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John Benson
John Benson
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Light & Power, Ongoing Revolution

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Many of my papers start with a chemists identifying a material that performs a particular function much more effectively than the incumbent material. For instance, I spent much my career working in an area widely known as Silicon Valley. While silicon is well-entrenched as the best material for low-power, high-speed, microelectronic computing applications, two new materials have been displacing it in medium-to-high-power and lighting applications for a couple of decades, and this revolution continues.