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Time Lens Speeds Optical Data
Researchers at Cornell have developed a silicon device to speed up optical data transmission. The device requires little energy and works by splitting up the data into pulses, which it outputs at 270 gigabits per second.
Date: 09/28/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Photonics
Tags: data transfer, optics, silicon, silicon devices
These Solar-Powered Street Lights Deliver 98% Power Conversion Efficiency
A new generation of photovoltaic streetlamps was debuted at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, which promise 98% efficiency in converting stored energy to light.
Date: 01/13/2012
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics, Energy Conversion, Lighting & Displays
Professor Dan Schechtman
The Quasicrystal Laureate
Professor Dan Schechtman received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week for his discovery of quasicrystals, a new form of matter with many practical implications and an atomic structure previously thought to be impossible.
Date: 10/12/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Materials
Tags: applied materials, atomic structure, quasicrystals
The Pressure is On: Pushing for Solid State Lighting to Reduce Global Energy Usage
The manufacturing sector could drastically lower the cost of solid state lighting, the same way the price of the semiconductor has dropped in the last few decades.
Date: 05/05/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Lighting & Displays
Tags: economics, LED, semiconductor, solid state lighting
The Mother of All EV-Solar-Smart Grid Integrations
The ambitious Austin, TX-based Pecan Street project is piloting a number of green neighborhood technologies, but the real challenge will be getting these systems to talk to each other to reduce energy consumption and peak loads.
Date: 10/11/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Buildings, Control Systems, Solar/Photovoltaics, Communication, Energy Conversion, Energy Storage, Smart Grid, Transportation
Tags: batteries, electric cars, electric vehicles, home energy management, peak load, photovoltaics, smart grid
The Lithium Chase
The hunt for supplies of lithium is underway in order to meet the demand for more hybrid and electric vehicles requiring lithium-ion batteries for energy storage.
Date: 03/09/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Energy Storage, Transportation
Tags: electric vehicle, hybrid, lithium
Clean Car Calculator
The Institute and Bren School's Clean Car Calculator in the news
Andrew Revkin talks about our online tool for gauging the relative value of efficient cars
Date: 05/11/2012
Type: News
Technologies: Energy Efficiency Policy, Transportation
Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficient cars, hybrid cars
The Green Gaucho Newsletter
The UCSB Green Campus Program has published the Green Gaucho Newsletter for May, 2010. Contents include updates on UCSB's Energy Competition, the "Student Services Renewable Energy Initiative," the Internship for Credit program, and much more.
Date: 05/18/2010
Type: News

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