Dec 24 2010
Northeastern University has been offered a $1.5 million subcontract for advancing an innovative nanotechnology-enabled electric field sensing device, which helps resolving the global issues.
Srinivas Sridhar, director of Northeaster’s Electronic Materials Research Institute (EMRI), will be guiding the advanced research and development on these condensed energy-efficient nanosensing devices in identifying minuscule electric fields across wide ranges of frequency. This three-year research scheme is financially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and will be executed under a subcontract provided by the Ohio-based SRICO, which is a leading technology firm.
The research and development office for the Department of Defense, DARPA, was looking for novel research proposals on electric field sensing technologies for the manufacture of intense detector sequences in gaining increased spatial resolution of the electric field along with high responsiveness. Sridhar commented that Northeastern and SRICO have intended a novel nanotechnology system for potential applications in healthcare and security firms. The nanosensors properly and precisely identify even minute deviations in the light ray that are produced by feeble electric fields and nanoscale research will help in regulating the architecture and performance of materials, he stated.
Sridhar remarked that the advancement of such electric field detecting sensors has dominated the use of magnetic field detectors. The EMRI researchers will use the specific materials and detector models devised by SRICO to generate electric field sensor designs having 1,000 fold more efficient than the prevailing technology, he explained.
Source: http://www.northeastern.edu