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Shuji Nakamura

Soraa Co-Founder Shuji Nakamura Named Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA) Inventor of the Year

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association honors Institute Faculty Member, Shuji Nakamura, with the Inventor of the Year…

Industry and Business

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A Solar Startup that Isn't Afraid of Solyndra's Ghost

The start-up SoloPower recently opened a manufacturing facility, which raised concerns from media and solar observers. SoloPower is…

Industry and Business

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Falling LED Cost Yields Virtual Device Efficiency Gains

Falling LED prices are yielding an unexpected bonanza for system developers: a “virtual” gain in device efficiency, which can be as much…

Industry and Business

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Data Barns in a Farm Town, Gobbling Power and Flexing Muscle

Data centers require a large amount of energy and space. In 2006, Microsoft bought 75 acres of bean fields in Washington State to build…

Industry and Business

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Power, Pollution and the Internet

Data centers have become increasingly important as more information is shared and put online. Yet, a recent study found that data…

Industry and Business

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New Material Could Make Thermoelectric Power Practical

Thermoelectric materials can be used to generate electrical current from waste heat. Researchers have made a new thermoelectric material…

Research

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Umesh Mishra Receives Welker Award for Achievements in Energy Efficient Semiconductor Research

Institute Faculty Member, Umesh Mishra, was awarded the Heinrich Welker Award for “sustained leadership in the development of gallium…

Awards and Accolades

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Onward California: John Bowers

Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency, John Bowers, is Onward California's first featured story. John discusses our many areas…

Alumni, Graduate, Undergraduate

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Next Generation of LEDs

Shuji Nakamura, the 2006 Millennium Prize winner, along with his colleagues James Speck and Steven DenBaars have created the "first LED…

Awards and Accolades

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Sensors Are Key to Better EV Batteries

Two coalitions of companies are now making tiny, lightweight sensors that could make lithium-ion batteries smaller, cheaper, and safer.…

Industry and Business

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China Widens Renewables Lead Over U.S. in Ernst & Young Ranking

China widened its lead over the U.S. in a renewable energy ranking compiled by consultant Ernst & Young that gauges the…

Industry and Business

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SunPower’s C7 Tracker System in 6 MW Solar Farm at Tucson Electric Power

This past January, SunPower unveiled the first commercial deployment of its C7 low-concentration photovoltaic tracker. The concentrator…

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New York is First City to Publish Energy Data for Private Buildings

New York City has publicly posted 2011 energy benchmarking results for over 2,000 large commercial properties. This is the first time…

Industry and Business

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California’s 1-Gigawatt Solar Milestone: What Does It Mean?

California surpassed one gigawatt of solar power production last month. One gigawatt can meet the instantaneous demand of at least 750,…

Industry and Business

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Built-In Germanium Lasers Could Make Computer Chips Faster

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute studied how to make the semiconductor germanium emit laser light. This could be the basis for…

Research