Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) has granted $6.3 million for research and development of Gallium Nitride based devises operating in the Terahertz frequency range. The research will boost the efforts taken for the development of devices like imaging; both for medical and military, telecommunications and chemical agent screening. Especially the ability to generate, maintain and receive Terahertz signals would prove to be a major improvement in related fields.
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The interdisciplinary team led by Patrick Fay, Debdeep Jena and Huili (Grace) Xing includes a group of highly specialized engineers of their respective fields from Johns Hopkins University, Ohio state university and Wright state University. It is still a difficult aspect to design high power quality coherent sources for research purposes. The team has also to find out some alternate current sources which can operate upon sensing system at ordinary conditions outside laboratory utilizing the Terahertz frequency signals.
Gallium Nitride is an important engineering material which used in LASERS reading BLU-ray discs and also in other optoelectronic devices like ultra bright LEDs. The GaN devices if researched upon can open up exciting new Terahertz applications. Last year Jena and Xing had secured grants separately for their researches in purifying the water using GaN ultraviolet light sources. The research would be helpful in the present study of utilizing Terahertz frequency through GaN.
MURI is an initiative taken for finding out new possibilities in fields which holds promising opportunities in technology. Recently, Harindra Joseph S. Fernando, a Notre Dame University researcher also received a grant of $7.3 Million from the initiative. His study would mainly focus on developing weather forecasting systems in mountainous regions. This would be an important development not only in weather forecasting but also in aviation industry. All the researches though initially conducted for military purposes will ultimately leave a positive impact on civil aspects of society too.
Via: DefenseIndustryDaily
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