Better video encoding for 360° virtual reality

UCSB engineering researchers receive $40,000 gift to investigate methods of compression for data generated by 360° video

Partnership between UCSB and Anton Paar yields better instrumentation

In parternship with lab instrumentation manufacturer Anton Paar, UCSB researchers have helped in the development of new instrumentation and measurement methods for a new state-of-the-art rheometer

Isomax™: The world’s first metamaterial to achieve the performance predicted by theoretical bounds

UCSB scientists have proven that their concept of a three-dimensional pyramid-and-cross cell geometry could potentially by the strongest performance structure yet developed

World's smallest hammer created to enhance brain research

The μHammer, created by UCSB reserachers, will transform our understanding of how cells process and respond to force-based signals

Materials researchers master electrical properties of polymer semiconductors

This new method will allow for the efficient design and manufacture of organic circuitry

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

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