News for 2022

The leading scientific organization for optics and photonics recognizes ECE professors Steven DenBaars and his ECE peer Jonathan Klamkin for their work and service

Efficient microscale emitters

Featured as one of APLs most cited articles of 2020-2021.


Congratulations to the UCSB UV LED research group for being featured in Compound Semiconductor Magazine!
A team from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), is claiming to have produced the most comprehensive study on the performance of deep-UV devices with differing dimensions and emission wavelengths.

ENERGY.GOV posting: UCSB Researchers Look to Engineer Next-Generation Long-Wavelength GaN-based LEDs
Congratulations to UCSB researchers!

September 14, 2022




Thursday, July 14, 2022

Nobel Laureate in Physics Shuji Nakamura visits SanOh's Furukawa Plant.
On May 26, 2022, SanOh welcomed Professors Shuji Nakamura and Steven P. DenBaars of UC Santa Barbara to its Furukawa Plant for research and development discussions. SanOh is dispatching researchers in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara.

This year’s recipients are Emily Williams and Mark Turiansky, selected by the awards committee for dissertations with “significant impact on the field in terms of methodological and substantive contributions.”


On May 3, 2022, UC Santa Barbara held the Chancellor's Staff Celebration Luncheon. Recognized were 10 Staff Citation Award recipients, of which Tara Owens was one of them.
The UCSB Staff Assembly is pleased to announce its 2021-2022 Staff Citation of Excellence Awards Program. The purpose of the program is to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding achievements and meritorious service of career staff. Ten awards will be made; each recipient will receive $500 and a plaque. Presentation of awards will be made during the Staff Celebration Week Luncheon at noon.

Join the live conversation between IEEE Awards Board Chair, Dr. Karen Panetta, and the 2022 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Recipient Umesh K. Mishra on 20 April 2022 at 2:15 PM EDT. This event includes a Q&A session with the audience!

Scientific Lecture by Dr. Shuji Nakamura, the UofL 2019 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy Laureate. A world-leading pioneer in sustainable energy technology, Nakamura is recognized for his solid-state light-emitting diodes (LED) technology. His LEDs have 10 times the efficiency of incandescent lighting, twice the efficiency of fluorescents and last 30 to 40 years.

COE Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Monday, April 4, 2022
SSLEEC recognizes and congratulates the NSF graduate research fellowship recipients, Emily Trageser and Norleakvisoth Lim!

Archive post on Pi Day (3/17/2017): https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2017/017771/happy-pi-day




Panpan Li’s article, “Demonstration of ultra-small 5 x 5 µm2 607nm InGaN amber micro-light-emitting diodes with an external quantum efficiency over 2%,” has been featured on the cover of Applied Physics Letters.
