Abstract
Engineering with Atomic Scale Building Blocks: From Complex Properties to Functional Devices
The growing demand for computing power and complexity has driven the urgent development of new paradigms in information processing. At the nanoscale, matter exhibits unconventional properties and complex dynamics, offering unique opportunities to address these challenges. However, the near-atomic-scale control required to access these functionalities is incompatible with conventional fabrication processes. By extending additive manufacturing principles to extreme nanoscale dimensions, we bridge this technological gap. This enables engineering of active heterostructures with complex, spatiotemporally controlled functionalities across diverse physical domains, serving as building blocks for energy-efficient and multifunctional information processing, which will be discussed in this talk.
Biography
Farnaz Niroui is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research pushes the limits of nanoscale engineering to develop new paradigms of active nanoscale devices and systems for next-generation multifunctional computing and sensing applications. Prior to MIT, Farnaz was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California Berkeley. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT and completed her undergraduate studies in Nanotechnology Engineering at University of Waterloo. Farnaz has been the recipient of awards including the DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Director’s Award, MIT EECS Outstanding Educator Award, and Junior Bose Award for Teaching Excellence.