Oct 8 2010
Researchers at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering are developing specific sensing devices that have the potentiality to lay out the topography of the ocean floor and to trace out the resources such as the mineral repositories and natural gas. The $3 million contract is being carried out by CNSE for the Naval Warfare Systems Command and U.S. Space.
The development of the sensors is executed at the Canandaigua-based Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center at CNSE and at University of Albany’s CNSE facility. The center merged with CNSE recently and focuses on marketing the innovative technologies that are being developed in Albany. The collaboration is thought to enhance the financial status of the upstate.
Alain Kaloyeros, senior vice president and chief executive officer at CNSE stated that the sensing devices will be deployed for military purposes and the technology will be marketed and authorized by the companies for commercializing. Kaloyeros added that apart from its mapping functionality, the device will also be employed in the succeeding generation position systems for investigating the satellites and numerous other vehicles.
Paul Tolley, Canandaigua center’s executive director and vice president for disruptive technologies at CNSE explained that this is their initial project of this kind and numerous other sensors will be devised in the course of time and that the novel advanced devices will be structured within about three to five years.
The advanced sensors will be in the nano-scale size range and will be weight-less meeting the nanotechnology standard.
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