Seth Bank and Emanuel Tutuc, assistant professors in electrical and computer engineering, and Carlos Hidrovo, mechanical engineering assistant professor, recently received Young Faculty Awards from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to further develop and validate their research.
To encourage the next generation of researchers working in microsystems technology DARPA provides each award recipient a grant of approximately $150,000.
Dr. Bank will apply the award to develop new semiconductor nanostructures for lasers operating in the mid-infrared portion of the optical spectrum. Dr. Tutuc will use the award to help develop semiconductor nanowire field effect transistors. Dr. Hidrovo will study high speed droplet flows for integration in microreactors and thermal management systems.
The mission of DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office is to develop breakthroughs in materials, devices, circuits, and mathematics to create components that are more advanced than today’s devices and that have the performance and functionality to enable new capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.
