E&P Research Activities
Activities & faculty include but are not limited to:
- High Frequency Transistors
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Device technologies and modeling for transistors operating at RF, millimeter-wave, and terahertz frequencies. — Faculty
- Materials
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Electronic, photonic, and quantum materials enabling advanced device and system performance. — Faculty
- Microwave/Millimeter-wave/Terahertz
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Technologies and systems operating at microwave to terahertz frequencies for sensing and communication. — Faculty
- Optical Communication ICs
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Integrated circuits for high-speed optical transmission, modulation, and signal processing. — Faculty
- Optics
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Optical devices for data, computation, sensing, imaging. — Faculty
- Photonics and Optoelectronics
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Devices and systems that manipulate and transmit photons for communication and sensing. — Faculty
- Quantum Computing Devices
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Hardware platforms enabling quantum information processing and computation. — Faculty
- RF Communication ICs
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Integrated circuits for radio-frequency communication front-ends and transceivers. — Faculty
- Semiconductors
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Semiconductor device physics, fabrication, and applications in electronic systems. — Faculty
- AI for Scientific Discovery
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AI methods for hypothesis generation, model identification, and data-driven discovery and design in scientific and engineering systems. — Faculty
- Hardware and Algorithms for AI
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Co-design of specialized hardware and algorithms to accelerate machine learning and AI workloads. — Faculty
E&P Research Overview
Electronics & Photonics research at UC Santa Barbara spans a wide spectrum of topics: material growth, compound semiconductors, high performance transistors, quantum devices, photonics, integrated circuits, low power design, optics, and systems/devices.
We design and build new semiconductors, transistors that are faster, communication channels with higher bandwidths, devices with lower power requirements, metamaterials with new capabilities, integrated photonics devices with unprecedented performance, and more. The results of our research form the building blocks for new systems and devices for sensing, communication, and computing.
Faculty in Electronics & Photonics are multidisciplinary and enthusiastically collaborative. There is a risk-tolerant spirit of bold exploration to cooperatively push the frontiers. This culture, combined with unique state-of-the-art facilities for characterization, growth, and micro fabrication, allows students and researchers to engage in cutting edge research activities. There is also an intense focus on transferring today's research activities into commercial enterprises, as evidenced by the rich portfolio of start-up activities and industry partnerships from this group.
For more detailed descriptions of faculty research and activities, please visit the EP Research Activities accordions in the box.
