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The chemical element nickel denoted the number 28 from the periodic table
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Adding nickel atoms to improve a silver catalyst

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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

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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UCSB, Community Environmental Council to hold Living with Fire Summit
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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
broadband tower overlooks a rural area

Federal broadband subsidies boosted rural internet, but service faded once funding ended, researchers find
groups of chess pieces on either side of a dividing line

Elections math is the subject of new graduate seminar
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UC Santa Barbara partners with SB City College to expand workforce training in micro/nanotechnology and semiconductor manufacturing
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James Badham
Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Making desalination more efficient, by way of renewable energy
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Exploiting atomically thin materials for energy efficient electronics
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