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New Report on Accelerating Systems Engineering for Energy Efficiency in Buildings
UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency announces the release of a white paper which recommends improvements and actions needed to advance the development and adoption of integrated building control systems for energy efficiency.
Date: 06/14/2011
Type: News, Report
Technologies: Buildings, Control Systems, Modeling
Engineers Envision 'Two-Dimensional' Graphene Metamaterials and One-Atom-Thick Optical Devices
University of Pennsylvania engineers have proposed the possibility of 'two-dimensional' metamaterials that could be achieved by controlling the conductivity of sheets of graphene.
Date: 06/09/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Materials, Computing and Networks, Electronics
Tags: graphene
Startup's Battery Could Provide Cheaper Grid Storage
Battery startup Primus Power's newly designed flow batteries could make grid scale energy storage cheaper.
Date: 06/07/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries
Tags: flow battery, modular design
Institute Newsletter: Summer 2011
In this Issue: Institute welcomes a new industry partner; Holbrook Foundation fellows announced; Start-up focuses on transforming power conversion in electronics; Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency 2011 videos.
Date: 06/07/2011
Type: News
New Industry Partner Announced: PG&E
Institute announces Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) as the latest member of it's Industry Partners Program.
Date: 06/06/2011
Type: News
Auger coefficient figure
UCSB theory blames indirect Auger recombination for nitride LED droop
UC Santa Barbara theorists say that the nitride semiconductor LED lighting performance problem, commonly referred to as ‘efficiency droop,’ is caused by Auger recombination.
Date: 04/20/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Lighting & Displays
Tags: Gallium Nitride, LED lighting, lighting efficiency, nitride, semiconductors
LED efficiency puzzle solved by UC Santa Barbara theorists
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, say they’ve figured out the cause of a problem that’s made light-emitting diodes (LEDs) impractical for general lighting purposes.
Date: 04/19/2011
Type: News
The 56th Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair
Held on Friday, March 4, 2011 in UCSB’s Corwin Pavilion, the 2011 fair brought together over 140 students from across Santa Barbara County competing for over $4,000 in prizes as well as advancement to the California State Science Fair.
Date: 04/14/2011
Type: News
Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency
Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency will showcase technologies and opportunities for a sustainable energy future
Leaders from industry, academia and government from around the country will gather to discuss the latest advances and opportunities in energy efficiency at the third annual Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency.
Date: 03/25/2011
Type: News
energy storage
Grid-scale energy storage breakthrough? Upgrading vanadium redox batteries
A new development in vanadium redox batteries from DOE's Pacific Northwest Regional Laboratory could make them a promising option for grid-scale energy storage.
Date: 03/17/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Smart Grid
Tags: batteries, energy storage capacity, energy storage technologies, energy-efficient batteries, grid storage, grid-scale energy storage

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