Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara

INNOVATION & COLLABORATION

UCSB Graduate student Jack Bargemann lays down sheet metal to smooth the ride of the LZ Detector as it comes underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo by Matthew Kapust.

Optical and UHV elements of a quantum gas machine in the Weld Lab.

Active nematics liquid crystals. Photo by Linnea Lemma in the Dogic Lab.

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Hafnium Nitride creates a colorful pattern in the sputter system used in the Mazin Lab. Photo by Miguel Daal, a Postdoc in the Mazin Lab.

At work in the Class 7 cleanroom in Broida Hall are from left to right Will Ortez operating the gantry robot, Onofre Jauregui modifying tooling, Susanne Kyre at the measuring microscope, and Alethea Butler-Nalin on the wirebond machine. The team is made up of engineers, technicians, graduate students, and undergraduates.

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Phone: 805-893-3888, Fax: 805-893-3307
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Campus MailCode: 9530, Campus Map (Broida Hall)

Main office hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm and 1-4pm [PST]

Department of Physics
Broida Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530

Upcoming Event

Department Colloquium: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - Time Crystals, the quest for a new phase of matter

Pedram Roushan, Staff Scientist, Google

September 28, 2021 - 3:45pm

Physics Department Colloquium