In the News
April 30, 2026 – Information Technology % Innovation Foundation – Virtual panel on “Strengthening America’s Edge in Priority Technologies of the 21st Century.
December 11, 2025 – MIT News – New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics
July 22, 2025 – Tyra Espedal featured as future innovator by SRC
February 23, 2025 – Brighter Side of News – New nanoscale transistors use quantum tunneling to achieve high performance and efficiency
November 4, 2024 – MIT News – Nanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics
May 16, 2024 – Phys.Org – Researchers develop a detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases
May 1, 2024 – MTL News – Yanjie Shao and Jesús del Alamo receive Intels 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award
April 2024 – Intel’s 2023 Outstanding Researcher Awards Recognize Fifteen Academic Researchers – And among them are Yanjie Shao and Jesus del Alamo
October 24, 2023 – The Nano Summit: Celebrating five years of MIT.nano – Roundtable on Advanced Electronics with Jesus del Alamo as moderator
October, 2023 – Podcast at The Microzone from IEEE Microsystems Boston – Episode 2 Professor Jesus del Alamo, MIT
June 26, 2023 – IEEE Podcast Series with Electron Devices Society Luminaries – Episode 27 Professor Jesus del Alamo
December 2, 2022 – IEEE Spectrum – Computing With Chemicals Makes Faster, Leaner AI; Battery-inspired artificial synapses are gaining ground
July 22, 2022 – NPR Science Friday – Major Semiconductor Support Bill Passes First Hurdle
July 20, 2022 – NPR Ohio – Jesus del Alamo at All Sides with Ann Fisher discussing the domestic chip manufacturing industry (Jesus starts at 3240)
June 16, 2022 – The Washington Post – Jesus del Alamo in A high-tech village is working to solve Americas chip shortage
May 11, 2022 – INFER – Fireside Chat with Jesus del Alamo on Reasserting U.S. Leadership in Microelectronics
March 30, 2022 – The Register – MIT, Amazon, TSMC, ASML and friends to work on non-planet-killing AI hardware
March 29, 2022 – MIT News – New MIT AI Hardware Program launches to bolster innovation in next-generation artificial intelligence hardware
March 3, 2022 – MIT News – Visit of the Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to MIT
January 31, 2022 – Bloomberg Radio – Interview with Jesus del Alamo on semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. (interview starts at 23:30 minutes)
January 19, 2022 – EurekAlert! – Reasserting US leadership in microelectronics
January 19, 2022 – MIT News – Reasserting U.S. leadership in microelectronics
January 14, 2022 – MIT News – Clean room as a classroom
January 11, 2022 – The Register – Jesus del Alamo comments on US microelectronics industry
November 11, 2021 – MIT Spectrum – Bird Model Tapped for AI
August 4, 2021 – MIT News – A collaboration between MIT and Ericsson explores new materials for artificial intelligence hardware
January 2021 – IEEE Awards – Jesus del Alamo recipient of 2021 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award one of IEEE Technical Field Awards
January 3, 2021 – Brinkwire – MIT Discovery Offers New Promise for Nonsilicon Computer Transistors
December 10, 2020 – Engineering and Technology – MIT study suggests promise for non-silicon transistors
December 2020 – MIT News – Discovery suggests new promise for nonsilicon computer transistors
June 2020 – MIT News – Engineers design a device that operates like a brain synapse
November 2019 – MIT News – Smart systems for semiconductor manufacturing
November 2019 – Semiconductor Industry Association – Jesus del Alamo honored with 2019 University Research Award of Semiconductor Industry Association and Semiconductor Research Corporation
September 2019 – Semiconductor Today – Thermal atomic layer etching of III-arsenide semiconductors; Process used to fabricate fin transistors with 2.5 nm channel width
August 16, 2019 – Semiconductor Today – Thermal Atomic Layer Etching of III-Arsenide Semiconductors
April 2019 – Materials Research Society News – Jesus del Alamo elected MRS Fellow with the class of 2019
December 2018 – January 2019 – Semiconductor Today – InGaAs FinFETs by Thermal Atomic Layer Etching noted in IEDM 2018 report
December 7, 2018 – MIT News – Engineers produce smallest 3-D transistor yet
June 28, 2018 – MTL News – Lisa Kong recipient of 2018 Outstanding Senior Thesis Award by Department of Materials Science and Engineering
February 12, 2018 – MTL News – Wenjie Lu recognized at the 2018 SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium
December 2017 – January 2018 – Semiconductor Today – InGaAs Vertinal Nanowire MOSFETs and InGaSb p-type FinFETs noted in IEDM 2017 report
September 12, 2017 – Wenjie Lu wins Best in Session Award at SRC TECHCON 2017
June 8, 2017 – MTL News – Allison Lemus wins SuperUROP Outstanding Research Project Award
June 5, 2017 – MTL News – Wenjie Lu wins Best Student Paper Award at Compound Semiconductor Week 2017 in Berlin
May 5, 2017 – IMECAS News – MIT Professor Jesus del Alamo visits IMECAS (in Chinese)
April 24, 2017 – Semiconductor Today – Alcohol-based digital etch on arsenide and antimonide III-V semiconductors
April 12, 2017 – MTL News – Alex Guo presented with IEEE IRPS 2016 Best Student Paper Award
January 4, 2017 – MTL News – Alex Guo selected for MTL 2016 Fall Doctoral Dissertation Seminar!
November 28, 2016 – XL Semanal – MIT, La Fábrica de Ideas (article about MIT through interviews with Spanish students, postdocs and faculty, including Jesus del Alamo; in Spanish)
November 28, 2016 – Desde Soria – Un profesor soriano trabajando desde hace 28 años en la mejor Universidad del mundo (article about Jesus del Alamo in his home town local newspaper, in Spanish)
September 2, 2016 – Semiconductor Today – Boosting transconductance in indium gallium arsenide finFETs
April 14, 2016 – Diario de Soria – El oxigeno de la tecnologia (article about the research of Jesus del Alamo at MIT, in spanish)
March 9, 2016 – Semiconductor Today – MIT claims III-V field-effect transistors with record transconductance
March 5, 2016 – Radio Nacional de España – Teresa Viejo in the radio program La Observadora interviews Jesus del Alamo (in spanish)
December 15, 2015 – MTL News – MTL Students, Alumni, and Faculty Win at IEDM 2015
December 3, 2015 – Echoes in Spain press on del Alamos Doctor Honoris Causa
November 30, 2015 – MTL News – Jesús del Alamo honored by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with Doctor Honoris Causa (video of event)
November 16, 2015 – MTL News – Jianqiang Lin received the 2015 Best PhD Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering
September 28, 2015 – MTL News – Jianqiang Lin recipient of 2015 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award.
August 31, 2015 – MTL News – Alex Guo honored as Graduate Women of Excellence
June 1, 2015 – MTL News – Jerome Lin receives award from the China Scholarship Council
May, 2015 – MIT EECS Announcement –
Shireen Warnock selected for 2015 Texas Instruments Graduate Women’s Fellow for Leadership in Microelectronics
February 19, 2015 – Semiconductor Engineering – Jesus del Alamo quoted in an article about III-V chips
February 6, 2015 – MTL News – Jianqiang Lin winner of 2014 IEDM Best Student Paper Award
January 26, 2015 – MIT News – Jesus del Alamo wins Bose Research Grant to investigate diamond transistors
January 15, 2015 – MTL News – del Alamo’s 2008 paper selected as one of the ten most influential papers presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in the last decade
December 17, 2014 – MIT EECS Announcement – Jesus del Alamo named Fellow of the American Physical Society
November 19, 2014 – MTL News – Wenjie Lu earns 2014 Ernst Guillemin Award for Best Master’s Thesis in Electrical Engineering
April 2014 – Semiconductor Today – Top-down InGaAs nanowire fabrication enabled by novel etch processing
March 2014 – Semiconductor Today – Comments on MIT’s three papers at IEDM 2013 on InGaAs MOSFETs for future logic
February 2014 – Semiconductor Today – Comments on MIT’s paper at IEDM 2013 on total current collapse in GaN HEMTs
December 2013 – En Positivo – Beyond Silicon, new gadgets made by microscopic technology
October 28, 2013 – MIT News Office – Jesús del Alamo named director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories
January 4, 2013 – MIT EECS Announcement – del Alamo cited for creating iLabs as recipient of 2012 EDS Education Award
December 12, 2012 – Semiconductor Today – MIT researchers make smallest working III-V transistors yet
December 10, 2012 – MIT website – Is this the new silicon?
September, 2012 – MIT News Office – del Alamo is awarded the Semiconductor Research Corporation 2012 Technical Excellence Award
June 20, 2012 – MIT News Office – Donghyun Jin awarded the ISPSD ’12 Charitat Award-Runner-up microelectronic devices
April 10, 2012 – MIT News Office – del Alamo is awarded 2012 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in Emerging Research Devices
March 2012 – R & D Magazine – Transistors promise more powerful logic, more logical power
June 2011 – The Global Herald – iLabs mentioned as an example of educational opportunities made available by the spread of optical fiber systems through Kenya
March 2011 – Electronics Letters – featured article on high-performance HEMT technology research at MIT
January 2011 – Semiconductor Today – article featuring Tae-Woo Kim’s paper at IEDM 2010 on self-aligned process for quantum-well III-V FETs
May/June 2010 – Technology Review – feature article about the MIT iLab project
March/April 2009 – Semiconductor Today – article featuring del Alamo’s group presentation at IEDM 2008 on traps studies in GaN HEMTs and ultra-high frequency InAs HEMTs
August, 2007 – MIT EECS Announcement – Announcement of del Alamo as next Donner Chair co-holder
February, 2007 – MIT Technology Insider – Semiconducting the Future
December 12, 2006 – MIT News Office – Beyond silicon:
New transistor technology may power next microelectronic devices
December 8, 2006 – Nanotechnology Now – Beyond silicon: MIT demonstrates new transistor technology
August 22, 2006 – MIT News Office – New housemasters move into East Campus
May/June, 2006 – Technology Review – After Silicon
March 24, 2006 – Inside Higher Ed – Mi Lab Es Su Lab
Spring 2006 – Carnegie Reporter – Linking African Universities with MIT iLabs
March 15, 2006 – Technology Review – del Alamo quoted on the hurdles faced by chipmakers when looking at new materials for transistors other than silicon.
March 2, 2006 – del Alamo named IEEE Fellow
April 29, 2005 – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Internet Link Will Give 3 African Universities Access to MIT Labs
March 21, 2005 – MIT News Office – African students get web link to MIT labs
March 21, 2005 – EETimes.com – MIT expands remote labs to Africa
March 12, 2003 – MIT News Office – del Alamo selected as MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT
Fall 2001 – MIT Spectrum – Online Lab – Students Measure Real Transistors Over The Web
March 14, 2001 – MIT News Office – MIT pioneers online microelectronics lab
2001 – Microsoft Research, Current Research – iLab: A High-Tech Learning Solution
September 2000 – Prism – Teaching Toolbox – The Virtues of Virtual Labs