David Burghoff’s group, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Cheng Guo, has identified a mechanism that allows lasers operating near exceptional points to switch between single-mode emission and frequency combs with different repetition rates.

PhD Students Shafin Bin Hamid and Alexander Chin in Associate Professor Jean Anne Incorvia’s INC Lab recently published a paper in Journal of Applied Physics that shows non-collinear antiferromagnets and ferrimagnets have emerged as a solution for tunable random number generators.

Speaker Dr. Rahul Lall will discuss circuit techniques at the IC-, firmware-, and system-level that help circumvent the sensitivity-temporal resolution bottleneck in medical imaging to allow for precision functional imaging of cells, disease states, and treatment outcomes.

Assistant Professor Shyam Shankar published a paper in Physical Review Applied that demonstrates a new interaction between a Kerr-cat qubit and a transmon, a step toward more efficient, fault-tolerant quantum error correction.

Graduate student Daniel Krueger from the Mid-IR Photonics Lab recently published a paper in Optica that demonstrates a novel tunable optical cavity using the ferroelectric material barium titanate (BTO). This work is another step towards developing low-power, high-speed, and reconfigurable photonic circuitry in BTO.

PhD student Yonathan Magendzo Beharultra from the Wasserman Mid-IR Photonics Lab published a paper that shows thin detector structures can be built into resonant photonic architectures after epitaxial growth, boosting detector response while keeping dark currents low.

The Microelectronics Research Center and leadership from the Cockrell School of Engineering welcomed the Taiwanese delegation for a research overview.

Assistant Professor Cheng Guo and two students recently published a paper in Physical Review A that serves as a tutorial on three fundamental symmetries of photonics: reciprocity, energy conservation, and time-reversal symmetry.

PhD student Yunrui Wang from Cheng Guo’s research group was recently featured on the cover of Newton by Cell Press for his paper titled "Probability Distribution of Coherent Transport of Random Waves."

PhD student Shafin Bin Hamid from Jean Anne Incorvia’s group received the top student presentation award at the 2026 Device Research Conference (DRC).

A manuscript published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics demonstrates room temperature operation of mid-wave infrared detectors with extremely low dark current and high EQE, in a substrate side illumination configuration.

Researchers led by Jean Anne Incorvia created a stick-on graphene “tattoo” for leaves that measures moisture in real time and could potentially enable plant-based neural network monitoring systems.

A paper led by PhD student Ian Anderson won the Best Paper Award (Second Prize) at the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics.

Gautham Ramanarayanan, undergraduate student in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won 2nd place in the Student Research Competition at the 2026 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems.

The booming semiconductor industry is hungry for talent and ripe for innovation. Texas is the capitol of the U.S. semiconductor resurgence, and with over $1.4 billion in semiconductor investments, The University of Texas at Austin is at the center of it all.

Three Texas ECE faculty, Poulami Das, Linran Fan, and Shyam Shankar, have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin are leading an academic and industry all-star team that aims to revolutionize the production of semiconductor chips with a new 3D printing method. The new approach, which the researchers are calling Holographic Metasurface Nano-Lithography (HMNL), aims for faster, more efficient and environmentally friendly production of advanced electronics.

UT Austin continues to lead in federally prioritized research and development areas, closely aligning with the White House’s recent memo on national R&D priorities.

Seeking to ensure America’s national security and global military leadership, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has selected the Texas Institute for Electronics at The University of Texas at Austin to develop the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems for the Department of Defense.

A technological leap sits on the horizon, with exciting capabilities like quantum computing, soft robotics and more coming down the pike. To bring these ideas to reality will require engineering new classes of materials that make up their building blocks.