Post by williamplayer on Jan 13, 2014 14:50:22 GMT
AFOSR: COMPLEX MATERIAL AND DEVICES
The Complex Materials and Devices Department leads the discovery and development of the fundamental and integrated science that provides novel options that increase operational flexibility and performance of systems and environments of relevance to the U.S. Air Force. A key emphasis is the establishment of the foundations necessary to advance the integration or convergence of the scientific disciplines critical to maintaining technological superiority. The Department carries out its ambitious mission through leadership of an international, highly diverse, and multidisciplinary research community to find, support and fosters new scientific discoveries that will ensure future novel innovations to transform the U.S. Air Force of the future.
This Department focuses on meeting the basic research challenges by leading the discovery and development of fundamental science and engineering across three integrated research focus areas:
Complex Materials and Structures: Focus on complex materials, microsystems and structures by incorporating hierarchical design and functionality from the nanoscale through the mesoscale, ultimately leading to controlled well understood material or structural behavior capable of dynamic functionality and/or performance characteristics to enhance mission versatility.
Complex Electronics and Fundamental Quantum Processes: This includes exploration and understanding of a wide range of complex engineered materials and devices, including non-linear optical materials, optoelectronics, Metamaterials, cathodes, dielectric and magnetic materials, new classes of high temperature superconductors, quantum dots, quantum wells, and Graphene. In addition to research into underlying materials and fundamental physical processes, this area considers how they might be integrated into new classes of devices and a fundamental understanding of materials that are not amenable to conventional computational means (e.g. , using optical lattices to model high-temperature superconductors).
Full Article: www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=20370
The Complex Materials and Devices Department leads the discovery and development of the fundamental and integrated science that provides novel options that increase operational flexibility and performance of systems and environments of relevance to the U.S. Air Force. A key emphasis is the establishment of the foundations necessary to advance the integration or convergence of the scientific disciplines critical to maintaining technological superiority. The Department carries out its ambitious mission through leadership of an international, highly diverse, and multidisciplinary research community to find, support and fosters new scientific discoveries that will ensure future novel innovations to transform the U.S. Air Force of the future.
This Department focuses on meeting the basic research challenges by leading the discovery and development of fundamental science and engineering across three integrated research focus areas:
Complex Materials and Structures: Focus on complex materials, microsystems and structures by incorporating hierarchical design and functionality from the nanoscale through the mesoscale, ultimately leading to controlled well understood material or structural behavior capable of dynamic functionality and/or performance characteristics to enhance mission versatility.
Complex Electronics and Fundamental Quantum Processes: This includes exploration and understanding of a wide range of complex engineered materials and devices, including non-linear optical materials, optoelectronics, Metamaterials, cathodes, dielectric and magnetic materials, new classes of high temperature superconductors, quantum dots, quantum wells, and Graphene. In addition to research into underlying materials and fundamental physical processes, this area considers how they might be integrated into new classes of devices and a fundamental understanding of materials that are not amenable to conventional computational means (e.g. , using optical lattices to model high-temperature superconductors).
Full Article: www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=20370