Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

RMCOE – New Online Masters Degree

New Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) program expands access to UCSB’s engineering education for working professionals worldwide ...
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ECE Seminar Series

The seminar series explores cutting-edge research in all areas of ECE, facing the grand challenges of our time. It focuses on a wide range of topics in ECE, including microelectronics, photonics and ...
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Electronics & Photonics Research

Electronics & Photonics research at UC Santa Barbara spans a wide spectrum of topics: material growth, compound semiconductors, high performance transistors, quantum devices, photonics, integrated ...
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Nov 17 (Tue): "High Performance Semipolar InGaN Distributed Feedback Laser Diodes with Surface Gratings," Haojun Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

The impact of III-Nitride material and solid-state lighting on the world has been far-reaching. The last decade has seen the III-Nitride LEDs and laser didoes (LDs) steadily becoming essential ...
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Tech Titans – Santa Barbara & UCSB

The South Coast’s emergence has come largely from cutting-edge companies clustering around the latest technologies, from computing and lasers to infrared radiation and space engineering. Many were ...
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Sep 22 (Fri) @ 10:00am: “Monolithic Integration of QD Lasers on 300 mm Silicon Photonic Wafers,” Kaiyin Feng, ECE PhD Defense

Rapid development of the Si photonics industry and its applications in data communication and sensors calls for the making of on-chip light sources integrated on the Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) ...
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May 30 (Thu) @ 2:00pm: "High Power Nitrogen-polar GaN/InAlN HEMT with Record Power Density of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz," Shigeki Yoshida, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Shigeki Yoshida is presenting record Ka-band power density from N-polar GaN HEMTs of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz, utilizing N-polar GaN/InAlN HEMTs. Shigeki Yoshida received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 3 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: "Can Spintronics Help Make Computing More Efficient?," Mark Stiles, NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology

In this talk, I discuss why computer designers are looking to develop novel ways of computing for a variety of common but specialized tasks, why spintronic devices, particularly magnetic tunnel ...
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May 14 (Tue) @10am: "Nonlinear and Quantum Light Source Technologies in SiN PICs," Kartik Srinivasan, NIST/UMD Joint Quantum Inst.

Silicon nitride has become a widely used material for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), due to its broad optical transparency window, moderately high refractive index, widely accessible growth ...
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Feb 28 (Wed) @ 9:00am: “Enhancing Materials Microstructure Analysis with Physics-Informed Computer Vision,” Devendra Kumar Jangid, ECE PhD Defense

Collecting 3D microstructural information of materials poses significant challenges, being a process that is time-consuming and expensive. While advancements in serial sectioning instrumentation have ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 6 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Six Mini Talks" by ECE PhD Students

This seminar features short research talks covering a range of topics across AI, photonics, communications, control, and computing systems. Learn about ongoing work in the department and connect with ...