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DenBaars – Optica N. Holonyak, Jr. Award

From the Optica News Release“Optica Names Steven DenBaars the 2026 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award Recipient” Optica is pleased to announce that Steven DenBaars, Materials & ECE Depa ...
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Chao, DenBaars & Schuller: Hair-width LEDs...

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa ...
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Manjunath – Appointed Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department From the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering News (RMCOE) article ...
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Tech Titans – Santa Barbara & UCSB

The South Coast’s emergence has come largely from cutting-edge companies clustering around the latest technologies, from computing and lasers to infrared radiation and space engineering. Many were ...
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Erez Berg

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering • UC Santa Barbara 2026 © Regents of the University of California ...
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Feb 26 (Thu) @ 9:00am: "High Power Quantum Dot Gain on Silicon by Heterogeneous Micro Transfer Print Integration," Diya Hu, ECE PhD Defense

Demand for high bandwidth interconnects for data centers, high performance computers, and other applications including sensing, 5G/6G mobile networks, and IoT, has driven the development of high-power ...
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Jul 19 (Tue) @ 12:00pm: "Improving Gain and Efficiency of N-polar GaN Deep Recess HEMT for mm-Wave Applications," Weiyi Li, ECE PhD Defense

GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been demonstrated to be a leading technology for RF millimeter-wave application. While GaN technologies utilizing the Ga-polar (0001) ...
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Mar 13 (Wed) @ 9:00am: “Safe Robot Autonomy in Interactive Open-World Environments, Accelerated by Generative AI,” Roya Firoozi, Postdoc Researcher, Stanford

Generative AI offers the potential to empower autonomous robots with the ability (i) to connect abstract concepts to 3D scene geometry and (ii) to enable complex intention prediction and collaboration ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 3 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: "Can Spintronics Help Make Computing More Efficient?," Mark Stiles, NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology

In this talk, I discuss why computer designers are looking to develop novel ways of computing for a variety of common but specialized tasks, why spintronic devices, particularly magnetic tunnel ...
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Nov 17 (Tue): "High Performance Semipolar InGaN Distributed Feedback Laser Diodes with Surface Gratings," Haojun Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

The impact of III-Nitride material and solid-state lighting on the world has been far-reaching. The last decade has seen the III-Nitride LEDs and laser didoes (LDs) steadily becoming essential ...