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Chao, DenBaars & Schuller: Hair-width LEDs...

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa ...
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Manjunath – Appointed Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department From the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering News (RMCOE) article ...
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Feb 26 (Thu) @ 9:00am: "High Power Quantum Dot Gain on Silicon by Heterogeneous Micro Transfer Print Integration," Diya Hu, ECE PhD Defense

Demand for high bandwidth interconnects for data centers, high performance computers, and other applications including sensing, 5G/6G mobile networks, and IoT, has driven the development of high-power ...
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May 14 (Tue) @10am: "Nonlinear and Quantum Light Source Technologies in SiN PICs," Kartik Srinivasan, NIST/UMD Joint Quantum Inst.

Silicon nitride has become a widely used material for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), due to its broad optical transparency window, moderately high refractive index, widely accessible growth ...
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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 30 (Thu) @ 2:00pm: "High Power Nitrogen-polar GaN/InAlN HEMT with Record Power Density of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz," Shigeki Yoshida, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Shigeki Yoshida is presenting record Ka-band power density from N-polar GaN HEMTs of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz, utilizing N-polar GaN/InAlN HEMTs. Shigeki Yoshida received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in ...
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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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Mar 13 (Wed) @ 9:00am: “Safe Robot Autonomy in Interactive Open-World Environments, Accelerated by Generative AI,” Roya Firoozi, Postdoc Researcher, Stanford

Generative AI offers the potential to empower autonomous robots with the ability (i) to connect abstract concepts to 3D scene geometry and (ii) to enable complex intention prediction and collaboration ...
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Jun 9 (Fri) @ 12:30pm: "System Identification and Adaptive Control Applications in Pharmacokinetics,” Murat Kaan Erdal, ECE PhD Defense

The recent development of continuous molecular monitoring platforms creates an unprecedented opportunity to understand drug pharmacokinetics, which is the study of how drugs are distributed within and ...
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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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Mar 14 (Tue) @ 2:30pm: "Incorporating Human Visual Properties into Neural Network Models," Aditya Jonnalagadda, ECE PhD Defense

Many animals and humans process the visual field with varying spatial resolution (foveated vision) and use peripheral processing to make intelligent eye movements and point the fovea to acquire ...