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The original meter-wide bench-top optical frequency synthesizer (top) shown with the new 1-centimeter-wide DODOS version on it, approximately to scale, and in expanded view (bottom)

Apr 30, 2018
Shrinking the Optical Synthesizer

Team led by CoE profs John Bowers and Luke Theogarajan achieves major accomplishment in miniaturization.

An illustration of a memristor as a cybersecurity device that appeared on the cover of Nature Electronics

Apr 27, 2018
An Ionic Black Box

UCSB researchers use emerging memory devices to develop electronic circuits for cybersecurity applications.

Source: UCSB Current
The human eye

Apr 11, 2018
Treating Vision Loss

A UCSB team helped create a retinal implant designed to replace support cells damaged by dry age-related macular degeneration

Source: UCSB Current
artist rendering of quantum dot-enhanced laser light emitted from silicon chip

Mar 27, 2018
Quantum Dots Enable Silicon-based Lasers

Quantum dots can improve efficiency of silicon-based lasers.

Source: Science News
Artist's interpretation of earth, satellite, Lidar circuit

Mar 06, 2018
NASA Project: Shrinking SWaP, Expanding Performance

With an eye to potential use in space, NASA-funded UCSB engineers will design Lidar circuits to monitor atmospheric components.

Image combining virtual reality, remote sensing and autonomous vehicles

Feb 26, 2018
Tuning Light to Direct It

A materials approach to steering light beams without moving parts.

 

Artist's depiction of the intercalated multilayer-graphene inductor (center blue spiral), which exploits kinetic inductance to catalyze the Internet of Things. Background images show its predecessors made of conventional metal spirals (top left) or discrete coil inductors, which work solely on the principle of magnetic inductance. Illustration by Peter Allen

Feb 14, 2018
Reinventing the Inductor — 200 Years Later

A key element in modern electronics, the inductor has barely changed since it was invented in 1831. A new materials approach yields a better alternative.

A bear with cubs at Sedgwick Reserve

Feb 13, 2018
Where's the Bear?

UCSB computer scientists combine big data and machine learning to sort through millions of images and support ecological research.

Source: UCSB Current
Cubic salt crystal aggragate

Jan 30, 2018
A Crystal Method

UCSB researchers unlock another piece of the crystal-growth puzzle.

Source: UCSB Current
LED projection

Jan 24, 2018
How Do LEDs Benefit the World? Shuji Nakamura Explains.

Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the blue LED. Here, he writes about the global impact of the energy-efficient lights.

Source: The National

Jan 24, 2018
A Scientific Soap Opera, Starring the Marangoni Effect

Fluid dynamics drive the action in a script featuring red dye, milk, and a maze of tension-induced interactions.

Source: The UCSB Current
Artists concept image showing city and points of communication connectivity

Jan 22, 2018
Beyond 5G: UCSB Named Lead for Ambitious New DARPA Project

Electrical and computer engineering professor Mark Rodwel to lead $27.5 million center for converged terahertz communications and sensing at UCSB. 

Source: UCSB Current

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