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Department News
AWARDS
Faculty News
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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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Bernstein
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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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Jena
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Merz
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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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