From the Optica News Release“Optica Names Steven DenBaars the 2026 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award Recipient” Optica is pleased to announce that Steven DenBaars, Materials & ECE Depa ...

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa ...

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department From the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering News (RMCOE) article ...

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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Demand for high bandwidth interconnects for data centers, high performance computers, and other applications including sensing, 5G/6G mobile networks, and IoT, has driven the development of high-power ...

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 ...

This talk will cover the status of co-packaging efforts, both VCSEL- and SiPh-based, where they fit into the Ethernet switch market and the evolving Computer IO market, and how these technologies are ...

As interest in communication and imaging at millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies grows, the demand for high-performance transistor technologies becomes increasingly critical. Nitrogen-polar gallium ...

Robots must behave safely and reliably if we are to confidently deploy them in the real world around humans. To complete tasks, robots must manage a complex, interconnected autonomy stack of ...