ECE professor is recognized for using "low-dimensional" materials to advance nanoelectronics design.
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Daniel Oropeza, assistant professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara
Oct 21, 2024
UCSB materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza receives a prestigious $1 million grant to pursue research on ultra-high-temperature ceramics.
Oct 15, 2024
UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Chris Van de Walle receives top computational physics award given by American Physical Society.
Galan Moody (left) and John Bowers
Oct 15, 2024
The multi-team effort is aimed at making a key photonic device smaller, faster, and more precise.
Stephen Wilson, professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara
Oct 08, 2024
Peers recognized him for his pioneering work on quantum materials.
The success of a federal program is found to be funding-dependent.
Sep 27, 2024
Does the end of subsidies spell the loss of internet service for some rural areas?
Ram Seshadri and Raphaële Clement will work with colleagues to develop new battery technologies.
Sep 27, 2024
Ram Seshadri and Raphaële Clément join colleagues at multiple universities to address challenges around aqueous rechargeable batteries.
Lucas Erich, a materials PhD student at UCSB, received a prestigious NASA Fellowship connected to making a mission to Mars feasible.
Sep 18, 2024
Lucas Erich will pursue research connected to making a mission to Mars feasible.
Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza (far right) and his research group (left to right) Anthony Botros, Lucas Erich, and Logan Winston.
Sep 09, 2024
A UC Santa Barbara materials professor receives a junior-faculty award from his peers and a Navy research grant.
2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship recipients (clockwise from top left) Wesley Mills, Max Emerick, Griffin Tong, and Joshua Baston
Sep 09, 2024
The fellowship provides full tuition, monthly stipend, travel budget, and health insurance funding for three years.
Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions. Illustration by Fangzhou Zhao, Van de Walle group.
Sep 06, 2024
The $3-million award will enable investigation of little-understood physics in gallium-nitride devices.
Arnab Pal, the only student in the Americas and one of only three world-wide to receive this fellowship from the IEEE EDS.
Sep 05, 2024
UCSB doctoral graduate receives one of three such prizes awarded world-wide.
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