Hardware & Instrumentation
Yahoo Finance—Ayar Labs, a semiconductor startup based in San Jose and spun out of CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, has raised $155 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its optical I/O technology.
PR Newswire—Sionic Energy, a CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ spinout and a recognized leader in electrolyte and silicon battery technology for next-generation lithium-ion batteries, announced that the world's lithium-ion battery producers no longer have to rely on graphite. Designed for seamless integration into existing lithium-ion battery manufacturing processes, Sionic's Silicon Battery Platform maximizes silicon material performance with regard to energy density, extended cycle life, and rapid charge rates.
The Register—Ayar Labs, a CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ spinout, contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat of increasing AI model demands. Many photonics startups are looking to overcome the limitations of copper interconnects and improve the efficiency of optical I/O, but Ayar is among the first.
Fourteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.25 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC).
Daily Camera—Research funding at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has more than doubled in the last decade, increasing by about $391 million. There were 35 CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-affiliated startup companies this last fiscal year compared to 10 the year before.
Photonics Online—A new variant of liquid crystal is at the core of CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ startup Polaris Electro-Opstics' technology. Designed as a seamless drop-in enhancer of silicon photonic chips, Polaris's modulator technology paves the way for the next generation of optical interconnects critical to the future of data center disaggregation.
The Colorado Sun—Thornton-based Solid Power, a CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ spinout, has a $50 million federal grant to ramp up development of the solid-state EV batteries it considers the technology of the near-future in automobiles, putting the company closer to its goal of developing a mass production facility in the eastern U.S. or Korea.
CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Today—An international team of researchers led by an engineer at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has revealed the underlying mechanism behind battery degradation. Their discovery could help scientists to develop better batteries.