Nanotechnologies for an Energy Efficient Future

	6:00 p.m.  Heavy hors d'oeuvres & drinks 7:00 p.m.  Presentation and Q&A 8:30 p.m.  Coffee, dessert & networking
	$30 for members, $45 for non-members $60 for event + membership

The energy-efficient future will be built through the adoption of innovative new technologies for energy-efficiency, including lighting, powered in part by sustainably generated solar electricity. Professor Bulović will discuss MIT's role in inventing these new technologies and show how scalable nanotechnologies will play a key role in their development.

The pace of adoption of new, energy-efficient lighting is surprisingly slow, even though lighting presently consumes over 20% of U.S electricity. Professor Bulović will present recent paradigm-shifting breakthroughs that can speed up this adoption.

He will then address the major technical challenges slowing the adoption of solar-generated electricity, which accounted for less than 0.5% of U.S. electricity in 2010, and then describe new types of solar cells, all recently demonstrated at MIT, that are particularly amenable to ubiquitous solar deployment.

As the co-developer of the MIT Energy Minor, the first of its kind at a major university, Professor Bulović will describe the current state of the Energy Minor, its challenges and likely payoffs.

Vladimir Bulović, Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, leads the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics laboratory, co-directs the MIT-ENI Solar Frontiers Center and co-heads the MIT Energy Studies Program.

His research interests focus on physical properties of organic and inorganic nanocrystal composite thin films and structures and development of novel nanostructured optoelectronic devices. He has authored over 120 research articles and holds over 45 U.S. patents in areas of light emitting diodes, lasers, photovoltaics, photodetectors, chemical sensors, programmable memories, and micro-electro machines, a majority of which have been licensed and utilized by both start-up and multinational companies. He is also a founder of QD Vision, Inc. of Watertown MA and Kateeva, Inc. of Menlo Park CA.