Funding
The Solid-State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) was launched in late 2013 to advance new semiconductor-based energy efficient lighting technologies through partnerships with key industry leaders. The SSLEEC provides a forum for industry members and UCSB researchers to collaborate across several disciplines—materials science, electrical engineering, chemistry, and physics to address the most challenging problems in solid state lighting.
Under the leadership of Professors Steven DenBaars, Shuji Nakamura, Umesh Mishra, and James Speck, SSLEEC has established one of the most unique and successful business models among universities and industry partners. Over the past 6 years, this group of researchers produced a key patent portfolio of 154 patents that make up 25% of the total patent pool at UCSB.
The role of the SSLEEC’s industry partners is to provide unrestricted support for the Center’s research in advancing new semiconductor-based energy efficient lighting and display technologies, participate in an annual conference hosted by the Center, evaluate patents that are developed during the period in which the industry partner maintains current status as a qualified sponsor, and to designate one sponsor employee who shall serve as a member of the SSLEEC Advisory Board.
To support UVC-LED research and combat COVID-19, please click: https://gauchoboost.ucsb.edu/project/21466
8th Annual Review 2022
Please hold the date for the 2022 SSLEEC Annual Review Board Meeting: Wedneseday, November 9, 2022 at 9am and at 5pm Pacific Time (by invitation only).
The SSLEEC Annual Review Conference is on Thursday, November 3, 2022. This meeting is in-person and also on Zoom. Location: UCSB Engineering Sciences Building (ESB) 1001 and the ESB breezeway; We will end the event with a Fajita Bar at the ESB Courtyard at 5:30pm. You can find the agenda at the bottom of this page.
Please use the links on the left to register for the conference, so that we may arrange for your participation.
Host hotel: Best Western Plus South Coast Inn, 5260 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117
Do not book through Best Western website.
Call the hotel in Goleta or email: sales [at] santa-barbara-hotel.com
Please specifiy your affiliation with the "SSLEEC Annual Review Conference" and "UCSB" for better business rates
Other options for hotels:
The Club and Guest House at UCSB
805-893-7000
stay [at] theclub.ucsb.edu
theclub.ucsb.edu
If interested in learning more about the center, send an inquiry email to: ssleec [at] engineering.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-5039.