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UCSB Summit on Energy Efficiency, May 1-2, 2013

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Google and Partner Offer Home Energy Management Without Smart Meters

Google and Energy Inc. provide a free home energy management tool that does not require a smart meter.

Date: 10/06/2009

Type: News

Technologies: Buildings, Control Systems, Computing and Networks, Electronics, Smart Grid

Tags: home energy management, smart grid, technology

Greener Graphene? Eco-Friendlier Mass Production Method Shows Promise

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a method for quickly and cheaply mass-producing graphene, a carbon material that could improve the efficiency of energy storage.

Date: 06/22/2010

Type: Article

Technologies: Batteries, Electronics, Energy Storage, Lighting & Displays

Tags: electronics, energy storage technologies, graphene, OLED, ultracapacitors

How About Cash for Tech Clunkers?

Popular Science commentary on the Cash for Clunkers program suggest a Cash for Tech Clunkers program.

Date: 08/27/2009

Type: Blog

Technologies: Computing and Networks, Economic Impact, Electronics

Hybrid Silicon Lasers: The Final Frontier to Intergrated Computing

In this recent paper in Optics & Photonics News, John Bowers and the team at UCSB discuss how silicon photonics may revolutionize the 21st century by bringing together two technological areas that transformed the 20th - photonics and microelectronics.

Date: 05/18/2010

Type: Article

Technologies: Computing and Networks, Electronics, Photonics

Tags: integrated circuits, lasers, semiconductors

Intel, too, eyes home energy management

A variety of companies have developed home energy management devices and web applications.

Date: 01/19/2010

Type: News

Technologies: Buildings, Control Systems, Electronics

Tags: home energy display, Intel

John Bowers: Video & Presentation

Using hybrid silicon devises, optical fiber, modulators, and hybrid lasers, a fast, low energy internet is being created.

Date: 05/20/2009

Type: Slides, Video

Technologies: Electronics

Tags: electronics, internet, lasers, photonics, silicon, thin film

Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips

Designing for tomorrow: computer chips for electronics are becoming smaller, cheaper, and more flexible. This opens doors for the next generation of electronics.

Date: 02/28/2013

Type: Article

Technologies: Materials, Electronics

Tags: flexible chips, inorganic chips, organic chips, semiconductors, silicon chips