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Irvine student HAM radio club kicks off the new school year

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

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Drones for good: Professor Burke flies “Fire Prevention Drone Flight”

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

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BurkeLab installs new super-resolution microscope for live cell microscopy

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

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Professor Burke promoted to rank of IEEE Fellow

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

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New Approach Allows a Measurement of Electrical Activity inside Live Cells

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

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UCI Engineers Collaborate to Attack Virus

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Student Sr. Design project enables web based drone control

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Face of CALIT2: Peter Burke

Professor Peter Burke featured in Interfaces’ “Faces of CalIT2” Fall 2019 edition.    

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Professor Burke presents at EUMW in Paris, France

Professor Burke presented the group’s latest findings at this premier international conference on microwaves and their applications to the life sciences. Professor Peter Burke (UC Irvine), and Profs. Henri Happy, Kamel Haddadi, and Didier Theron (University of Lille, IEMN, Lille, France)

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New Research Adds to Battery Storage Understanding

Aug 28, 2019 – In a follow-up to a study published last year in ACS Nano, electrical engineering and computer science professor Peter Burke and his former doctoral student Jinfeng Li added important detail to the question of how nanowires hold

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