SSLEEC partners key industry leaders and UCSB researchers to advance solid-state lighting and energy efficient power switching using wide-band gap semiconductors.

 

 

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Professor Shuji Nakamura receives Honorary Doctorate of Science at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
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Nakamura, Shuji (photo credit: Matt Perko)
Professor Shuji Nakamura's interview: "I want my work to enhance human life and contribute to achieving world peace"

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Henry Yang & Michael Drake(2025)
UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Henry T. Yang awarded UC Presidential Medal
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Three decades of dedication — and progress: Chancellor Yang concludes a historic chapter
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May 29, 2025 | Nitrides Seminar - Zachary Biegler

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Wang, Haochen

May 20, 2025 | Nitrides Seminar - Haochen Wang

In Memoriam

Herbert Kroemer (1928-2024)

Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2000

Prize motivation: "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics"

Learn more about Professor Herbert Kroemer