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Advanced Wireless Lighting System Implementation at UCSB

The deployment phase is underway for UC Santa Barbara's energy-efficient networked lighting control systems.

Graduate, Undergraduate

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Project Led by Mishra Group Selected for ARPA-E's SWITCHES Program

Umesh Mishra's group received $3 million in ARPA-E funding for vertical GaN semiconductor research.

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UCSB Fundraising Event to Bring Solar-Powered Lamps to Community in Zambia

A team of students from UC Santa Barbara's Department of Film and Media Studies are seeking to provide a secondary light source to the…

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Audubon Report Says Wind Turbines, Wildlife Can Coexist in Maine

One of Maine’s top wildlife advocacy groups says there’s plenty of room in the state to accommodate animal habitat and wind energy…

Industry and Business

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Cree Launches Dissipation-Defying 75W-Equivalent LED Bulb

Cree, the LED company best known for their $10 LED bulb, announced a 75W-equivalent, 1100 lumen model, priced at $24.

Industry and Business

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The World's First Full Line of LEDs Guaranteed for Life - Never Change a Light Bulb Again

Energy Saving Solutions announced that their popular ‘Forever LED Light’ and induction lighting systems, an energy-efficient, long-…

Industry and Business

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Limited Area Epitaxy Applied to Semipolar GaN Laser Diodes

Institute faculty members Shuji Nakamura and Steven DenBaars are participating in LED research involving true green semipolar InGaN-…

Research

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Ink-Jet Printing Could Be the Key to Next-Generation OLED Displays

Manufacturing equipment maker, Kateeva, says its new manufacturing equipment can produce affordable displays based on organic light-…

Industry and Business

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New Materials Light The Way To Blue LED Innovations

Institute faculty member Shuji Nakamura enabled an entire industry based on high-brightness LEDs by developing a practical way to…

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Charge a Battery Remotely Using Hydropower

Hydrobee Lets You Charge A Battery From A Fast-Flowing River To Juice Up USB Devices Off-Grid.

Industry and Business

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Developing Low-Cost Cellular Network Architecture for Remote Areas

To help alleviate the problems of high cost and low availability of cellular network access in remote rural areas, researchers at the…

Research

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LED Light Emitting Carpets Are So Much Cooler Than Non-LED Ones

Philips has teamed up with Desso, a leading carpet and flooring company, to create "light transmissive carpets."

Industry and Business

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Advances in Computing Technology: Memristors and Neural Applications

Rapid advances in computing technology have depended upon Moore's Law, which refers to the ability to scale down transistor size with…

Research

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'Unite to Light' Helps Brighten Typhoon-Hit Areas of the Philippines

Unite to Light, a nonprofit co-founded by UCSB Engineering professor and Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency, John Bowers,…

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Graphene Supercapacitors Ready for Electric Vehicle Energy Storage

Conventional batteries take so long to charge that they cannot efficiently store braking energy. Graphene supercapacitors store almost…

Industry and Business

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Solving the Synchronization Problem in Power Networks

With the complexity of future smart grids and the integration challenges posed by renewables, a deeper understanding of the grid’s…

Research