At a Glance

OASIS offers flexible membership opportunities designed to co-locate and connect established industry, startups, non-profit, and government partners with the research expertise, talent, and shared-use infrastructure of The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering at UCSB. Through OASIS, members gain access to advanced instrumentation, collaborative research pathways, and a vibrant innovation ecosystem that accelerates discovery and technology translation.

Startup members at OASIS gain access to a purpose-built environment designed to support early-stage growth and long-term success. Members receive assigned and dedicated laboratory infrastructure and have easy access to advanced R&D, prototyping, and automation platforms, without the need to make major capital investments.

For established companies, non-profit, and government members, OASIS drives private-public partnerships through true co-location and a friendly environment for industry-driven and regional initiatives. OASIS provides a gateway into UC Santa Barbara's research ecosystem – creating a platform for ongoing engagement with faculty and students, entrepreneurs and startups, visibility and access to next-generation technologies, and opportunities to create industry centers of excellence.

OASIS Members and Partners

Active Startups

Beacon Photonics

Beacon Photonics, a leader in next-generation photonic technologies, became the inaugural industry member of OASIS in March 2026. Beacon Photonics has developed an innovative solid-state integrated photonics platform that enables the delivery of high-performance lasers and optical microsystems with revolutionary advantages in cost, size, and performance. Wafer-scale manufacturing with domestic foundry partners provides impact for quantum computing and sensing, computing and communications, and national security applications.

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Flucta

Flucta's mission is to dramatically reduce the energy cost of generative AI inference. As AI workloads scale exponentially, current hardware is unsustainable. Flucta's hardware and software solutions deliver the same performance at a fraction of the power.

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1AU Technologies

1AU Technologies is assembling unique assets and capabilities that give us the opportunity to move rapidly in the quest for pioneering next-generation photonic systems.

BioZen Batteries

BioZen develops carbon-based Redoxloyte™ electrolyte fluids for low-cost aqueous flow batteries (FBs), as well as the Redoxino™ Mini Flow Cell Test System for FB qualification. Redoxolyte™ electrolytes are a patent-pending, green-plant-inspired organic semiconductor chemistry enabling single-atom scale molecular modifications to tune solubility (capacity), redox potential (cell voltage), intermolecular interactions (lifetime), and manufacturing efficiency (cost).

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Qudara

Qudara develops integrated, chip-scale technology based on semiconductor quantum dot photon sources for secure quantum communication, networking, and quantum computing.

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Established Organizations

Idemitsu

Idemitsu is developing advanced thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technology for space applications, based on CIGS (Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenide), a lightweight, flexible, and inherently radiation-tolerant semiconductor technology well-suited for next-generation satellite power systems. Building on decades of terrestrial solar development, Idemitsu is adapting this technology to meet the performance, durability, and integration requirements of space environments

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