Research

The leading-edge technology makes on-chip micro-fabrication possible.

The mission of a new nonprofit is to overcome barriers to developing prototypes and moving them to industrial-scale production.

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

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have invented a display technology for on-screen graphics that are both visible and haptic, meaning that they can be felt via touch. The screens are patterned with tiny pixels that expand outward yielding bumps when illuminated, enabling the display of dynamic graphical animations that can be seen with the eyes and felt with the hand. This technology could one day enable high-definition visual-haptic touch screens for automobiles, mobile computing, or intelligent architectural walls. 

Researchers will work toward improving efficiency in electric motors, quantum computing, and large language models with IEE support.

A seaweed-derived gel that helps scientists understand how cells grow in their environment could be used for breast cancer research.

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

An unfavorable condition in 3D semiconductor materials may be beneficial in 2D semiconductors.

If there’s one thing we humans are good at, it’s producing heat. Significant amounts, and in many cases most of the energy we generate and put into our systems we lose as heat, whether it be our appliances, our transportation, our factories, even our electrical grid.“Waste heat is everywhere,” said UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering professor Bolin Liao, who specializes in thermal science and renewable energy. “Our power plants, our car exhaust pipes — there are so many places where we create excess heat waste.”

Fireflies, pendulum clocks, our heart muscles and the neurons regulating our daily internal processes: these things all have a tendency toward synchrony.