How to Get a Robot Collective to Act Like a Smart Material

UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators have developed a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology.

Nickel Atoms Improve a Silver Catalyst

PhD student Anika Jalil overcomes a major challenge by placing the right number of nickel atoms in exactly the right place.

Lithium Shows its Metal

A new study finds that adding certain dopants could lead to safer, more energy-efficient batteries.

Topological Quantum Processor: a Breakthrough in Computing

A Microsoft team led by UCSB physicists unveils a first-of-its-kind topological qubit, paving the way for a more fault-tolerant quantum computer.

Toward High Electro-Optic Performance in III-V Semiconductors

Illuminating a path to superior electro-optic performance in aluminum scandium nitride alloys.

UCSB Researchers Solve A Fluid -Mechanics Mystery

Explaining a quirky phenomenon from a seven-year-old experiment that became an art piece.

A Catalyst to Discovery

Bioengineer Ryan Stowers receives a pair of substantial awards to fund biomedical research.

Bringing the Power of Tabletop Precision Lasers for Quantum Science to the Chip Scale

Researchers in Daniel Blumenthal's lab work to re-create the performance of bench-top lasers on tiny devices.

Innovative Hardware for Rapidly Solving High-order Optimization Problems

PhD student leads development of architecture to compute high-degree polynomial gradients in-memory.

A New Optical Memory Platform for Super-fast Calculations

An international team develops a faster, more durable optical platform for in-memory computation.

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