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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. Georgia Tech Research Corporation, EDISON – Efficient DC Interrupter with Surge Protection – $3,000,000.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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exceeding the magnetic properties of industrially important. magnetic properties of current state-of-the-art rare earth magnets, which are essential to the emerging energy. industries, without the need for these costly and scarce. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: Novel Tuning of Critical. storage material.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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If successful, the project team will drastically reduce the power consumption of a digital integrated circuit while also enabling a much smaller form factor and lower cost solution. Georgia Institute of Technology. Grid-Connected Modular Soft-Switching Solid State Transformers. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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MING-KAI TSAI MediaTek Hsinchu, Taiwan “For vision and leadership in the global semiconductor industry, democratizing technology access for billions of people.” BOWERS University of California, Santa Barbara “For contributions to photonic integrated circuit technologies.” IEEE ROBERT N. NOYCE MEDAL Sponsor: Intel Corp. IEEE DENNIS J.

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