NRL News

First Demonstration of Graphene’s Robustness under ESD Recognized with the EOS/ESD Symposium’s Top Technical Awards

October 3, 2013

First demonstration of graphene’s robustness under Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) recognized with the EOS/ESD symposium’s top technical awards for 2012.

Schematic view of a back-gated field effect transistor fabricated by UCSB researchers using monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) channel material.

NRL Team Demonstrate First n-type FETs on Monolayer WSe2 with Record Performance

June 21, 2013

UC Santa Barbara researchers demonstrate first n-type field effect transistors on monolayer tungsten diselenide with record performance.

Kaustav Banerjee Receives Prestigious Guest Professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

October 24, 2012

Kaustav Banerjee receives prestigious guest professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

This is a schematic of a Tunnel-FET biosensor proposed by UCSB researchers and its band diagram illustrating band-to-band-tunneling triggered by biomolecule conjugation. Credit: Peter Allen, UCSB.

NRL Researchers Invent Ultra-Sensitive Quantum-Mechanical Sensor and Break the Fundamental Limits of Field-Effect-Transistor Based Biosensors

April 16, 2012

A new quantum mechanical-based biosensor designed by a team at University of California, Santa Barbara offers tremendous potential for detecting biomolecules at ultra-low concentrations, from instant point-of-care disease diagnostics, to detection of trace substances for forensics and security.

Professor Banerjee Receives the Humboldt Foundation's Bessel Prize

March 7, 2012

Professor Banerjee receives the Humboldt Foundation's Bessel Prize.

Professor Kaustav Banerjee’s Tunnel-FET Biosensor Research in Nature Nanotechnology

February 11, 2012

Professor Kaustav Banerjee’s tunnel-FET biosensor research in Nature Nanotechnology.