Press Releases
4/30/02
UC News Wire -
Gov.
Davis signs funding for California Institutes, UC Merced
Gov. Gray Davis has signed legislation that will provide $308
million in lease-revenue bonds to help build the four University
of California Institutes for Science and Innovation and an
additional $26.7 million to construct the first classroom
building at UC Merced.
4/2/02 - Japanese
Government Agency Awards Nakamura Multi-Million Dollar Grant
CNSI prof. Shuji
Nakamura is awarded the ERATO to figure out how to make
a bulk crystal of the compound semiconducting material, gallium
nitride.
3/4/02 - UCLA's
Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging Hosts Lecture Series
for Scientific and Medical Community
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12/01 - Researchers
Discover How to Control Electron Spin Electrically
CNSI prof. Dr. Awschalom
reports in the Dec. 6 issue of Nature the first demonstration of
continuous electrical tunability of spin coherence in semiconductor
nanostructures.
9/26/01 - Researchers
Discover How Micro-organisms Affect Global Cycling of Iron
CNSI Prof. Alison
Bulter and lab discover the functions of the iron-bound ligand
molecules, siderophores, in marine micro-organisms. "Understanding
the uptake of this scarce micro-nutrient will help provide more
insight into how these microscopic plants and bacteria cope in these
oceanic environments."
06/28/01 - New
Technique to Tip Electron Spins Makes Way for All-Optical
Quantum Computation in Solids
Using femtosecond lasers, the Awschalom
lab at UCSB controls electronic spins by manipulating the
electron's direction of rotation. Spintronics (spin-based
electronics) provide new and exciting ideas toward the development
of solid-state quantum computers.
06/13/01 - Spin
Moves with Unexpected Ease From One Semiconductor to Another
Dr. Awschalom
and researchers at Penn State demonstrate the transfer of
electronic spins across semiconductor interfaces. The research
uses the spin reservoir of one semiconductor material as the
source for "spin batteries" through which a current
of spins moves from one material to the other when an electric
field is applied.
