will then join Caltech as a Ph.D. student.

  • Jan 28, 2016

    Cheng Wang wins ADI Outstanding Student Designer Award

    Cheng Wang won the 2016 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award. Congratulations!

  • Jan 28, 2016

    Fully-integrated THz heterodyne imaging system at ISSCC 2016

    A fully-integrated THz heterodyne imaging system is presented at ISSCC 2016, in collaboration between Cornell University, MIT, and STMicroelectronics.

2015

  • Oct 11, 2015

    Tingting Shi joins as visiting student

    Tingting Shi from Fudan University joins the group as a visiting student. Welcome!

  • Sep 1, 2015

    Three new PhD students join

    Cheng Wang, Zhi Hu, and Guo Zhang join the group as Ph.D. students. Welcome!

  • May 30, 2015

    Pranav Kaundinya graduates

    Pranav Kaundinya graduates from the group and joins Silicon Labs (Austin, TX) as an analog circuit designer. His M.Eng. thesis explores a topological approach to synthesizing high-frequency resonance without large physical inductors.

  • Feb 4, 2015

    Jack Holloway joins as PhD student

    Captain Jack Holloway joins the group as a Ph.D. student and receives the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Military Fellowship. Welcome, Jack!

2014

  • Oct 29, 2014

    Ruonan Han appointed E. E. Landsman Career Chair

    Ruonan Han is appointed as the E. E. Landsman (1958) Career Chair.

  • Oct 13, 2014

    High-power THz transmitter accepted to ISSCC 2015

    Prof. Han's paper on a high-power THz transmitter is accepted to ISSCC 2015. The chip demonstrates record radiated power (3.3 mW at 320 GHz) in silicon THz sources.

  • Sep 16, 2014

    Pranav Kaundinya joins as M.Eng. student

    Pranav joined as an M.Eng. student. Welcome!

  • Jul 14, 2014

    Group website is online

    The group website is online.

  • Jul 1, 2014

    Ruonan Han joins MIT EECS faculty

    Ruonan Han joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.