Cirrus Logic produces high precision analog and mixed signal semiconductors for use in smart phones and smart grid components.

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They also stressed the need for standardization of the smart grid components, to avoid a patchwork of technologies across the country.

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The primary emissions reductions over the next four years will come from installing more natural gas to replace coal, implementing the higher CAFE standards, rolling out more fully electric cars and beginning to install smart grid components.

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"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

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Whereas tablet PCs are full-blown PCs that contain all their components inside the casing of a notebook-sized flat-screen display, smart displays are light, portable display screens that connect wirelessly to a PC, so a user can interact with the PC away from the desk for reading documents or surfing the Web.

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