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Concept illustration of the electro-optic response in AlScN
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Haochen Wang, ChuanNan Li, Van de Walle group
Concept illustration of the electro-optic response in AlScN

Boosting electro-optic performance in III-V semiconductors

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3D rendering of a polymer chain
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iStock
A 3D rendering of a polymer chain
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Electrical and computer engineering professor in his lab
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Matt Perko
Daniel Blumenthal

Cold atoms on a chip
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Black man hands blue card to white man on stage
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Willie E. May, left, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, inducts chemical engineering professor M. Scott Shell, right, as a Fellow.
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concept illustration of robot collective acting like a tool
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Brian Long/UCSB
Disk-shaped robots can act collectively to accomplish tasks such as lifting and manipulating objects, or supporting weight
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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
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Portrait of Tinish Bhattacharya
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Tinish Bhattacharya in his UC Santa Barbara lab.
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A hand holding up a pair of high-tech glasses on a black background
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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.
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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
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battery with blue lighting bolt
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Aqueous Battery Consortium