UCSB Engineering

Elliott Brown

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contacts

2205C Engineering Science Building
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: 805 893-7562
fax: 805 893-3262
erbrown@ece.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Biography

Elliott Brown is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California. Santa Barbara. He is teaching courses in solid-state engineering, RF sensors, and THz science, and is conducting research in the THz field in several areas including ultra-low-noise rectifiers, photomixing sources, the THz phenomenology of biomaterials, and THz remote sensor and imager design and simulation. Other areas of research include multifunctional RF electronics and systems, and biomedical ultrasonic imaging in hard tissue, particularly imaging in human teeth in collaboration with the UCLA Dental and Medical Schools. Prior to UCSB Dr. Brown was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and prior to that was a Program Manager at DARPA in the Electronics Technology Office, Arlington, VA. He earned a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1985, and did his post-doctoral work at Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Brown is a Fellow of the IEEE (since 2000) and a Member of the American Physical Society. In 1998 he received an Award for Outstanding Achievement from the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Affiliations

• Advisory Board, Microfabrica Corp.
• Adjunct Professor, UCLA Electrical Engineering
• Materials Research Laboratory
• Institute for Quantum and Complex Dynamics

Awards/Honors

• IEEE Fellowship, 2000
• Award for Outstanding Achievement, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1998

Selected Publications