Courtesy: Bowers, Optoelectronics Research Group
E&P Research Activities
Activities & faculty include but are not limited to:
- Bio/Neuro
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Exploring biological and neural systems for interfacing or computation — Faculty
- Circuit Design
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Engineering electronic devices, including complex integrated circuits — Faculty
- High Speed/Frequency
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Engineering for MHz, GHz, and THz — Faculty
- Low Power
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Advanced engineering to do more with less — Faculty
- Materials
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Engineering resources for new components — Faculty
- Nanotechnology
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Technology based on nanoscale components and materials — Faculty
- Optics
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Optical devices for data, computation, sensing, imaging — Faculty
- Optoelectronics
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Integrated circuits with both optical and electronic components — Faculty
- Photonics
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Technology for manipulating and transmitting photons — Faculty
- Quantum Devices
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Components that operate on quantum mechanical principles — Faculty
- Silicon Photonics
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Photonics devices built upon silicon-based — Faculty
- Transistors
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Technology for the workhorse devices of electronics — Faculty
- Wireless
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Free-space transmission of data — Faculty
E&P Research Overview
Electronics & Photonics research at UC Santa Barbara spans a wide spectrum of topics: material growth, compound semiconductors, high performance transistors, quantum devices, photonics, integrated circuits, low power design, optics, and systems/devices.
We design and build new semiconductors, transistors that are faster, communication channels with higher bandwidths, devices with lower power requirements, metamaterials with new capabilities, integrated photonics devices with unprecedented performance, and more. The results of our research form the building blocks for new systems and devices for sensing, communication, and computing.
Faculty in Electronics & Photonics are multidisciplinary and enthusiastically collaborative. There is a risk-tolerant spirit of bold exploration to cooperatively push the frontiers. This culture, combined with unique state-of-the-art facilities for characterization, growth, and micro fabrication, allows students and researchers to engage in cutting edge research activities. There is also an intense focus on transferring today's research activities into commercial enterprises, as evidenced by the rich portfolio of start-up activities and industry partnerships from this group.
For more detailed descriptions of faculty research and activities, please visit the EP Research Activities accordions in the box.
E&P UCSB Affiliations
- UCSB Nanofabrication Facility – Klamkin (Faculty Director)
- American Institute for Manufacturing of Photonics (AIM) – Bowers (Deputy CEO), Blumenthal, Buckwalter, Dagli, Klamkin, Palmstrøm, Rodwell
- California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) – Bowers, Denbaars, Klamkin, Moody, Schuller
- Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) – Bowers (Director), Blumenthal, Buckwalter, Denbaars, Klamkin, Mishra, Moody, Palmstrøm, Rodwell, Schow, Schuller
- UCSB Quantum Foundry (UQF) – Bowers, Moody, Palmstrøm
- Center for Converged TeraHertz Communications & Sensing (ComSenTer) – Rodwell (Director), Mishra, Buckwalter
- Center for Responsible Machine Learning (CRML) – Smith
- Optoelectronics Technology Center (OTC) – Klamkin, Schow
- Solid-State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) – Denbaars (Co-Director), Blumenthal, Bowers, Mishra
- Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC) – Blumenthal (Director), Bowers, Dagli, Rodwell
- Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) – Smith
