The Blumenthal lab continues to miniaturize powerful photonics technology for quantum use at the chip scale.
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Dan Blumenthal in his lab. Photograph by Matt Perko.
Mar 04, 2025
Concept illustration of nickel atoms placed on a silver catalyst for improved, safer, more environmentally friendly performance.
Feb 26, 2025
PhD student Anika Jalil overcomes a major challenge by placing the right number of nickel atoms in exactly the right place.
Jeff Sakamoto; photograph by Lilli Walker
Feb 24, 2025
A new study finds that adding certain dopants could lead to safer, more energy-efficient batteries.
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q's 2025 conference. Used with permission of Microsoft.
Feb 21, 2025
A Microsoft team led by UCSB physicists unveils a first-of-its-kind topological qubit, paving the way for a more fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Disk-shaped robots can act collectively to accomplish tasks such as lifting and manipulating objects, or supporting weight. Artwork created by Brian Long
Feb 21, 2025
UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators have developed a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology.
Concept illustration of the electro-optic response in AlScN, by Haochen Wang and ChuanNan Li
Feb 14, 2025
Illuminating a path to superior electro-optic performance in aluminum scandium nitride alloys.
Researchers who captured fluid finding its way through a maze now understand what drove the counterintuitive phenomenon.
Feb 03, 2025
Explaining a quirky phenomenon from a seven-year-old experiment that became an art piece.
A spheroid of mammary epithelial cells encapsulated in a 3D hydrogel simulating the tumor microenvironment.
Jan 07, 2025
Bioengineer Ryan Stowers receives a pair of substantial awards to fund biomedical research.
Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low -line-width laser
Dec 13, 2024
Researchers in Daniel Blumenthal's lab work to re-create the performance of bench-top lasers on tiny devices.
Tinish Bhattacharya pauses for a moment in his UCSB lab.
Dec 10, 2024
PhD student leads development of architecture to compute high-degree polynomial gradients in-memory.
Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array. Illustration by Brian Long
Dec 04, 2024
An international team develops a faster, more durable optical platform for in-memory computation.
A collaboration between UCSB and UCLA faculty, known as the BioPACIFIC MIP, to design novel materials is one of many examples of the interdisciplinary sciences research being conducted on the UCSB campus.
Dec 02, 2024
The inaugural rankings included nearly 750 universities from around the world.
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