MIT.nano Job Opening: Applications Engineer

The Applications Engineer will play a key role in implementing and maintaining MIT.nano’s lab management system – NanoFab Equipment Management & Operations (NEMO) MIT.nano is a large shared services facility with over 1,000 users and hundreds of tools and instruments. NEMO, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is an open source web application used to schedule reservations, enable/disable tools, track maintenance issues, track tool usage, and more.

Woburn startup could give US solar industry a second chance

Check out Active Surfaces, a member of START.nano, in the Boston Globe! 

Based on techniques developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Active Surfaces was launched in 2022. The company prints solar cells onto a plastic sheet, using methods not too different from those used to print newspapers. The resulting cells can generate electric power nearly as efficiently as today’s heavy, thick silicon panels. Read more.

Faces of MIT: Melissa Smith PhD ’12

The associate leader in the Advanced Materials and Microsystems Group at Lincoln Laboratory strongly believes in the power of collaboration and how it seeds innovation.