The Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research (BETR) Center is a hub of physical electronics research at the University of California, Berkeley.

Through research in materials, processes, devices and integrated systems, the BETR Center drives innovation toward a vision of global ambient intelligence.

BETR Membership

BETR membership provides a range of exclusive benefits, including access to pre-publication research, newly developed technologies, seminars, students and postdocs, and much more.

BETR Symposium '26
FET 100 Years

The 2026 BETR Symposium was held on May 20 at the UC Berkeley campus.

Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the field effect transistor, this year's event brought together 150+ experts from industry, national labs, and academia.

News & Highlights

Prof. Al Balushi to collaborate with EPIC Center

BETR Center co-Director Prof. Al Balushi will partner with the EPIC Center in the development of new semiconductor materials. The EPIC Center is the Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization Center of Applied Materials — a long-term industry member of the BETR Center.

Breakthrough in Computational Imaging

BETR Center co-Director Prof. Laura Waller led a team in the development of a revolutionary new microscope based on computational imaging — the joint design of hardware and software. This next-generation instrument achieves unprecedented performance by combining detailed magnification (micrometer range) with a wide field of view (centimeter range) and high-speed imaging (videos at a rate of 25.2 billion pixels/second). This work was published in Nature Photonics.

Royal Academy of Engineering

Prof. Ramesh has been elected a fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the field.