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The 101st Kelvin Lecture, Lighting up the future – the way ahead for solid-state lighting, Professor Shuji Nakamura, Materials Department and Solid State Lighting Energy Center (SSLEC), University of California, USA, Thursday, 11 March 2010, The IET London Savoy Place

THE KELVIN LECTURE, by Professor Shuji Nakamura

EPSRC Industrial CASE Pool Competition

EPSRC’s 2010 Industrial Case Studentship Pool Competition which is run in addition to the allocations provided either directly to companies (based on collaborative spend on EPSRC grants) or through the KTNs

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/IndustrialCaseCall2010.htm

What Photonics had done for us!

‘Photonics’ is an industry that involves all aspects of light – its production, its transmission, its manipulation and its use. It has an extremely varied set of applications that covers everything from exotic long-haul telecommunications infrastructure to the laser in every CD player.
Industrial lasers are main manufacturing tools in an enormous range of industries and employed across a vast range of scale from the very large to the nano Photonics is also one of the primary “green” technologies with high efficiency LED lighting and Photovoltaic solar panels two of the main thrusts towards the low carbon economy. High bandwidth broadband communications also promises to be a major contributor to the future green economy as advanced telecoms replaces travel See Full Paper

GOVERNMENT AIMS FOR £1 BILLION VENTURE CAPITAL FUND TO INVEST IN THE BUSINESSES OF THE FUTURE

The Prime Minister has today announced the creation of the UK Innovation Investment Fund to invest in technology-based businesses with high growth potential. The new fund will focus on investing in growing small businesses, start-ups and spin-outs, in digital and life sciences, clean technology and advanced manufacturing. http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=404169&NewsAreaID=2&...

17 June 2009, Final Digital Britain Report

21 October 2008, 5th PLG Meeting, London
2 October 2008, >Latest UK lighting and displays magazine
29th September 2008, Lighting workshop,@ Islington, Business Design Centre      

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Latest BERR reports and Publications
Flat Panel Displays in the UK: a guide to UK capability 2008/09
Plastic electronics in the UK: a guide to UK capability 2008/9
Case study: electronics and photonics: Roke Manor Research
Case study: electronics and photonics. Toshiba Telecommunications Research Laboratory
The electronics leadership council. Shaping the future of UK electronics: report 2007