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PNNL-Led Team Develops Software Tools to Design Affordable Automotive Composites
Dec 6, 2017Researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and experts from industry and academia have developed software tools, which can predict the fiber orientation and length distribution of ...
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HB-LED Market Growing at 10% CAGR to 2023
Oct 16, 2017The high-brightness LED market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10% during 2016-2023, forecasts Occams Business Research and Consulting in its report ‘Global High Brightness LED Market Research Report Insights, ...
Tags: LED market, LED components
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Suny Poly Professor Awarded $750, 000 by DOE to Develop More Efficient, Cost-Effective SiC Power Electronics Chips
Sep 26, 2017State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...
Tags: Power Electronics Chips, Suny Poly
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Navitas Chosen by Poweramerica to Enable High-Efficiency, High-Density Mobile Fast Chargers
Sep 4, 2017PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private partners from the semiconductor industry, the US Department of Energy (DoE), national laboratories and academia — in early August selected Navitas ...
Tags: PowerAmerica, Fast Chargers
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CSEM, NREL and EPFL Raise Silicon-Based Multi-Junction Solar Cell Efficiency Record
Aug 30, 2017The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Microtechnology
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ARPA-E Awards $30m for 21 Projects as Part of Circuits Program
Aug 28, 2017The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $30m in funding for 21 projects as part of the CIRCUITS program (‘Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies ...
Tags: WBG devices, electronics devices
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Microsemi Awarded Contract to Speed Adoption of SiC Technology as New Member of PowerAmerica
Aug 23, 2017Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which makes chips for aerospace & defense, communications, data-center and industrial markets) has become a member of PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private ...
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US DOE Awards Stion $1m for CIGSSe PV Module Efficiency R&D
Jul 24, 2017Through the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative Program (which to drive down the cost of solar electricity and support solar adoption), Stion Corp of Hattiesburg, MS, USA has been awarded a $956,630 grant and, in conjunction ...
Tags: PV Module
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Sol Voltaics Raises $21.3m to Commercialize 50% Efficiency-Boosting GaAs Nanowire PV Technology
Jul 7, 2017Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which is developing nanomaterials technology for enhancing solar cell efficiency, has closed a record funding round of $21.3m (reckoned to be the largest finance raise for a European solar technology company ...
Tags: solar cell, PV
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Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow George Craford Awarded IEEE Edison Medal
May 18, 2017LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that, at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in San Francisco on 25 May during the IEEE Vision, Innovations, and Challenges (IEEE VIC) Summit, George Craford (the Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow) will ...
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PowerAmerica Funding Speeds Transphorm's Development of 900V GaN HEMT Product
Apr 25, 2017Due to funding assistance from PowerAmerica – a private-public partnership between the US Department of Energy, industry and academia – Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA, which designs and manufactures what ...
Tags: PowerAmerica, GaN products
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Berkeley Lab-LED Team Fabricates Transistor with Record 1nm-Long Gate
Oct 12, 2016A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a gate length (the defining dimension of a transistor) just 1nm long, ...
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Monolith Makes Availability 1200V SiC Schottky Engineering Samples
Oct 12, 2016Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA has announced the availability of engineering samples of 1200V, 5A and 10A silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes in a TO-220 package. Manufactured in the 150mm SiC foundry of X-FAB Texas, ...
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NCSU's SiC-Based Inverter Achieves 12.1kW/L, Close to DOE's Target of 13.4kW/L by 2020
Sep 20, 2016Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have used off-the-shelf silicon carbide (SiC)-based components to develop an inverter with ...
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Hyundai and US DOE Extend Fuel Cell Vehicle Loan Partnership
Jul 13, 2016Hyundai and the US Department of Energy (DOE) are extending their fuel cell vehicle confirmation program, originally from 2013 through 2015, to its second phase, from 2016 through 2017. The program involves Hyundai providing a number of ...
Tags: Fuel Cell Vehicle, Hyundai