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Anthony Cheetham is a Professor in the Materials and Chemistry Departments and former Director of UCSB’s Materials Research Laboratory. His primary interests are in the synthesis and properties of novel open-framework systems, especially phosphates, and the study of transition metal oxides.

David Clarke, Professor in the Materials Department, is involved in ceramics, metals, composites, and semiconductors, as well as introducing new approaches for studying the interrelations between microstructure and properties. He is the Director of the newly established Institute for Multiscale Materials Studies (IMMS), which is a collaborative research effort between UC and LANL.

Larry A. Coldren (Professor of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering) is the Fred Kavli Professor of Optoelectronics and Sensors and Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Optoelectronics Technology Center. His research currently focuses on components and fabrication techniques for III-V optoelectronic integrated circuits, including vertical-cavity lasers and widely tunable lasers for applications to optical switching and noiseless amplification.

Evelyn Hu (Professor of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering) is the Scientific Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, a UCLA-UCSB collaborative California Institute for Science and Innovation. She hold the first appointment as the Peter J. Clarke Professorship for the Director of the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Her current research focuses on high-resolution fabrication of compound semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices, candidate structures for the realization of quantum computation schemes, and novel device structures formed through the heterogeneous integration of materials. Recently her work has involved the interaction of quantum dots in high Q microdisk and photonic crystal cavities.

Fred Lange, Professor of Materials, centers his current research on chemical routes to synthesize epitaxial thin-films. He is a member of an interdisciplinary group in the FSF sponsored Materials Research Laboratory.

Pierre Petroff is a Professor in the Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering Departments. His most recent work focuses on the electronic properties of novel hybrid materials, quantum wires, and quantum boxes.

Chris G. Van de Walle joined the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as Professor of Computational Materials in 2004. His research interests lie in novel electronic materials, including wide-bandgap semiconductors (III-V nitrides, II-VI compounds, and oxides); the physics and chemistry of hydrogen interactions with solids, liquids, and molecular systems; and hydrogen in materials: storage and production (photoelectrochemical cells).