{"id":1750,"date":"2016-06-28T11:35:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1750"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:19","slug":"poweramerica-receives-more-white-house-attention","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/poweramerica-receives-more-white-house-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerAmerica Receives More White House Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1751\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1751\" class=\"wp-image-1751 size-portfolio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tiny-495x400.jpg\" alt=\"VTech\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tiny-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tiny-845x684.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Virginia Tech researcher displays the high-density wall adapter for laptop computers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A feature story released by the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/06\/24\/sharpening-our-competitive-edge-national-network-manufacturing-innovation\">on its blog June 28<\/a> details how PowerAmerica and other members of the National Network of Manufacturing Institutes are sharpening the nation\u2019s competitive edge through their work.<\/p>\n<p>The blog post is a \u201csnapshot of the revolutionary technologies showing why America continues to be the most innovative, entrepreneurial country in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PowerAmerica is featured as the 8th example for its work in miniaturizing electronics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPowerAmerica in Raleigh, NC is testing the limits of portable electronics. With their new semiconductor technology, they envision shrinking your laptop charger to the size of a keyring and your power station down to the size of a refrigerator using power electronics,\u201d<\/strong> the article states.<\/p>\n<p>The photo accompanying the article features a researcher from PowerAmerica member Virginia Tech. Led by Dr. Fred Lee and Dr. Qiang Li, the team is working on a high density adapter for laptop computers that will reduce the size of the wall adapter by more than 50 percent, increasing transportability and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><u>Virginia Tech\u2019s Partnership with PowerAmerica<\/u><\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Tech team, like other academic partners of PowerAmerica, has greatly benefitted from the unique connections offered through the Institute. The university researchers are in talks with Navitas, another PowerAmerica member, to gain advice on how to best commercialize the technology for the marketplace. Another member, Transphorm, has loaned the team devices that have proven critical to their research.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the partnership with PowerAmerica, the team has been able to focus their efforts very specifically on wide bandgap technology in a way that would not be possible otherwise. This has led to widespread interest from outside companies across the United States, including Texas Instruments and ON Semiconductor, both of which have approached the Virginia Tech team to learn more about their work.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of PowerAmerica, \u201cwe\u2019re not just writing whitepapers,\u201d Dr. Qiang Li from Virginia Tech said, \u201cwe\u2019re connecting with industry and addressing real problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feature story released by the White House on its blog June 28 details how PowerAmerica and other members of the National Network of Manufacturing Institutes are sharpening the nation\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}