ECE Distinguished Professor Alexander Balandin has been awarded a 2021 Department of Defense (DoD) Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. The five-year, highly competitive fellowship is the DoD’s most prestigious single-investigator award with up to $3 million in funding...

Professor Balandin’s invited talk at the Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting was selected for the live keynote presentation in the session “2D Atomic and Molecular Sheets—Electronic and Photonic Properties and Device Applications.” Professor Balandin delivered a...

Tammy C.Y. Huang defended her PhD dissertation in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). Tammy’s dissertation research was entitled “Phononic and photonic properties of shape-engineered silicon nanoscale pillar arrays.” During her PhD studies Tammy had an internship...

Alexander Balandin, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Fariborz Kargar, adjunct assistant professor, both of the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE), received Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) funding of...

ECE distinguished professor Alexander Balandin received $500K funding for investigating electric-bias control of phase transitions in a special type of quantum materials. The Department of Energy (DOE) project aims at understanding physical mechanisms and developing...

Professor Balandin's invited talk entitled "Monitoring and Controlling Charge-Density-Waves in 2D Materials," which was supposed to be presented at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Denver, Colorado on Monday March 2nd, was, instead, presented at...

Congratulations to Sahar Naghibi who defended her PhD dissertation in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and accepted employment with the Keysight Technologies in Santa Clara, California. Sahar’s new job is research and development (R&D) relevant to her prior...

The collaborative project between UC Riverside and Stanford explores a recently discovered class of more than 400 materials that form one-dimensional wires of bonded atoms surrounded by a tubular, two-dimensional van der Waals gap avoiding any unsaturated atoms at the...

Professor Balandin was named a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category. Highly Cited Researchers are among those who have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple papers, highly cited by their...

Alexander Balandin, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside and Ludwig Bartels, a professor of chemistry, have received a $1.12 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct data-driven discovery,...

Professor Balandin delivered plenary lecture entitled Low-Frequency Noise in Low -Dimensional van der Waals Materials at The International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. ICNF is the most prestigious international conference in...

Over the summer of 2019, three PhD graduates of Professor Balandin’s Nano-Device Laboratory and Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center accepted employment with Intel Corporation in Portland. Ece Aytan received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering...

Alexander Balandin, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, has received the Brillouin Medal from the International Phononics Society. The award was presented at the Phononics 2019: 5th International Conference on Phononic...

Electronic devices such as transistors are getting smaller and will soon hit the limits of conventional performance based on electrical currents. Devices based on magnonic currents—quasi-particles associated with waves of magnetization, or spin waves, in certain...

The UCR researchers have now found that composites containing the “wonder material” graphene can block EM radiation while dissipating excess heat. “Surprisingly, we discovered that the graphene composites can block EM energy even below the so-called percolation...

The UCR team has recently determined that graphene composites reach a distinctive thermal percolation threshold at the loading fraction above 20 vol.%. Thermal percolation is a term used to describe formation of the continuous interconnecting network of fillers,...

A technology invented by the researchers at the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center of the University of California, Riverside received the National Innovation Award at TechConnect’s annual convention in Anaheim. TechConnect is a global technology...

The vibrational motion of an atom in a crystal propagates to neighboring atoms, which leads to wavelike propagation of the vibrations throughout the crystal. The way in which these natural vibrations travel through the crystalline structure determine fundamental...

Engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated prototype devices made of an exotic material that can conduct a current density 50 times greater than conventional copper interconnect technology. Current density is the amount of electrical...

NiO is a promising material for spintronic devices, where signals are transmitted not by electrical currents but rather by spin waves, consisting of propagating disturbances in the ordering of magnetic materials, in a domino-like fashion. The interdisciplinary team of...

Research, which led to the discovery of new polymorphs of niobium trisulfide, has been featured on the cover of APL Materials. The discovery was a result of cooperation of the researchers from the University of Georgia and University of California – Riverside in the...

Dr. Alexander A. Balandin, Distinguished Professor and University of California Presidential Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering received two new grants in the nanotechnology field. The one-year $150 K proof-of-concept project...

Ece Aytan, Graduate Student Researcher and PhD student in Professor A.A. Balandin’ Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center received the Best Research Poster – Research Cooperation Award at the 3rd Annual SHINES EFRC Symposium conducted this month at the...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Controlling the flow of heat through semiconductor materials is an important challenge in developing smaller and faster computer chips, high-performance solar panels, and better lasers and biomedical devices. For the first time, an...

ECE professors, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students participated in the Annual SHINES center Symposium. The SHINES Symposium was held on August 25 - 27, 2016 in UCR Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts in downtown Riverside. The symposium featured...

Graphene has emerged as one of the most promising two-dimensional materials but the future of electronics may include two other nanomaterials, according to a new study in ECE Professor Balandin and ECE Professor Lake Groups at the Department of Electrical and Computer...

Dr. Guanxiong Liu – Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL) and the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center led by Professor Alexander A. Balandin received the Best Poster Awards at the 2016 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring...

The research conducted at the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center led by ECE Professor Alexander A. Balandin was highlighted on the web-site of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Newsletter of the DOE Office of Science described recent results obtained...

Two ECE faculty members – Dr. Alexander Balandin, UC Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dr. Wei Ren, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering – are among the five UC Riverside professors included in the Most Influential...

Dr. Alexander Balandin, UC Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering is among the professors included in the Most Influential Scientists list published by the Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list is published...

It was recently announced by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) that the paper co-authored by MSE graduate student Rameez Samnakay and ECE graduate student Chenglong Jiang is the most assessed paper in the Applied Physical Letters journal in 2015. The paper...