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Diamond firm goes West

California’s Silicon Valley - and the many lucrative opportunities that lie within its borders - beckons for a forward-thinking North East firm.

Evince, based in Sedgefield, County Durham, has been chosen as one of 20 UK companies to head to San Francisco later this month to meet Silicon Valley investors, potential customers and to visit major companies.

The business, which operates out of the PETEC printable electronics centre, was chosen from 150 applicants to go on the Clean & Cool trade visit.

The mission will coincide with the annual Cleantech Forum in San Francisco which brings together 1,000 industry leaders.

In Silicon Valley, Evince will promote its groundbreaking devices based which are built on the superior electronic properties of diamond.

Its transistor-like devices will be able to control megawatts of electrical power far more effectively than is currently possible.

The devices will sit at the heart of renewable power generation systems, play an enabling role in Smart Grid transmission and distribution networks, and benefit end-use applications such as rail locomotive and industrial machine drives.

Replacing the silicon devices used today with Evince devices could generate global efficiency savings equivalent to 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year.

Dr Gareth Taylor, Evince’s chief executive officer, said: “At first glance a transistor does not look very clean-tech, however without our technology the cost of linking many sustainable energy systems to the grid remains prohibitive and a major barrier to their growth.

“Not only will users of our technology halve the cost of these interfaces but they will also get a significant efficiency improvement.“We have been getting enquiries from major manufacturers across the globe since announcing the technology in September and this mission will further enable Evince to increase its profile in what continues to be the most important international technology hotbed.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .