Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara

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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.

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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Asst. Professor Xiao Luo Receives DOE Early Career Award

Research Program Award For "Searching for New Physics with Advanced Liquid Argon Detector Capabilities at Neutrino Experiments"

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2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Congratulations to UCSB Physics students awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

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

Upcoming Event

2022 Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium

This symposium will give students the opportunity to learn from their peers about work being done in other fields of physics and to present their own research to a broad audience.

Application Deadline:

Friday, August 26, 2022

September 9, 2022

Physics Research Symposium