Our Heritage

UC Santa Barbara has been a leading research institute focused on Physics, Materials and Devices. UC Santa Barbara's programs in Electronics and Photonics, Physics and Materials are amongst the top ranking instittion worldwide. 

UC Santa Barbara ECE Department is the only electrical engineering department that has been honored with 2 Nobel prizes in physics. Ranking 4th in the NRC ranking, 21st in US News, UC Santa barbara's research has always been amongst the highest impact works.

The collabration between the brilliant minds of physicists. material scienctist and electrical engineers at UC Santa Barbara, in parallel with the cutting-edge facilities provided at California Nano Science Institute (Grade 100 cleanroom) has helped ucsb to follow through...

Our Facilities

Our motto in NRL is : " If we can't do it, no one can .."

Looking forward

UC Santa Barbara has been climbing the rankings in the past 20 years, now ranking amongst the top 5 public schools in the nation. Addition of the los avaros ranch to the school provide UCSB with even more goergeus locations to conduct research... It is fair to say that UCSB is the rising star of california and here, at NRL, we aim to conduct a research on such caliber...