Group photo of professor Farnaz Niroui with student members.
Devices with sub-nm tunability for nanoscale sensors and actuators
Nanoparticle contact printing for deterministic integration into functional structures.
On-site growth of halide perovskite nanocrystals enabling on-chip nanoLEDs
Molecular device for energy-efficient computing

Our research pushes the limits of nanoscale engineering through the fabrication and dynamic tuning of materials and structures with unprecedented control reaching the atomic scale. This leads to the emergence of unique properties and phenomena emerge across physical domains—including electrical, optical, mechanical, and ionic—enabling novel control over light–matter interactions, electronic transport, and exciton dynamics. We investigate and harness these phenomena to develop active and multifunctional devices and systems that establish new paradigms for computing, sensing, and transduction, advancing next-generation intelligent physical systems, distributed sensing, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies

News

Hohyeon has been awarded the MIT EECS MathWorks Fellowship. 

Farnaz has been awarded the Hilton Head Rising Stars of Microsystems Award. 

Farnaz, Peter, Sarah and Hohyeon present our work at the Hiton Head Workshop. 

Farnaz presents our work on additive manufacturing toward the atomic scale at EIPBN conference.  

Our recent publication on the deterministic growth of perovskite nanocrystals and development of nanoLEDs has been selected to be featured as part of the Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights. 

Our work on the on-site growth of perovskite nanocrystals for the development of integrated on-chip devices such as arrays of nanoLEDs is now published in Nature Communications and featured on MIT News.

Peter has been awarded the 2023 EECS Department Head’s Special Recognition Award for his invaluable contributions to the EECS  Graduate Admission Task Force.  
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