FAIRBORN — Wright State University researchers are participating in a five-year contract from the Defense Department to explore a conductive material that could be used to improve performance of military radar.
Wright State has a $750,000 share of a Notre Dame University-led research contract that also includes Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University.
The material, gallium nitride, could be used to boost the power output levels of electronic devices up to terahertz frequencies, a range on the electromagnetic spectrum between microwave and infrared light frequencies, said Elliott Brown, a researcher at Wright State.
Brown, a physicist and engineer, is leading the university’s team that will measure the terahertz performance of the material.
Terahertz imaging has been used to inspect foam insulation on the space shuttle’s external tank and to test the quality of semiconductors intended for computer chips.
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