DMSE Facilities

DMSE's most valuable facility is the people who make up the faculty, staff, and students in the Department but the physical facilities are also impressive.

DMSE is spread out over seven buildings in MIT's main campus. The Department occupies over 45,000 square feet of lab space which is used by hundreds of researchers, including faculty, research scientists, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers (UROPs). Among the laboratories are the Magnetic and Materials Devices Laboratory, the Electronic Materials Research Group, the Crystal Physics and Electroceramics Laboratory, the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE), and the Polymer Mechanics Laboratory. The most recently opened space is the NanoMechanical Technology Laboratory (the NanoLab). This lab contains new nanoindenters that probe and measure the properties of surfaces of engineering and biological materials.

DMSE researchers also make extensive use of MIT's NSF-supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), known locally as the Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE). CMSE has state-of-the-art Shared Experimental Facilities for Analysis, X-ray Diffraction, Electron Microscopy, and Crystal Growth.

The Department will benefit from the PDSI (Physics, DMSE, Spectroscopy, Infrastructure) renovations. This project began in June 2005 and is expected to continue through 2006. These renovations will change the MIT facilities through replacing and modernizing the physical plant and adding new capabilities. See the PDSI site for specific information about the project. See the DMSE renovations site for information about the project as it relates to the Department.