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ECE Department Weekly Newsletter October 6-10, 2003 |
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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN I am delighted to announce that Professor Seng Ho in the ECE department has been awarded a $2 million research grant on "Molecularly Engineered Materials and Devices for Ultra-High Performance Electro-Optics," from the DARPA MTO office. This is a joint four-year research project with Professor Tobin Marks and Professor Mark Ratner of the Chemistry Department. Present-generation military and civilian RF systems are severely challenged by the lack of compact, lightweight, inexpensive components capable of efficient broadband RF analog signal distribution and processing. This research will outline a focused program on developing and implementing unique, ultra-high response materials systems for very low-voltage, ultra-high-speed EO devices (modulators, switches). The unique aspect of the proposed high performance EO devices lies in the implementation of robust, intrinsically acentric organic superlattices already demonstrated to have extremely large electro-optic responses, the use of nanofabrication techniques for optimal optical and RF confinement and overlap, and the use of transparent conductor structures to reduce switching voltages to 0.5 V or less. Please join me in congratulating Professor Ho on this major collaborative, interdisciplinary research grant.
-Prith Banerjee SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS
Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
Communications and Networking Seminar TRAVEL Professor Manijeh Razeghi traveled to Ann Arbor, MI, September 29, and presented the paper, "Materials Issues for Future Mid-IR Sources and Detectors," at the Army Research Office (ARO) Workshop on Infrared Physics and Applications. Professor Bruce Wessels traveled to Air Force Wright-Patterson Base, Fairborn, OH, September 23-24, and presented a paper entitled, "Thin Film Ferroelectrics for Guided Wave Devices." OTHER NEWS GE Global Research will visit Northwestern Wednesday and Thursday, October 8 & 9. They will present an Information Session on Wednesday, October 8 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in LR5, followed by pizza and soda. They are recruiting M.S. and Ph.D. students for full-time jobs and B.S. students for internships.
Konstantinos E. Zachariadis, Fulbright Fellow and Ph.D. student with Aggelos Katsaggelos, received a graduate studies fellowship from IEEE. The title is: "IEEE Life Member Graduate Study Fellowship" It is for 1st year graduate students and carries a cash award for the 2nd and possibly the 3rd year of your graduate studies. The link for the application is: His name is listed at: |
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