ECE News

March 13, 2024

ECE emeritus professor Kroemer – a visionary theoretician and experimentalist brought forth ideas that quite literally changed our world

February 20, 2024

ECE and Materials Profs. Steven DenBaars and Shuji Nakamura collaborate with ChemE Prof. Phillip Christopher to engineer a solid-state laser customized to power more efficient light-driven catalysis

February 14, 2024

ECE Research & Emeritus Professor Larry Coldren receives the 2023 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) Heinrich Welker Award at the Compound Semiconductor Week (CSW)

January 1, 2024

ECE Professor Jason Marden among the fewer than 0.1% of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) members who receive the prestigious fellow honor each year

December 22, 2023

Profs. U. MishraS. DenBaars & S. Nakamura part of the history of UCSB's Material Research Lab's Interdisciplinary Research Groups

December 21, 2023

ECE Prof. John Bowers and Caltech Prof. K. Vahala research groups make a breakthrough in the way the short pulses form in an important new material called ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (ULL nitride).

December 21, 2023

ECE Prof. Joao Hespanha a co-PI with fellow UCSB CS Profs. C. Kruegel, A. Singh, and Director G. Vigna of the ACTION Institute which is leading a new effort combining humans and AI to protect critical connected systems

December 19, 2023

Umesh Mishra, the personable and highly respected longtime UCSB ECE professor, shares his vision for building on the greatness of the College of Engineering

December 17, 2023

Convergence (F23): the Magazine of Engineering and the Sciences at UC Santa Barbara

ECE Spotlights

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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until the young engineer Shuji Nakamura proposed a moonshot idea (Veritasium YouTube)
ECE Assoc. Prof. Galan Moody's Quantum Photonics Lab addresses open challenges by developing integrated photonic technologies—the optical analog of microelectronics
ECE Ass't Prof Yao Qin’s group addresses degradation in performance stemming from robustness issues to help treat those with type-1 diabetes
FusionSense is an open-source tool that allows for real-time collection of mm-wave radar data, developed by 2023 EE Capstone Seniors
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Champion of Engineering – Wenbin Jiang is an ECE Alumnus with a feel for Photonics
The Nanofabrication Facility (Nanofab) is UC Santa Barbara's state-of-the-art cleanroom with more than $60 million in equipment
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