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The Institute for Energy Efficiency Expands its Scope — and Pulls in SSLEEC

When John Bowers, inaugural director of the…

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How to retire coal, smarter and faster: New UCSB study offers data-driven strategies for shuttering America’s remaining coal plants

Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than a hundred plants still have no retirement plans — a gap…

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Three UCSB Teams Receive IEE Seed Funding for Energy Efficiency Research

This month, three UCSB projects received awards from the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE). The IEE’s Research Seed and…

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Professor Daniel Blumenthal's lab develops chip-scale components that can bring the power and precision of quantum science outside of the tightly controlled environment of the lab.

Chip-scale Cold Atom and Trapped Ion Experiments Can Unleash the Power of Quantum Science in the Field

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum…

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Professor Shuji Nakamura featured as the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Lecturer in Washington DC

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) proudly hosted the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Lecture, featuring Professor Shuji Nakamura, 2014…

Alumni, Awards and Accolades, In the News, Research

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GM’s Home-Grown LMR Battery Opens New Front in EV Competition

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01 JUL 2025

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP)…

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Pioneering UCSB Laser Expert John Bowers Is Set to Retire

After thirty-eight years as a professor at UC Santa Barbara, John…

Awards and Accolades

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This initiative is part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to research and develop the next generation of distributed…

Research

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Engineering Social Impact at UCSB


With the continuing federal assaults on science, you might think climate science research has ground to a halt. Fortunately, UCSB…

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Andrea S. Carlini recognized for her work on bio-compatible soft materials

From fitbits to targeted gene therapy, the age of precision health has dawned. But scientists will need to develop new materials for us…

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John Bowers honored with 23rd William Gould Dow Distinguished Lectureship

Bowers gave an overview of historical and current research on integrating silicon photonics and lasers into circuits.

Awards and Accolades, Research

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Quantum entangled photons on demand

Entangled photons are at the heart of a variety of different and powerful quantum applications. By…

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Quantum Computing

Cisco lays out plans for networking in era of quantum computing

The network equipment provider has opened a new lab and developed a prototype chip as it fleshes out its quantum networking…

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World’s biggest Raspberry Pi cluster is now at UCSB

A few years ago, as a demonstration of the power of a relatively simple technology, software giant Oracle built a cluster of 1,050…

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Lithium-ion batteries power everything from cell phones to laptops

Lithium shows its metal, paving the way for better batteries

Lithium-ion batteries today are nearly ubiquitous, powering everything from cell phones to laptops. Small wonder, then, that scientists…

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To power AI, data centers need more and more energy

In the race to dominate artificial intelligence, technology companies are fueling an unprecedented expansion of data centers. These…

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