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College of Engineering News

Cover of a 2016 Energy Frontiers Research Centers booklet

Aug 23, 2018
Faculty Receive 4 New DOE Energy Frontiers Grants

Funds support projects to solve "grand challenges" related to batteries, membranes, quantum coherence, and neuromorphic computing.

Concept art showing the dynamics of water (blue-green shapes at top and bottom) at the interface of a membrane (blue horizontal section at center) with hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups scattered across the surface. Illustration by Peter Allen

Aug 07, 2018
Genetic Algorithm Reveals Water Dynamics at an Interface

Simulation shows new ways to control the dynamics of water at an interface, with possible application in water filtration membranes. 

A small, soft actuator made of liquid metals and flexible polymers is the soft analog of an electromagnetic motor. This image appeared on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials

May 30, 2018
Soft Machines

UCSB researchers develop a low-voltage actuator for soft, wearable robotics.

Source: UCSB Current
The original meter-wide bench-top optical frequency synthesizer (top) shown with the new 1-centimeter-wide DODOS version on it, approximately to scale, and in expanded view (bottom)

Apr 30, 2018
Shrinking the Optical Synthesizer

Team led by CoE profs John Bowers and Luke Theogarajan achieves major accomplishment in miniaturization.

An illustration of a memristor as a cybersecurity device that appeared on the cover of Nature Electronics

Apr 27, 2018
An Ionic Black Box

UCSB researchers use emerging memory devices to develop electronic circuits for cybersecurity applications.

Source: UCSB Current
The human eye

Apr 11, 2018
Treating Vision Loss

A UCSB team helped create a retinal implant designed to replace support cells damaged by dry age-related macular degeneration

Source: UCSB Current
artist rendering of quantum dot-enhanced laser light emitted from silicon chip

Mar 27, 2018
Quantum Dots Enable Silicon-based Lasers

Quantum dots can improve efficiency of silicon-based lasers.

Source: Science News
Artist's interpretation of earth, satellite, Lidar circuit

Mar 06, 2018
NASA Project: Shrinking SWaP, Expanding Performance

With an eye to potential use in space, NASA-funded UCSB engineers will design Lidar circuits to monitor atmospheric components.

Image combining virtual reality, remote sensing and autonomous vehicles

Feb 26, 2018
Tuning Light to Direct It

A materials approach to steering light beams without moving parts.

 

Artist's depiction of the intercalated multilayer-graphene inductor (center blue spiral), which exploits kinetic inductance to catalyze the Internet of Things. Background images show its predecessors made of conventional metal spirals (top left) or discrete coil inductors, which work solely on the principle of magnetic inductance. Illustration by Peter Allen

Feb 14, 2018
Reinventing the Inductor — 200 Years Later

A key element in modern electronics, the inductor has barely changed since it was invented in 1831. A new materials approach yields a better alternative.

A bear with cubs at Sedgwick Reserve

Feb 13, 2018
Where's the Bear?

UCSB computer scientists combine big data and machine learning to sort through millions of images and support ecological research.

Source: UCSB Current
Cubic salt crystal aggragate

Jan 30, 2018
A Crystal Method

UCSB researchers unlock another piece of the crystal-growth puzzle.

Source: UCSB Current

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