Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

Blumenthal: Joins NSF's Nat'l Quantum Virtual Laboratory

ECE Professor Daniel Blumenthal's Optical Communications and Atomic Quantum Photonic Integration Group (OCAQπ) joins the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Oct 31 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Signal Processing Meets RF Hardware: Compensating RF Nonidealities in Future Wireless Systems,” Nuutti Tervo, Visiting ...

Radio frequency (RF) transmitters and receivers contain multiple nonideal hardware components. In modern transceiver architectures, understanding their behavior and properties is essential for ...
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Prospective Students & Apply

The ECE department offers both Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Applicants must specify one of three programs: MS Program: for students who are primarily interested in a Master's ...
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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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ECE Seminar Series – Jun 6 (Fri) @ 2:00 pm: “Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, John E. Bowers, Dir. of the Inst. for Energy Efficiency and Prof. ECE and Materials, UCSB

Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new ...
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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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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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Feb 18 (Tue) @10am: "Quantum Nanophotonics Using Heterogeneous Materials Integration: From Single Photons to Integrated Lasers,” Richard Mirin, NIST

The Quantum Nanophotonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO develops new semiconducting and superconducting technologies for advanced metrology needs ...
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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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Yulun Wang, PhD EE '88: SoCalBio Honor

The achievement award is selected by SoCalBio Innovation Catalysts Program members. The Southern California Biomedical Council is a nonprofit, member supported trade association that supports and ...
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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 ...