The Electromagnetics and Communications Laboratory provides a full range of modern RF measurement capabilities up to 22 GHz, including a number of vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and antenna measurement systems. This lab also includes complete production facilities for prototyping printed microwave circuits and antennas. Further, the lab has extensive computer-aided design and simulation capability, including both commercial packages and research-grade in-house solvers. In both research and teaching, connections between physical hardware measurements and computer simulations are stressed.
The Cybersecurity Laboratory provides various research projects in different aspects of cybersecurity including hardware, network, internet of things (IoT), mobile, etc. The Cybersecurity Laboratory supports both graduate and undergraduate student research. This lab has the following facilities for experiments, tests, and data collection and analysis: Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Thermal Chamber, FPGAs, microcontrollers, hacking tools, and more.
The IC Design and Technology Laboratory is dedicated to teaching and research topics on electronic materials and devices, integrated circuit design, and IC manufacturing technologies. Current research topics include modeling complex electronic devices using variational methodologies, materials and device characterizations, fabrication and experimental studies of photovoltaic devices, emission free smart infrastructure, and optimizing energy infrastructure.
The Complex Systems and Control Laboratory provides an experimental environment for students in the area of control system engineering. The lab includes computer-controlled DC motors. These motors provide students with a range of qualitative and quantitative experiments such as inverted pendulum for learning the utility and versatility of feedback in computer-controlled systems.
The Latimer Energy Laboratory(LEL) supports a very wide range of activities relating to solar energy, more specifically photovoltaics (PV) and management of renewable energy sources, from K-12 outreach through graduate engineering. The laboratory focuses on two major directions: 1) measurement and characterization of different renewable energy sources; 2) integration of renewable energy into the electric grid. The laboratory includes instrumentation such as pyranometers, VIS-IR spectrometers, metallurgical microscopes, source meters, grid simulator software and related computers.
The Thermal and Electrical Nanoscale Transport(TENT) Laboratory provides teaching and research facilities for modeling, simulation, and characterization of devices and circuits in the nanoscale. Ongoing research topics include silicon heterostructures; thin dielectric;, high-frequency device and circuit parameter extraction; carbon nanostructures used as electrical interconnect and thermal interface materials; and compact modeling of transistors and interconnects for large-scale circuit simulation. This laboratory is located inside NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, and was established to conduct, promote, and nurture nanoscale science and technology, interdisciplinary research, and education activities at the University.
The Information Processing and Machine Learning Laboratory (IPML) supports research in theoretical algorithm development in digital signal processing, adaptive and nonlinear signal processing, machine learning, and deep learning. Application areas include speech, audio, image and video processing for computer vision, communications, biological testing and diagnostics, artificial intelligence (AI), Voice-over-IP networking. The lab supports student research in algorithms and real-time implementations on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Laboratory equipment includes digital oscilloscopes, video cameras and wireless LAN networking equipment.