2035 Initiative Annual Report

2025-2026 Annual Report

The 2035 Initiative is excited to share their Annual Report for FY 2025–26. Their clean heat roadmaps are shaping industrial…

Newsletter, Research

bowers podcast

IEE Founding director John Bowers Joins 632nm for a Conversation on Silicon Photonics and the Future of AI Scaling

In a podcast episode from 632nm, founding IEE director, John Bowers, as one of the pioneers of silicon photonics, spoke about the…

In the News, Research

3D Printing

Galan Moody leads successful effort to secure $1.3 million for advanced 3D printing

"A new age of 3D printing is here, even though the initial technology for what is also known as additive manufacturing arrived less than…

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IEE 3.0 Spring Symposium

IEE 3.0 Spring Symposium

A Symposium on Powering the AI & Energy Transition

Hosted by the Institute for Energy Efficiency, UC Santa Barbara…

Industry and Business, Newsletter, Research

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Atomic physicist David Weld selected for 2026 National Brown Investigator Award

UC Santa Barbara physics professor David Weld is one of eight…

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UCSB to join major collaboration supporting battery innovation and commercialization

UC Santa Barbara is joining a powerful new collaboration aimed at revolutionizing the battery industry through the…

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dan

Researchers demonstrate integrated stabilized laser chips performing clock and quantum operations on a room temperature trapped ion qubit

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara and University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated a chip-scale, stabilized visible-light laser…

In the News, Newsletter, Research

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Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura to receive honorary doctorate from University of Oxford

UC Santa Barbara professor Shuji Nakamura has been selected as one…

Awards and Accolades, Research

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Powering AI: Europe switches on its first microgrid-connected data center

Europe's First Microgrid-Connected Data Center Goes Live in Dublin


AVK and Pure Data Centres Group…

In the News, Research

Doctoral student Roark Chao researches microLEDs at UC Santa Barbara

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and a UCSB doctoral student is helping make it happen

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to…

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Coal

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…

Awards and Accolades, In the News, Research

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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…

Awards and Accolades, General, In the News, Newsletter, Research

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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NRL

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