UCLA-Led Research Finds Synchronized Electron Movement Can Trigger Electrical Signals More Than 100-Fold

Electric fields control the flow of charge in modern electronic chips, powering computers, smartphones and other devices. But as chips continue to shrink, this approach is reaching its physical limits.

Lihua Jin: Toward stretchable phones and squishy robots

Lihua Jin: Toward stretchable phones and squishy robots

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Lihua Jin’s work in soft materials engineering is helping pave the way for these kinds of advances In the Disney animated film “Big Hero 6,” the character Baymax is a loveable, squishy robot that resembles the Michelin...

Four faculty members elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Four faculty members elected to the National Academy of Inventors

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Photo, clockwise from top left: Subramanian Iyer, Henry Samueli, Alan N. Willson, Jr., and Eli Yablonovitch. Four faculty members affiliated with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...

Spearrin receives NSF CAREER Award for combustion research

Spearrin receives NSF CAREER Award for combustion research

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Applications include next-generation ultra-clean and efficient engines Mitchell Spearrin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,...