Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently captured four R&D 100 Awards, the most the lab has won in a single year since 1987. Three out of this year's four technologies are already in commercial development.
The winning technologies are: the Carbon Explorer, developed by Jim Bishop of the Earth Sciences Division and colleagues at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and WET Labs of Oregon, to monitor ocean carbon; the High-Efficiency Multiband Semiconductor Material for Solar Cells, developed by Wladek Walukiewicz and Kin Man Yu of the Materials Sciences Division; the Laser Ultrasonic Sensor for Papermills, developed by Rick Russo and Paul Ridgway of the Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, along with colleagues at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Tech; and the Compact High-Output Coaxial-Target Neutron Generator, invented and engineered by Ka-Ngo Leung, Jani Reijonen, Frederic Gicquel, and Stephen Wilde, members of the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division and the Engineering Division.
For a press release on the winning technologies, visit www.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/archive/#1.
