The Institute in the News
Galen Stucky, an Institute faculty member, was the lead player in a UCSB research team to win a $1.6 million federal grant to further explore and develop a more user-friendly alternate to the lithium ion batteries.Dec 6 2012
The DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy awards UC Santa Barbara $1.6 million to develop an energy storage device for hybrid electric vehicles that combines the properties of capacitors and batteries into one technology.Nov 28 2012
WIRED Magazine features an article on the history of LEDs. Institute Faculty Shuji Nakamura's blue LED breakthrough is part of LED history.Nov 2 2012
Bowers talks about Institute research and ways research can improve quality of life around the world.Oct 3 2012
Transphorm, a company founded by Institute faculty member Umesh Mishra, recieved $35 million from two prominent Japanese companies to help manufacture Transphorm's power devices, including their next generation GaN power devices.Oct 2 2012
Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association honors Institute Faculty Member, Shuji Nakamura, with the Inventor of the Year Award for his exceptional contributions in the technical arts.Sep 28 2012
Institute Faculty Member, Umesh Mishra, was awarded the Heinrich Welker Award for “sustained leadership in the development of gallium nitride-based high-power electronics from conception, education to commercialization.”Sep 20 2012
Shuji Nakamura, the 2006 Millennium Prize winner, along with his colleagues James Speck and Steven DenBaars have created the "first LED on the market to be grown on a GaN substrate." Technology Academy Finland features an article on the researchers' latest LED innovations.Sep 18 2012
The Smithsonian writes an article on Dan Morse's work on biologically-inspired semiconductors. This radical new approach to creating silicon semiconductors may increase the processing speed of our computers.Jul 18 2012
Seoul Semiconductor Company launched a new LED product. Institute faculty member Shuji Nakamura is an advisor to Seoul and was there for the unveiling. Also, Seoul Optodevice Company awarded Institute faculty member James Speck a $500,000 endowment for his work in solid-state lighting.Jul 13 2012
