Slowing Light, Faster Development of Optics Slowing light - something that college physics textbooks don`t even mention - could enable the transport of information ptically rather than with wires. And electrical engineers led by professor Shayan Mookherjea are pushing the technology one step closer to a day when slowing light could significantly enhance computer performance and lower the power required by computer systems. "We`re opening a window between optical localization research - traditionally the domain of physicists - and research in optical interconnects and novel waveguides, where electrical engineers are leading the way," says Mookherjea, whose work was featured in the journal Nature Photonics. "The fact that the slowing of light occurs together with localization opens the door for more research in this area of photonics." Using Calit2`s Nano3 facility, Mookherjea`s team fabricated a slow-wave optical waveguide in a silicon-on-insulator chip. Ensuing research demonstrated for the first time that light can be localized within the chip-scale waveguide. |
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Message from the Chair
Welcome to the website of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSD. When you browse around, you will see the up-to-date courses covering the entire spectrum of the electrical and computer engineering discipline, you'll get information about our faculty, who are leaders in their cutting-edge research programs, and you'll see undergraduate and graduate students about working on groundbreaking projects.
ECE is at a significant crossroads - the technology to create and manipulate information is at the center of the modern world, and it impacts modern telecommunications and computer industries, as well the basic sciences and biology. The research challenges in our discipline emerge at the nano-scale of device physics, from the convergence of electronics and biology, from the emerging challenges of alternative energy sources, and from the linking of the virtual and physical worlds. We invite you to join us in this exciting adventure into the future of global high technology.
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June 5, 2009 | | 02:00pm - 03:00pm | Ben Y. Zhao |
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June 10, 2009 | | 11:00am - 12:00pm | Dr. Shahraam Afshar |
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June 16, 2009 | | 02:00pm - 03:00pm | Rich Wolski |
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June 18, 2009 | | 03:00pm - 04:00pm | James L. Merz |
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June 23, 2009 | | 12:15pm - 01:30pm | Dr. Jim Rautio |
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June 30, 2009 | | 10:00am - 11:00am | Dr. Ravi M. Todi |
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ECE Alumni News Spring 09
 The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), provider of a leading program in microwave and millimeter-wave RFICs and mixed-signal, and Jazz Semiconductor®, a Tower Group Company (NASDAQ: TSEM) (TASE: TSEM), today announced that they have collaborated to develop a two-antenna quad-beam RFIC phased array receiver covering the 11-15 GHz frequency range. First time success was achieved using Jazz Semiconductor’s high performance 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS process and its own proprietary models, kit and DIRECT MPW (Multiproject Wafer) program. The chip was designed and tested by the Electrical and Computer Engineering School at UCSD, and was sponsored by the DARPA RF VLSI program, Dr. Mark Rosker, Program Monitor. Read more... |
 Prof. Charles Tu is the recipient of a Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation 2009 Outstanding Research Award. This is regarded as Taiwan`s most prestigious technical award. It honors outstanding achievement in the fields of electronics, telecommunications, computer science, information technology, and information systems. The Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award is given annually to three or four recipients of Chinese descent from Taiwan, mainland China and the rest of the world. |
  Eitan Yaakobi, an ECE doctoral student at CMRR, is one of 5 students world-wide to be selected for a 2009 Marconi Society Young Scholar Award. Marco Papaleo, another of the 5 recipients, is currently a visiting graduate student researcher at CMRR. The Marconi Society’s Young Scholar Award recognizes outstanding academic achievement and intellectual promise in the field of telecommunications. |
 Electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego invented radio frequency integrated circuits that could lead to significantly less expensive imaging systems for identifying concealed weapons, for helping helicopters to land during dust storms, and for high frequency data communications. UC San Diego engineers presented this circuit at the 2009 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium on June 9, where it won one of the best three-student-paper awards. Read more... |
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