News for 2020
Overbidder's Anonymous
UCSB’s bridge team shoots to the top of the Online Collegiate Bridge Championships
Winter Quarter – Academic Instruction
Like most counties throughout California, Santa Barbara County was reclassified this week into the most-restrictive purple tier in the State’
Congratulations to Dr. Michel Khoury (recent SSLEEC/Materials postdoctoral researcher) for being recognized with the National Postdoc
11 September 2020
QUANTUM FUTURE: Researchers partner with national labs in DOE-funded collaborations to expand research in quantum sciences
Chancellor James B. Milliken announced today that Archie L. Holmes Jr., Ph.D., vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Virginia, will be the next executive vice chancellor of academic affairs at The University of Texas System.
The appointment will be a homecoming for Holmes, who grew up in Texas, received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from UT Austin and was a faculty member in the Cockrell School of Engineering for a decade before joining the University of Virginia, one of the leading public universities in the country.
![Figure 1: (a) Image of 4-inch (20-21) GaN on sapphire substrate; (b) x-ray diffraction rocking curves of on-axis (20-21) plane with axis perpendicular and parallel to patterned stripes; bright-field cross-sectional transmission electron microscope images under two-beam conditions along (c) g = [0001] and (d) g = [10-10] diffraction vectors with [11-20] zone axis.](https://www.ssleec.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_thumbnail/public/screen_shot_2020-08-07_at_10.40.38_am.png?itok=DxZD1r70)
6 August 2020
Congratulations to Elaine Haberer for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study synthetic nanoswimmers! Dr. Elaine Haberer received her PhD from UCSB in Materials, 2005.
Congratulations to Caroline Reilly for receiving the 2019-20 GSA Dixon-Levy Service Award! Thank you, Caroline, for all of volunteering and outstanding services you provided (and still providing) for your fellow graduate students!
University Team Explores Use of Ultraviolet LEDs for Air Purification
GaN-substrate LEDs with blue and yellow quantum wells deliver white light with no phosphor conversion while another UCSB project involves nanorod structures to improve light extraction in LEDs.
15 May 2020
Jails Turn to UVC Robots To Fight Coronavirus
Tara Owens
Financial Manager, Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC)
Eddie Lo
Contributing Writer, The Bottom Line, UCSB
May 6, 2020
UCSB hoping The Power of Light can help COVID-19 fight
See page 72: http://www.semiconductor-today.com/latestissue.htm
Professor Shuji Nakamura is the keynote presenter at the NYC Simons Foundation meeting on Wave Localization, February 20-21, 2020.
ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
Authors: Shubhra S. Pasayat *, Chirag Gupta, Yifan Wang, Steven P. DenBaars, Shuji Nakamura, Stacia Keller, Umesh K. Mishra
