Discussing the impact of the photonics revolution on medicine, communications, and defense

A Q&A with Professor John Bowers

Powerful new research technique reveals the mechanical environment of cells in their natural habitat

Scientists at UCSB develop a powerful new technique that reveals for the first time the mechanical environment that cells perceive in living tissues

Trace metal recombination centers kill LED efficiency

UCSB researchers warn that trace amounts of transition metal impurities act as recombination centers in gallium nitride semiconductors

Bringing wifi technology to remote Native American reservation communities

$550K NSF grant helps Computer Science Professor Elizabeth Belding bring wireless technology to rural inland native communities

Engineers design functional nanoscale computing device

Key to this development is the use of a logic system called material implication logic combined with memristors

Engineers to study sediment fluid mechanics in International Space Station lab

Professors Meiburg and Luzzatto-Fegiz awareded NSF grant to design sediment fluid mechanics study to be conducted in zero gravity

The state and potential of two-dimensional van der Waals materials

Physics Today article co-written by Professor Kaustav Banerjee dives into the physics, technology, and device applications of 2D materials such as graphene

Boldly going into microfluidics where no one had gone before

Mechanical Engineering Professor Carl Meinhart reflects on how growing up on a farm inspired him to pursue mechanical engineering and groundbreaking microfluidics research.

Rare iodine polymer discovery is key to starch-iodine mystery

Materials researchers at UCSB have observed a rare single-element infinite iodide polymer chain

Haptics engineers first to map touch sensation using custom hand sensors

Professor Yon Visell's haptics research group maps the hand's touch sensation by mapping vibration on the skin at a fast resolution

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