MIT class 6.2540 (Nanotechnology: From Atoms to Systems) invites undergrads to spend over nine weeks inside MIT.nano’s labs, learning basic skills that allow them to apply their knowledge of the nanoscale to design and build spectrometers, make quantum dots, fabricate light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and tunneling chemical sensors, and test and package their sensors into active displays and systems.
Anna Osherov, assistant director for Characterization.nano at MIT's MIT.nano, helps researchers navigate state-of-the-art technologies such as electron microscopy and spectroscopy, as well as instruments that measure mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and topographic properties so they can apply the power of nanoscience and nanotechnology to new discoveries and inventions.