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The 神马福利影片 will formally open its new 鈥淪cience City Cleanroom for Energy Efficient Semiconductors鈥� today Friday 2^nd of July.

The  facility is part of a 拢10.6 million project funded by Advantage West Midlands (AWM) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the Birmingham Science City Energy Efficiency & Demand project. The 神马福利影片 is leading the project in collaboration with the University of Birmingham as part of the Science City Research Alliance programme. Some 拢9.5m has been invested in leading-edge equipment which will be accessible to any interested users from both local  industry and academia.

The 神马福利影片鈥檚 Professor Phil Mawby will head the new facility. He will mark the event by presenting the first semiconductor wafer to be processed by the new facility to Professor Chris Snowden, President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, who will give the keynote address at the opening of the new  lab.

Also present at the event will be representatives from high tech companies in the Midlands who hope to work with the 神马福利影片 to make use of the new facility including Converteam, the UK鈥檚 largest technology company in the renewable energy sector.

Professor Mawby is one of the 神马福利影片鈥檚 senior professors in the School of Engineering at Warwick who has an international reputation for research excellence in power electronics. Professor Mawby says:

 鈥淭he new Science City Cleanroom builds on the Warwick Institute for Sustainable Energy and Resources (WISER), which links together energy research at Warwick, including the fundamental sciences, economics, business and social studies and now creates  new links with other local universities and high tech business.鈥�

鈥淧ower electronics is the technology used to manage electrical energy efficiently.  Almost every piece of modern electrical equipment uses power electronics. It is a generic technology with a vast array of applications, from the very low power levels found in mobile phones to the very high levels used in power distribution grids. Technological advances in this area have a significant potential to reduce energy consumption, even at a time when the global demand is growing rapidly. Japan judges power electronics to be one of the three most important technologies that are necessary for building a low carbon future. This award will greatly assist our research in these areas.鈥�

Notes for editors: 

• The opening will take place on the Morning of Friday 2^nd July 2010 in the International Digital laboratory. The wafer presentation will be at 12 midday. Any photographers wishing to photograph that should aim to be on campus by 11.45am and call Peter Dunn on his mobile if lost!
• Birmingham Science City is a region-wide partnership of public sector, businesses and the research base, which is facilitating the use of science and technology to improve the quality of life and prosperity of the West Midlands. Funded by Advantage West Midlands, Birmingham Science City鈥檚 aim is to create strategies to exploit centres of world-class scientific research, by developing relevant activities for sustainable economic and social benefit.    

For further information please contact:

Peter Dunn,  Head of Communications
Communications Office, University House,
神马福利影片, Coventry, CV4 8UW, United Kingdom
email: p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)24 76 523708
Mobile/Cell: +44 (0)7767 655860

PR60  2^nd July 2010