UCSB lab gets $15M from Dow Chemical Co.
UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory has received up to $15 million from Dow Chemical Co. to establish a new institute to study materials that can further technological discovery. The recent five-year gift comes just weeks after the research lab received $20 million from the National Science Foundation to fund its studies through at least Read More →
Vitesse slashes work force, faces lawsuit
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Ventura group tackles energy efficiency
The Venutra County chapter of an international engineering group is organizing an energy efficiency conference that it hopes will grow to include all of the greater Los Angeles area.
Decades of success: Central Coast firms survive tough times
Two San Luis Obispo-born firms, Shopatron and ClearWater Tech, are celebrating anniversaries this fall.
Crammed computing: Tamar helps designers get more power onto chips
Tamar has invented the world’s first device that can accurately measure the thickness of a standard silicon wafer without touching it.
Amgen braces for biosimilars rules
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Transphorm gets $3.6M grant
Transphorm, the Goleta-based energy efficiency firm backed by $63 million from Google and other investors, has received a $3.6 million federal grant to improve solar panels. Transphorm’s technology uses a semiconducting material called gallium nitride to drastically reduce heat waste in electronic systems. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy went to Transphorm in Read More →
