March 31, 2022 – Professor Peter J. Burke in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is receiving a new grant from National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems to develop an engineered electronic nose that…
An international delegation of professors from Lille, France visited BurkeLab this week. Professor Kamel Haddadi and colleague Christoph Loyez esteemed professor at the University of Lille, and IEMN (Institut d’électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie https://www.iemn.fr) visited BurkeLab in January…
PhD candidate in BurkeLab Shawn Lee presented his thesis work “Investigation of mitochondria cristae ultrastructure and membrane potential changes using super-resolution Airyscan microscopy” at an Army Research Office online workshop on bioelectricity. “With our new super resolution microscope, we are…
Professor Burke established two-way communication with the remote island of Reunion, off the coast of Madagascar, using FT8 digital communications and bouncing the radio waves (of 20 m wavelength) off the ionosphere. Reunion island is the closest land mass to…
Professor Burke presented his talk: “Quantum sensors in biology: Challenges and Opportunities” at an invitation only workshop on quantum bio-sensing in Washington, DC. The workshop was sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and included in person participants…
Professor Burke, as advisor of the UCI HAM radio club (an official ARRL chapter), kicked off the new academic year with a new student president. The students checked the antennas on the top of the MTSB building, and calibrated some…
Professor Burke provided assistance to the campus fire authorities using his drone. His flights provided aerial footage of the “Fuel Modification Zone”, a region of reduced vegetation around a residential neighborhood on the UCI campus (University Hills) to prevent risk…
BurkeLab took delivery and installation of an Airy scan super-resolution microscope for live cell microscopy this week. The equipment will allow sub-wavelength imaging of living cells and organelles such as mitochondria. It contains an integrated, CO2 and temperature controlled incubation…
Dec. 3, 2020 – UC Irvine electrical engineering and computer science professors Athina Markopoulou and Peter Burke have been named 2021 IEEE Fellows in recognition of their outstanding research achievements. The fellow designation is awarded by the board of directors to no more than one-tenth…
July 1, 2020 – Several years ago, UC Irvine electrical engineering professor Peter Burke helped develop a broadband calibration technique that could successfully measure, with nanoscale resolution, the properties of nanowires, nanotube quantum dots and other nanoelectronic components on top of and inside of…