May 2008- UCSB Technology Management Program - the 9th Annual New Venture Competition
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Troy Baker (SSLEC postdoc) and his business partner David Pricco take the two top prizes in Technology Management Program’s 2008 New Venture Competition on May 13, 2008. Nitride Solutions are recipients of the “Most Fundable Idea” and the “Dow Materials Use” awards. - LED lights shine at saving energy in tech gear (pdf)
Monday, May 5, 2008
The same innovation that makes laptop screens thinner turns out to be one of the best energy-saving technologies on Earth - and it's all thanks to new tricks that make it possible to create more illumination using the most humble member of the semiconductor family, the light-emitting diode, or LED.
April 2008- Evelyn Hu elected to the National Academy of Sciences
April 29th, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 9 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. - Recognition of Yukina Warner's 20 years of service to UCSB. Photo was taken at the 04/24/2008 Nitrides Seminar.
 - The LED Illumination Revolution
Forbes.com: Mark P. Mills 02.27.08, 5:05 PM ET
About 12 billion electric lights on the planet use Edison bulbs; a third are in the U.S. So, lighting up the world consumes about 2 trillion kilowatt-hours annually, or one-eighth of all electric power. This takes a lot of fuel: the equivalent of nearly a billion tons of coal annually. In the U.S., half of that is in fact coal. Or, in oil-equivalent terms, U.S. lighting uses the equivalent of 50% of the energy used by all cars on American roads. - Universities Switch to LED Lighting to Help Save Energy, Reduce Costs and Protect the Environment
DURHAM, NC, APRIL 22, 2008
U.C. Santa Barbara installed 23 LED streetlights from BetaLED on a campus street and reports that compared to its traditional streetlights, it is achieving a 44 percent reduction in energy use as well as better light distribution and color rendition. - Materials Department Chair elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society
April 8, 2008
James S. Speck, Chair of the Materials Department in the College of Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, "for seminal studies of strain relaxation in epitaxial films, and for the development of molecular beam epitaxial growth of GaN, and applications of nonpolar orientations of GaN."
March 2008February 2008- MC-CAM and SSLEC reception in honor of Dr. Fumio Orito
Friday, February 29, 2008
 - Institute for Energy Efficiency launched at UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA, February 28, 2008
A new Institute for Energy Efficiency was launched today at UC Santa Barbara. The UCSB institute is under the direction of Professor John Bowers of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and will involve approximately 50 faculty members from multiple disciplines on the campus.
December 2007- Scientists make single-photon sources brighter
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
A research team at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), headed by Prof. Dirk Bouwmeester (Physics), Prof. Pierre Petroff (Materials and ECE) and Prof. Larry Coldren (ECE), has created a robust micron-sized semiconductor device that can emit single photons on demand at a rate of 31 million photons per second (31 MHz) into an optical fiber, five times better than previously possible. - SSLEC's 1st Annual Review and Kick-off
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Engineering Science Building (ESB), Conference Room 1001
October 2007- 10/24/2007 Nitrides Seminar speaker, Dr. Nanishi from Ritsumeikan University, Japan. From left to right: Makoto Saito, Steve DenBaars, Yasushi Nanishi and Fumio Orito.
- Recognition of Brian Carralejo and Dan Cohen's 20 years of service to UCSB. Photo was taken at the 10/24/2007 Nitrides Seminar.
- Shuji Nakamura has been announced as a highlighted speaker at the Key Conference, March 2-4, 2008 in Key West, Florida. For more information visit here .
- Congratulations to Al Gore for receiving the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. The photo below was taken during the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival with Professor Steve DenBaars.
September 2007
August 2007 - Efficient Semipolar Blue LEDs Created on Freestanding Substrate
Photonics Spectra, August 2007
Blue LEDs with high quantum efficiency and significantly reduced polarization-related internal electric fields have been successfully fabricated on freestanding semipolar substrates by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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