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Department
of Defense Awards 2005 DURIP Grants to Electrical Engineering
Every year the Department of Defense (DoD) awards grants to academic institutions to support the purchase of research equipment. An extremely competitive process, the awards are part of the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), and awarding offices include the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
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Faculty receiving DURIP grants for 2005 include Gary H. Bernstein, professor of electrical engineering, who received $523,800 from the ONR for an electron beam lithography system. Bernstein joined the University in 1988. His research interests are in the areas of nanostructure fabrication, electron beam lithography, and microfluidics systems. Debdeep Jena, assistant professor of electrical engineering, received a $207,275 grant for a high-resolution X-ray diffractometer for nanoscale material characterization from the ARO. The 2005 grant is his second DRUIP award in two years. In 2004 Jena and James L. Merz, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering, received a $375,000 grant from the ONR for a molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) system for III-V nitride semiconductors. Jena joined the University in 2003. His interests include MBE growth, fabrication, and characterization of III-V nitride heterostructures and nanostructures; device applications of II-VI nanowires; and ultrafast electronic devices. |
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Merz returned to Notre Dame as a faculty member in 1994, having received a bachelor’s from the University in 1959. He also served as the vice president for graduate studies and research and dean of the Graduate School from 1996 to 2001. His research interests include semiconductor physics, materials, and devices; optical properties of solids; defects; and nanostructures.
The DURIP program is designed to improve the capabilities of U.S. universities to conduct research and educate students in areas critical to national defense. The DoD typically receives in excess of 1,000 proposals annually from university faculty working in areas such as advanced materials, electronics and electro-optics, information technology, propulsion, and remote sensing. All awards are the result of a merit competition based on the proposals submitted by the academic institutions. Therefore, each proposal must address the impact of the equipment on research, education, and the research areas important to the DoD.
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