Josué J. López, PhD

Steel has been made essentially the same way for thousands of years, by using carbon as a chemical reductant. Today, that process is responsible for about 8% of global CO2 emissions. Boston Metal has developed a game-changing electrolysis process for making steel. In their Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) cell, an inert metallic anode is immersed in an electrolyte containing iron ore. The result is a clean, high purity liquid metal that can be sent directly to ladle metallurgy — no reheating required.

Learn more at bostonmetal.com.

Perovskites are a relatively new class of semiconductors that have emerged over the past two decades as a means to generate more electrons from incident sunlight at a lower cost compared to traditional PV modules.  Caelux has developed a proprietary formulation of the material and a manufacturing process that allows deployment in tandem with any other solar panel made of silicon.

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mmWave is critical to the future of all wireless technology, but the realization of its potential faces severe roadblocks. Weak uplink, high deployment costs, low 5G radio efficiency and soaring operating costs are all combining to thwart the promise of mmWave. Currently, 5G networks are being held back from realizing their true potential due to a critical missing component: high-performance mmWave power amplifier technology. High-performance GaN-on-Silicon (GaN-on-Si) brings a new option to the table that could make 5G millimeter wave more practical. Finwave’s award-winning 3DGaN technology improves linearity, output power and efficiency in 5G mmWave systems – while reducing costs for carriers.

Learn more at finwavesemi.com.

Today’s AI infrastructure connects hundreds of thousands of GPUs across a data center. iPronics has developed a lossless optical circuit switch that enables connectivity between processing units at the speed of light, significantly enhancing the performance of AI clusters. Their approach leverages reconfigurable silicon photonics, which offers 1000x faster reconfiguration. This translates to meaningful advantages: 10x lower latency, 3x reduced power consumption (operational expenditures), and reduced capital expenditures. The technology represents a major advancement in addressing the networking bottlenecks that currently limit AI computation at scale.

Learn more at https://ipronics.com/

Mantle helps manufacturers bring new products to life faster, cheaper, and more easily with its patented TrueShape metal 3D printing technology. TrueShape delivers precision parts that dramatically cut the time and cost of making production-grade tools, molds, and dies. Mantle tools have been used to produce over one million end-use parts for customers – a number that grows each day.

Learn more at mantle3d.com.