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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…

In the News, Research

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…

In the News, Research

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Inspired by early biomimetic approaches, Kerem Çamsarı’s work evokes features of neural connectivity

By harnessing the power of randomness, Kerem Çamsarı and his research team are paving the way for technology that mimics the human brain…

Research

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IEE's M. Scott Shell elected AAAS Fellow

Two professors in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering, Beth Pruitt and M. Scott Shell, have received a…

Awards and Accolades, Research

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UCSB's Team Klaatu Designs Innovative Farming Robot, Gort

Team Klaatu, a team comprised of students from UCSB and advised by Professors Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski, recently designed an…

General, Research

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2023-2024 IEE Seed & IGSB SW Impact Grant Applications Are Now Open!

The Institute for Energy Efficiency is pleased to announce that applications for our 2023-2024 Seed Grant and IGSB SW Impact Grant are…

Research

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Researchers Develop a Scaled-up Spintronic Probabilistic Computer

Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Messina, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a…

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They used to call California ocean desalination a disaster. But water crisis brings new look

For decades, environmentalists have decried ocean desalination as an ecological disaster, while cost-savvy water managers have thumbed…

In the News, Research

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Investing in the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Faculty at UC Santa Barbara seeking to develop breakthrough energy-efficient software will have the opportunity to receive seed funding…

Research

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Investing in the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Faculty at UC Santa Barbara seeking to develop breakthrough energy-efficient software will have the opportunity to receive seed funding…

Research

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Investing in the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Faculty at UC Santa Barbara seeking to develop breakthrough energy-efficient software will have the opportunity to receive seed funding…

Research

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Convergence of Silicon Photonics and Electronics

Silicon photonics research and commercialization has intensified as both photonic component performance…

Research

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Investing In Innovation

Three projects that take innovative approaches to solving critical energy-efficiency challenges have been awarded seed funding from UC…

Awards and Accolades, Research

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AIM Photonics Awaits 2nd Round of Funding

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