By supporting interdisciplinary work and seeding multicampus projects, CITRIS helps to keep the University of California at the forefront of climate mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Nanotechnology
CHIPS Act a reason to celebrate, says King Liu
“I am truly excited about this new bill,” she writes in the Berkeley Blog.
CITRIS Seed Funding offers up to $60K for multicampus research for social good
Investigators from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz are invited to submit proposals for 2022 CITRIS Seed Awards.
Islam works to improve agricultural production by slowing down the speed of light
CITRIS at UC Davis Campus Director Saif Islam will lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers to bring fluorescence lifetime imaging into agricultural practices.
CITRIS Foundry venture Ayar Labs raises $130M in series C round
The silicon photonics startup will use the funds to ramp up production and secure supply chain partners for its optical I/O solution.
CITRIS PI engineers more energy efficient transistors in NanoLab
In a recent Nature paper, UC Berkeley professor Sayeef Salahuddin details a breakthrough that significantly reduces the energy needed to operate a transistor.
Founding the Future: Highlights from the First Cohorts of the CITRIS Foundry
Since it opened its doors in 2013, the CITRIS Foundry has helped innovators turn their ideas into real-world impact. In the process, the Foundry has […]
Q&A with new NanoLab faculty director
Constance Chang-Hasnain, Berkeley Engineering’s associate dean for strategic alliances, and John R. Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, took the helm […]
Nanolab high-school intern now first-year Golden Bear
A former Berkeley High School intern in the Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory Summer Internship Program for Young Women has returned to campus as a Berkeley […]
Berkeley High suits up at Marvell NanoLab
Three Berkeley High students donned cleanroom suits at the Marvell NanoLab at CITRIS for a summer program designed to inspire young women to consider careers in science. “A rare opportunity to gain hands-on experience,” says professor and program founder Tsu-Jae King Liu.
Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications
Engineers have successfully married electrons and photons within a single-chip microprocessor, a landmark development that opens the door to ultrafast, low-power data crunching. The researchers […]
Meet the new 2015 NanoLab Summer Internship Program graduates
The NanoLab Summer Internship Program provides young women in high school with the first-hand experience of working inside a UC Berkeley lab. Congratulations to Anjali, […]
Chancellor Dirks and EVCP Steele Visit the Marvell NanoLab and CITRIS Invention Lab
UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele visited the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory and CITRIS Invention Lab today, December 19th, 2014. NanoLab […]
Finding Hidden Joules
Ferroelectric material could help the arc of Moore’s Law reach new heights and radically reduce energy consumed by digital devices by Gordy Slack For the […]
CITRIS Signal Newsletter: Bits Add Up
Dear Friends of CITRIS: CITRIS is a high-performance, high-energy organization, and we are pleased to feature two projects demonstrating this theme. The first confirms a […]
New Discovery Opens Door For Radical Reduction in Energy Consumed by Digital Devices
Direct Observation of Negative Capacitance in Ferroelectric Material Reported by CITRIS Engineers and Materials Scientists at UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA (December 15, 2014) – An article […]
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Tours UC Berkeley
Oakland, CA – Today Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) toured the UC Berkeley’s research and innovation facilities including the Center for Information Technology Research in the […]
Patrick Scaglia
Patrick Scaglia is co-Founder of the CITRIS Foundry technology incubator program. He serves on the CITRIS Advisory Board and is a consultant and technology advisor to startup ventures. Patrick was a Hewlett Packard Executive for 12 years, seven of those as CTO, and most recently as VP and CTO of HP Cloud Services and Applications.
Big Ideas has Launched
The 2013-2014 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest is now open.
Fall 2013 CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series
This semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy series will now be folded into the Research Exchange seminar series…
Camille Crittenden has been named CITRIS Deputy Director
Dr. Camille Crittenden has been named as the Deputy Director of CITRIS
Industry Funding for Scientific Research
CITRIS was featured in a recent article by Joaquin Palomino in the East Bay Express that explores the complicated relationship between corporate support and scientific research on university campuses.
Big Ideas finalists for 2013
Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual innovation contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of UC undergraduate and graduate students who have “big ideas.”
Spring 2013 CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series
The Spring 2013 Research Exchange Seminar Series