The University of Illinois has been selected to receive $3.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). This funding is part of ARPA-E’s ULTRAFAST program, which aims to improve control and protection of the domestic power grid through chip-focused innovations.
ECE associate professor Can Bayram leads a $3 million dollar project headed by the University of Illinois and is co-PI on another project led by Great Lakes Crystal Technologies to develop optically-triggered diamond semiconductor switching devices. ECE associate professor Shaloo Rakheja is co-PI on a project led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, partnering with the University of Illinois, Stanford and UC-Berkeley to build a high-power diamond optoelectronic device.
Read the article from UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, The Grainger College of Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering here.
