UCSB assistant professor Yon Visell has received an NSF CAREER award in recognition of his haptics research.
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Artist's interpretation illustrating ultra-sensitive sensors that may find use in advanced robotics and prosthetics Illustration by Brian Long
Apr 10, 2018
Mar 27, 2018
Quantum dots can improve efficiency of silicon-based lasers.
Mar 22, 2018
U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering graduate program No. 12 among public universities.
Professor Larry Coldren seated between his wife and Nobel Laureate Herb Kroemer
Mar 22, 2018
Larry Coldren was honored at a symposium: titled “A History of PICs (Photonic Integrated Circuits) and VCSELs (Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers)."
Mar 06, 2018
With an eye to potential use in space, NASA-funded UCSB engineers will design Lidar circuits to monitor atmospheric components.
Sensing the environment more quickly and efficiently would be a benefit in such areas as remote sensing, autonomous vehicles, and holographic displays.
Feb 26, 2018
A materials approach to steering light beams without moving parts.
Feb 21, 2018
Kevin O'Connor, former CEO of Graphiq, is the 2018 recipient of the Venky Award.
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
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
UCSB computer scientists combine big data and machine learning to sort through millions of images and support ecological research.
Cubic salt crystal aggragate
Jan 30, 2018
UCSB researchers unlock another piece of the crystal-growth puzzle.
Jan 24, 2018
Fluid dynamics drive the action in a script featuring red dye, milk, and a maze of tension-induced interactions.
Photograph by Viferico - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41177333
Jan 24, 2018
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.
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