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John Bowers
Director, IEE
bowers@iee.ucsb.edu
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6 Solution Groups
Lighting
Lighting consumes 22% of all US electricity.
Widespread adoption of LED lighting can reduce lighting energy use by
46% by 2030.
Lighting
Accomplishments:
Shuji Nakamura received 2014 Nobel Prize for inventing the blue LED
Developed laser diode lighting: more efficient than LED lighting for high
brightness applications
(e.g. streetlamps, car headlights)
Head:
Steve DenBaars
denbaars@engineering.ucsb.edu
Developed GaN technology that can eliminate over 50% of the losses
sustained during power conversion
Being commercialized by startup Transphorm
Umesh Mishra
mishra@ece.ucsb.edu
Head:
John Bowers
bowers@ece.ucsb.edu
DFB/EAM/PD Array
John Bowers
bowers@ece.ucsb.edu
Science & Engineering for an Efficient Energy Future
Buildings
Buildings consume 72% of all US electricity.
Existing building control systems are manually operated and produce too
many data points for an operator to effectively manage.
Buildings
Accomplishment:
Head:
Igor Mezic
mezic@engineering.ucsb.edu
Computing
Data centers consume 1.5% of global energy.
Data is predicted to increase 1000x by 2025, but computing efficiency is
only expected to increase by 25x.
Computing
Accomplishments:
Developed memory system designs that extend the lifetime of highefficiency resistive memory devices by 490%
Using resistive memory will reduce data center energy use by 15-25%
Head:
Fred Chong
chong@cs.ucsb.edu
Head:
Gui Bazan
bazan@chem.ucsb.edu
Head:
Sangwon Suh
suh@bren.ucsb.edu
and more
Contact:
Jen McJannet
jen@iee.ucsb.edu
John Bowers
bowers@iee.ucsb.edu
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