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Blumenthal: Chip-scale Cold Atoms & QS in the Field

Dan Blumenthal & collaborators work to translate various functions of current cold-atom quantum experiments to a more portable and deployable form From The UCSB Current article "Chip-scale cold atom ...
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John – Microcredentials Chip Away at Semicond. Workforce Gap

ECE's Demis John, Process Sci. Mgr Nanofab Facility featured in article about scaling up the workforce by starting short courses at UCSB ...
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Hariman – Tau Beta Pi Scholar

Christopher Andrew Hariman named a Tau Beta Pi Scholar – candidates are chosen based on academic excellence, leadership, service, and the promise of future contributions to the profession Hariman, a ...
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May 20 (Mon) @ 11:30am: "Advances in Nitrogen-polar GaN HEMTs Enabling Adoption in mm-Wave Applications," Henry Collins, ECE PhD Defense

Emerging high-frequency technologies such as satellite communication, 5G telecommunication, and autonomous vehicles necessitate the development of mm-wave power amplifiers. In this work, performance ...
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Jul 19 (Tue) @ 12:00pm: "Improving Gain and Efficiency of N-polar GaN Deep Recess HEMT for mm-Wave Applications," Weiyi Li, ECE PhD Defense

GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been demonstrated to be a leading technology for RF millimeter-wave application. While GaN technologies utilizing the Ga-polar (0001) ...
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Aug 28 (Mon) @ 3:30pm:” Millimeter-Wave GaN Device Modeling and Circuit Design,” Rohit Reddy Karnaty, ECE PhD Defense

Gallium Nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) offer significant advantages in microwave power applications, yet their scaling for high power in millimeter-wave (mmW) bands presents ...
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Sep 18 (Wed) @ 11:00am: "High Performance Quantum Dot Gain Devices for Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon Photonics," Chongxin (Tyler) Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

In the past decades, most telecom, datacom, and sensor systems have been developed based on discrete optical components. As the demand for data transfer is rapidly rising, the need to reduce cost, ...
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Mar 6 (Wed) @ 4:00pm: “Silicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, Biophotonics, Quantum Engineering, and Beyond,” Jelena Notaros, EECS, MIT

Jelena Notaros is the Robert J. Shillman Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. and ...
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Aug 16th (Fri) @ 10:00 am: “Photonic Architectures for In-Memory Computing Using Nonvolatile Optical Materials,” Nathan Youngblood, Ass’t. Prof., ECE, Pitt

Abstract Photonics information processing strategies offer the unique ability to perform analog computation with ultra-low latency and high efficiency. However, designing compact and reconfigurable ...
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May 10 (Mon): "The Impact of Information in Cooperative and Noncooperative Systems," David Grimsman, ECE PhD Defense

Large-scale autonomous systems are those with many components that act based on individual preferences. No component can access all information within the system, due to time or computation ...