MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories

Congratulations to Eunseok Lee, recipient of the Spring 2026 MTL Doctoral Dissertation Award!

Eunseok was recognized for his groundbreaking research on novel applications of terahertz and low-power silicon electronics for ultra-miniaturized secure hardware.

Congratulations, Eunseok, on this well-deserved achievement!

Congratulations to all of our MTL Hackathon winners for your hard work, ingenuity, and dedication — and thank you to every student, mentor, judge, researcher, and industry partner who helped make the weekend such a success.

We’re excited to see where these ideas go next. 🚀

- Track 1: Circuits, RF/Analog/Digital - Spicy Circuits (Hassan Al Lail, Mena Filfil, Jake Li)
- Track 2: Devices, Process Flow, Models & Packaging - Chilly Chiplet (Zixuan Brian Wu, Dinesh Kinjangi, Edgar Sutawika)
- Track 3: Education & Workforce Development - SOPy Times (Tamar Korkotashvili, Adrienne Lai, Ada Erus)
- Track 4: Fabrication & Manufacturing - Silicon Paella (Xabier Bastida, Patricia Garcia, Ivan Piris)
- Most Popular Choice Across All Tracks: MTL;DR (Abutalib Namazov, Arda Ozdemir, Deniz Erus)

Photos by Zhongyunshen Zhu

⚡️What a weekend at the first-ever MTL Hackathon: AI for Microelectronics

From May 8-10, nearly 100 undergraduates & graduate students came together with 20+ industry participants for 48 hours of innovation, collaboration, and nonstop hacking.

💡20 teams
🛠️4 challenge tracks
⏱️48 hours

Projects span:
- Circuit design
- Devices & Modeling
- Manufacturing & processing
- Education & workforce development

Participants also heard from leaders across industry, startups, venture capitalists, and academia, while MTL graduate students led hands-on tutorials throughout the weekend.

A huge thank you to our speakers and graduate student presenters for making the event such a success!

💡A new breakthrough from researchers at MIT could help power the next generation of compact, high-performance LiDAR systems.

Using advanced silicon-photonics chip design, the team developed a way to reduce signal interference and improve beam steering, enabling wider field-of-view sensing without moving parts.

This innovation could impact
-autonomous vehicles
-robotics
-AR/VR technologies
-Advanced sensing systems

Read more at the link in bio!

AI is powerful, but it also uses a lot of energy. What if we could predict that energy use in seconds?

Researchers at MIT have developed EnergAIzer, a new tool that quickly estimates how much power an AI workload will consume on specific hardware. Instead of running lengthy tests, this method delivers reliable predictions almost instantly, helping data centers allocate resources more efficiently and reduce wasted energy.

Read more at the link in bio!

AI 🤝 Microelectronics

The future is being built at MTL. Are you in?

Join us for the first MTL Hackathon: AI for Microelectronics
May 8-10, 2026 | MIT Stata Center

Register & learn more at mtl-hackathon.mit.edu or the link in our bio!

We’ve enjoyed hearing from many experts so far in our MTL seminar series, including insightful talks from Victor Li from TSMC, Milan Pešić from Applied Materials, Siddhartha Gosh from Northeastern University, & Taesung Kim from Sungkyunkwan University.

A reminder: if you’re unable to attend a seminar, we record and post most of them on our website. Check them out!

We look forward to the rest of the seminars this semester, check out the lineup at the link in our bio.

We’ve enjoyed hearing from many experts so far in our MTL seminar series, including insightful talks from Victor Li from TSMC, Milan Pešić from Applied Materials, Siddhartha Gosh from Northeastern University, & Taesung Kim from Sungkyunkwan University.

A reminder: if you’re unable to make it to a seminar, we record and post most seminars on our website! Check them out!

We look forward to the rest of our seminars this semester, view the line up at the link in our bio.

MTL Director, Tomas Palacios, was named director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN).

ISN advances fundamental science and engineering to develop next-generation materials and devices for solider protection, survivability, and sensing capabilities.

Tomas assumed the role on Feb. 4 and will continue to serve as director of MTL. Congratulations, Tomas!

Read more about ISN at the link in bio!

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a new photonic chip that can beam thousands of precise light signals into free space using tiny “ski-jump” structures to project images smaller than a grain of salt.

This breakthrough could unlock lighter AR displays, faster communications, and more powerful quantum technologies.

Read more at the link in bio!