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Eliminating the Laptop Charging Brick
Institute faculty member's start-up says gallium nitride could make power electronics more efficient.
Date: 02/24/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Materials, Computing and Networks, Electronics
Tags: conversion loss, cooling systems, Gallium Nitride, power consumption, power converters, semiconductors, Transphorm, UCSB, waste heat
Feds Award New Grant to UCSB
The Institute for Energy Efficiency received a $19 million dollar grant from the stimulus bill for research in energy efficiency.
Date: 04/29/2009
Type: News
Tags: Institute for Energy Efficiency, stimulus, UCSB
Institute faculty member Umesh Mishra.
Institute Faculty Member's Startup Backed by Google Ventures
Institute faculty member Umesh Mishra's start-up company, Transphorm, has come up with a set of chips that could substantially curb power consumption in computers, electric cars, motors and other appliances.
Date: 02/23/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Computing and Networks
Tags: conversion loss, Gallium Nitride, power consumption, power converters, semiconductors, Transphorm, UCSB, waste heat
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Institute for Energy Efficiency Announces Peter J. Frenkel Foundation Fellows
The Institute for Energy Efficiency announces its fourth cohort of graduate student fellows receiving the Frenkel Fellowship.
Date: 10/12/2012
Type: News
Tags: Frenkel Foundation, Frenkel Foundation Fellowships, IEE, Institute for Energy Efficiency, Peter Frenkel, Peter Frenkel Foundation, UCSB, University of California Santa Barbara
LED and Gallium Nitride Tech Hub in Santa Barbara, California
Greentech Media features the Santa Barbara area's leadership in energy efficiency technology, mentioning Institute faculty members Shuji Nakamura and Umesh Mishra: Nakamura for his LED research and Umesh Mishtra for his startup company Transphorm.
Date: 01/06/2012
Type: News
Technologies: Materials, Lighting & Displays, Smart Grid
Tags: Gallium Nitride, light emitting diode, startups, UCSB
Record-Breaking Research Funding
The Institute's research grant to establish the Center for Energy Efficient Materials helped boost UCSB's research funding levels to new heights during the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
Date: 07/29/2010
Type: Article
Technologies: General Information
Tags: Center for Energy Efficient Materials, Institute for Energy Efficiency, research funding, UCSB
Researchers Develop New Way of Harvesting Solar Energy Using Nanoparticles in Water
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are developing a new method of harvesting the Sun's energy. "It is the first radically new and potentially workable alternative to semiconductor-based solar conversion devices to be developed in the past 70 years or so."
Date: 02/27/2013
Type: Article
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: alternative to semiconductor-based, new method, solar energy, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
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UCSB Graduate Programs Among Top in U.S., According to New NRC Assessment
A new report by the National Research Council reveals that UCSB's graduate programs are among the best in the country: nearly one third of the programs were ranked in the top five and the Materials Department was ranked number one.
Date: 09/28/2010
Type: News
Technologies: General Information
Tags: graduate programs, materials, National Research Council (NRC), UCSB
UCSB Ranked No. 2 in the World in Leiden Ranking of Top 500 Universities
In the latest rankings by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, UC Santa Barbara has placed second on the annual list of the top 500 major universities in the world in terms of impact in the field of the sciences.
Date: 04/19/2013
Type: Article
Tags: Leiden University, Ranking, Santa Barbara, Science, UCSB, University of California

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