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Bright colors and different shapes meant to illustrate a photonic array
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Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array

A new optical memory platform for super fast calculations

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At blue economy summit, ocean experts and stakeholders converge
Portrait of Tinish Bhattacharya
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Tinish Bhattacharya in his UC Santa Barbara lab.

Innovative hardware for rapidly solving optimization problems
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Matt Perko
Using virtual reality, an AI module for future vision prostheses, designed by Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, creates practical and useful artificial vision.

Seeing the future: Michael Beyeler’s work in neurotechnology earns him top faculty award
scientist holds a chip-scale ring resonator and a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode
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Sonia Fernandez
Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser

Bringing the power of tabletop precision lasers for quantum science to the chip scale
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The internal structure of a jet engine

Materials scientist Daniel Oropeza receives prestigious award to advance high-temperature 3D ceramics
battery with blue lighting bolt
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Aqueous Battery Consortium

A new aqueous battery research collaboration to advance clean energy
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Materials scientist Chris Van de Walle receives top computational physics award from the American Physical Society
concept illustration for computer chip architecture

Kaustav Banerjee named a JSAP Fellow International
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UC Santa Barbara again named ‘Best Place to Work’
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UCSB, Community Environmental Council to hold Living with Fire Summit
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Matt Perko

UC Santa Barbara ranks among top universities nationally and globally in recent assessments
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Matt Perko
The scanning ultrafast electron microscope in the Bolin Liao lab

Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two semiconductor materials
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