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Six IEE faculty rank among the most influential scientists in the world

Sixteen UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named among the most influential scientists in the world, according to the 2018…

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Six IEE faculty rank among the most influential scientists in the world

Sixteen UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named among the most influential scientists in the world, according to the 2018…

Awards and Accolades, In the News

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Six IEE faculty rank among the most influential scientists in the world

Sixteen UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named among the most influential scientists in the world, according to the 2018…

Awards and Accolades, In the News

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Six IEE faculty rank among the most influential scientists in the world

Sixteen UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named among the most influential scientists in the world, according to the 2018…

Awards and Accolades, In the News

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Professor Guillermo Bazan featured in the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame journal

Guillermo Bazan, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and of materials, is featured in the journal Advanced Materials 2018…

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Energy efficiency project led by Dan Blumenthal gets funded by the Department of Energy

A project led by Daniel Blumenthal, a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s…

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Umesh Mishra to Deliver 63rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture

The proliferation of electronic devices and the growing need to process large amounts of data are among the reasons why the world needs…

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Institute for Energy Efficiency Announces 2018-2019 Peter J. Frenkel Foundation Fellows

The Institute for Energy Efficiency announced this year’s Peter J. Frenkel Foundation fellows. This award is made possible…

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Department of Energy announces $98M for 40 transformative energy technology projects

The U.S. Department of Energy announced $98 million in funding for 40 new projects as part of OPEN 2018, the Advanced Research Projects…

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10/2018 newsletter

Newsletter: October 2018

IEE has released it's quarterly newsletter featuring news, research and announcements from August through October 2018. View the full…

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Professor Chris Van de Walle’s group elucidates recombination mechanisms in hybrid perovskites

Hybrid perovskites are a group of materials that combine organic molecules with an inorganic framework in a perovskite lattice structure…

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An Additional Fund for Solar Power

With a measure signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last week, the state of California has allocated an additional $800 million for…

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College of Engineering Dean Rod Alferness receives The Optical Society's highest award

Where would modern life be without the internet as we know it? When the technology became mainstream in the 1990s, demand for high-speed…

Awards and Accolades

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California to move to 100% Carbon-Free Electricity by 2045

California passed Senate Bill (SB) 100, requiring that 100% of the state’s electricity comes from carbon-free sources by 2045…

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IEE Partner Bloom Energy files for IPO

Read on to learn about the five things to know about the Silicon Valley clean-energy "unicorn" that is Bloom Energy.

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UCSB Faculty receive Department of Energy research grants to advance the future of energy

With energy demand growing rapidly and fossil-fuel combustion driving climate change, it is increasingly critical that we transform how…

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