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• SUPREME Center held its first annual review meeting at Cornell University. According to SRC JUMP 2.0 Executive Director Roman Caudillo (Intel), "The center is off to a strong start thanks to Center Directors Huili (Grace) Xing and Tomás Palacios". Tomás Palacios, is the Clarence J. LeBel Professor at EECS Department at MIT and Huili (Grace) Xing is theWilliam L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Read more about this post on LinkedIn.

• Prof. Palacios is recognized for his groundbreaking research, excellent mentoring and teaching, and exceptional contributions to the EECS department and MIT. June 15th, 2023. Read More.

• Jiadi Zhu and Prof. Palacios' research on atomically thin transistors on top of computer chips could lead to undiscovered possibilities of 2D materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and tungsten diselenide (WSe2) for high-performance state-of-the-art for nanoscale transistors for future technology nodes. April 27th, 2023. Read More.

• Our group engineer Jiadi Zhu featured in MIT News article MIT engineers “grow” atomically thin transistors on top of computer chips. April 27th, 2023. Read More.

• Tomás Palacios, Director of Microsystems Technology Laboratories and Professor of EECS at MIT is the Associate Director of the SUPREME center under the DARPA and SRC's Jump 2.0 Consortium Program with a goal to target Microelectronics Innovation. Jan 11th, 2023. Read More. 

• MIT tops the FORBES List again, on February 15th, 2023. Read More.

• When Microsystems and Excellence join hands, MARC 2023 happens - A Student-led conference MARC 2023, highlights --> Read More.

• DARPA and SRC invest more than $250 million in 7 Joint University Microelectronics Programs (JUMP 2.0), Forbes, Jan 6, 2023. Read More

• Prof. Tomas Palacios, Associate Director of SUPeRior Energy-efficient Materials and dEvices (SUPREME) Center. Read more in detail below.

  • EECS News, MIT, Feb 28th, 2023

  • Semiconductor-Today, Jan 9th, 2023

  • Cornell University to lead SUPREME, Jan 5th, 2023

  • Forbes, Jan 6th, 2023​

  • BusinessWire, Jan 4th, 2023

  • JUMP 2.0, SRC

  • PennState to lead SUPeRior Energy-efficient Materials and dEvices (SUPREME) Center, Jan 5th, 2023

  • SRC leads the JUMP 2.0 which includes DARPA and 6 other research centers, on Jan 6th, 2023.

  • JUMP 2.0 Consortium targets Microelectronics Innovation, Phototonics, Jan 11th, 2023

  • GeorgiaTech news on JUMP 2.0, Jan 5th, 2023

• Prof. Tomás Palacios assumes as the new Director of Microsystems Technology Laboratories(MTL)

  • MTL News, December 14th, 2022

  • MIT News, December 15th, 2022

  • Semiconductor Today, December 15th, 2022

  • TechnologyForYou, December 16th, 2022

• Palacios group researchers were featured in Semiconductor Today for their research in robust mixed-signal systems operating in High Temperatures using GaN. Click here to read more, December 9th, 2022.

• Tomás Palacios investing in the future of Microelectronics. Read the latest article on MA Microelectronics Internship Program (MMIP). To visit the MMIP website click here. September 26th, 2022

• Tomás's take on the current status of the Semiconductor Industry. Featured in the LA Daily Journal, August 2022. Read more.

• Palacios group researchers published their article on an Integrated biosensor platform based on graphene transistor arrays for real-time high-accuracy ion sensing in Nature Communications journal. Click here to read the full article. August 27th, 2022.

• Finwave Semiconductor Addresses the 5G Challenge with Breakthrough 3DGaN™ FinFET Technology, according to co-founder Tomás Palacios. Click here to read more. June 14th, 2022.

• Tomás leads 100-year-old 6-A M.Eng Program with the goal to unlock a new door to AI solutions. Click here to read more. MIT News, March 4th, 2022.

• 6A Program Highlight: Unlocking new doors to artificial intelligence. Click here to read more. MIT News, March 4th, 2022.

• Soft assistive robotic wearables get a boost from rapid design tool. Click here to read more. MIT News, May 3rd, 2022

• Reasserting U.S. leadership in microelectronics, Click here to read more. MIT News, January 19th, 2022.

News Archives

• MIT and Ericsson enter collaboration agreements to research the next generation of mobile networks. August 2021. Read more.

• George E. Smith Award to Palacios journal article,2019. Read more.

• Transparent graphene electrodes might lead to a new generation of solar cells. June 2020. Read more.

• Getting Ready for GaN CMOS. Read more.

• Researchers imagine devices without cords or batteries (US Army). March 2020. Read more.

• The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials featured in NY Times. July 2020. Read More.

• Smoothing out the wrinkles in graphene. March 2019. Read More.

• Technique streamlines fabrication of 2-D circuits featured in MIT News. Read More.

• Scientists create super-thin ‘sheet’ that could charge our phones featured in The Guardian. Read More.

• Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materials, MIT News. Read More.