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12 Electronics Division
12 Electronics Division
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The division's aim is to discover and enhance electronic and photonic interactions and functions in new devices and a broad range of materials. Some of the outstanding achievements encompass inorganic materials such as intercalated graphite for inductors; low-energy, high-speed optoelectronics; and optical control of ion transport in single living cells.
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In the long term, the articulated strategy will lead to integrated bionic electronics modules capable of performing complex tasks. Significant Accomplishments Over the current review period, Biotronics Program funding has led to 47 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals.
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ELECTRONIC SENSING PROGRAM The vision of the Electronic Sensing Program is to discover and devise new electronic sensing concepts through advances in the fields of electronics, photonics, and piezotronics to enhance detection capabilities that can enable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance dominance at remote, warfighter, and mobile platform levels. This program's research strategy is to address the following three key scientific questions: (1)
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The sensors area has benefited from a history of PMs who have selected programs that have a demonstrable progression from a well-founded scientific thesis regarding advanced materials synthesis to the successful demonstration of novel device designs with improved performance. Notable examples of foundational scientific advances include results from the MURI on the Fundamental Study of Defects and Their Reduction in Type II Superlattice Materials.
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programs. Level of Effort The Electronic Sensing Program leveraged ARO's core average funding of about $2.0 million per year by attracting external partner support and raising the overall average total to about $4.5 million per year; this funding supported an average of 41 students and 20 postdoctoral researchers, and produced about 53 publications annually during the FY 2017 to FY 2019 period.
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using advanced fabrication approaches include increasing modulation speed, output power, and temperature range; decreasing size (micro- and nano-cavities) and phase noise; finding limits of quantum noise; exploiting 2D and 3D quantum structures in different wavelength ranges, from ultraviolet to far infrared; increasing switching speed and power efficiency, especially for different temperature ranges; and improving the integrity of light propagation in free-space.
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SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS AND ELECTROMAGNETICS PROGRAM The vision of the Solid-State Electronics and Electromagnetics Program is to exploit unique physical phenomena in emerging quantum materials and their heterostructures to create novel electronic capabilities in information processing, communications, radar, and electronic warfare to maintain information superiority and spectral dominance for the Army. This program's research strategy is to address the following four key scientific questions: (1)
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at the University of Pennsylvania on THz studies of multifold fermions and magnetic Weyl semimetals, and an STTR. The spin-momentum locking initiative is supporting a DURIP and three MURIs, and the efficient THz generation and detection program is supporting several internationally recognized efforts.
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Research at UCLA on high spin-orbit torques in magnetic topological insulator structures is of interest to Intel for spintronic devices. Level of Effort The Solid-State Electronics and Electromagnetics Program leveraged ARO's core average funding of about $2.8 million per year by attracting external partner support and raising the overall average total to about $9.9 million per year; this funding supported an average of 62 students and 23 postdoctoral researchers, and produced about 59 publications annually during the FY 2017 to FY 2019 period.
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Recommendation 5: The Engineering Sciences Directorate (ESD) Electronics Division should expand on new research directions and high-risk, high-reward projects that could lead to discovery and inventions of greater scientific significance.
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