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Oct 13
2015While living and attending graduate school in Santa Barbara, alum Michael Titus took advantage of the opportunities he discovered in a place where, as he says, anything is possible. Scientifically, he found the opportunities to make, model, test, and characterize materials, a grand slam combination that is a hallmark of UCSB. The level of expertise, and mentorship, he... read more » -
Sep 10
2015With a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Stephen D. Wilson is on his way to finding the 21st century’s silicon, a key element used in the semiconductors of today’s electronics. His latest project aims to grow new exotic materials capable of driving technological and scientific advances to new levels. “I was absolutely... read more » -
Jul 27
2015In a bid to boost photonics manufacturing and bring more skilled, high-tech jobs to the country, as well as push the boundaries of energy efficiency and performance in computing and telecommunications, the Obama administration announced today that it has selected the American Institute for Manufacturing of Photonics (AIM Photonics) to lead research and manufacturing of... read more » -
Jul 3
2015Graduate student Luke Rettbert received an Excellent Poster Award during the closing banquet of the 123HiMAT-Advanced High-Temperature Materials Committee's 1st International Conference, 123HiMAT 2015, held June 29 - July 3 at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. His poster, titled Rejuvenation of Ni-Based Superalloys René N5(SX) and GTD444(DS), was voted one of the... read more » -
Jun 30
2015Professor Larry Coldren received the International Conference on Indium Phosphide & Related Materials (IPRM) Award in recognition of his leading contributions to the development of InP-based semiconductor lasers and photonic integrated circuits for optical fiber communications. The award was presented on June 30th at the 2015 Compound Semiconductor Week, held at UC... read more » -
Jun 26
2015Graduate Student Alan Liu was awarded the Best Student Presentation Award at the 2015 Electronic Materials Conference for his presentation, "Record Lifetimes of GaAs Based Lasers Epitaxially Grown on Silicon." Student awards are given annually by the Electronic Materials Committee for the presentations at the EMC Conference. Student papers are judged on scientific content... read more » -
May 28
2015Professor Tresa Pollock has been elected for membership to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Election to the academy is made in recognition of her scientific achievements and her personal standing. -
Apr 27
2015In recognition of his groundbreaking work in LED (light-emitting diode) technology, UC Santa Barbara materials professor Shuji Nakamura has been chosen as a 2015 Global Energy Prize Laureate. The prestigious Russian award “honors outstanding achievements in energy research and technology from around the world that are helping address the world’s various and pressing... read more » -
Apr 8
2015In the world of performance materials, we can be pretty demanding. We want things to be strong but light, flexible but resilient, high quality but easily manufactured and sustainable. UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist Jonathan Berger has developed a material that can fulfill all those ideals — a solid foam that he describes as “the most... read more » -
Apr 3
2015UCSB Materials graduate student Christopher Proctor has been awarded a 2015/16 Whitaker International Program Scholars post-doc grant to develop organic electronic devices for the treatment of neurological disorders at the École Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne in Gardanne, France. The Whitaker International Program sends emerging leaders in U.S. biomedical... read more » -
Feb 19
2015The editors of the Journal of Polymer Science and the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division of the ACS are delighted to announce that the JPS Innovation Award winner for 2015 is Rachel Segalman. The award recognizes Rachel for her innovative work, such as unraveling the principles underlying the processing /structure/property relationships in block... read more » -
Jan 12
2015A team of chemistry and materials science experts from University of California, Santa Barbara and The Dow Chemical Company has created a novel way to overcome one of the major hurdles preventing the widespread use of controlled radical polymerization. In a global polymer industry valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars, a technique called Atom Transfer Radical... read more » -
Jan 8
2015Robert McMeeking, Professor of materials and of mechanical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has been appointed inaugural recipient of the Tony Evans Chair in Structural Materials. McMeeking’s appointment recognizes his outstanding achievements in mechanics and materials, including nonlinear fracture mechanics, transformation toughening of ceramics, mechanics of composite... read more » -
Jan 6
2015Professor Shuji Nakamura has been selected for the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering. Along with Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis and Nick Holonyak Jr. the prize is being awarded for “the invention, development, and commercialization of materials and processes for light-emitting diodes (LEDs).” The $500,000 annual award... read more » -
Dec 1
2014Professor Ram Seshadri has been elected to Fellowship of the American Physical Society for his significant contributions: "to developing structure-composition-property relations in functional inorganic oxides, to the understanding of the role of lone-pair electrons in polar and ferroic behavior, to frustrated magnetism and frustrated ferroics, and to novel phosphors for... read more » -
Oct 6
2014The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and two others. The prize is for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources, and is shared with Isamu Akasaki of... read more »
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