Columbia Engineering Wins $3M ARPA-E Grant to Raise Efficiency, Lower Cost of Power Grid
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 16:11
in Physics & Chemistry
A Columbia Engineering team has won a $3 million ARPA-E grant for research targeted at developing next-generation power conversion devices to transform how power is controlled and converted throughout the grid. The researchers are developing a new method to fabricate vertical gallium nitride devices in a low-cost matter compatible with traditional silicon semiconductor manufacturing.