Biomemetics

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ONR Research Programs
A Program Officers Perspective http//www.onr.na
vy.mil
Dr. Clifford Lau Office of Naval
Research 703-696-0431 lauc_at_onr.navy.mil July 10,
2002
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Scientific Disciplines
ONR/DoD Basic Research is organized into the
following 12 technical disciplines

• Mechanics
• Terrestrial sciences
• Ocean sciences
• Atmospheric and space sciences
• Biological sciences
• Cognitive and neural sciences

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Computer sciences
• Electronics
• Material sciences

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Funding by Technical Area
FY2002 6.1 Basic Reserch 400M
Physics, 8
Cognitive Neural Sci., 6
Chemistry, 7
Biological Sciences 13
Mathematics, 5
Atm. Space Sci., 5
Computer Sciences, 8
Ocean Sci. 10
Electronics, 16
Terrestrial Sci., 2
Mechanics, 10
Material Sciences, 11
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ONR Research Interests

• Best way to find out about Navy research programs
  is through the website,
• http//www.onr.navy.mil
• Informal contact with responsible program manager
  is encouraged before submitting proposal
• Proposal evalution process varies according to
  program

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Broad Agency Announcements

• Long range basic research
• Covers broad-based basic research of interest to
  the Navy, called Core Program
• Special Programs
• MURI, DEPSCoR, DURIP, YIP, etc.

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DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
PROGRAM (DURIP)

• To provide research equipment to universities to
  improve ability to conduct research and educate
  scientists and engineers in areas important to
  DoD
• 50,000 ? requested funding ? 1,000,000
• U.S. Institutions of Higher Education with degree
  granting programs in science, math, or
  engineering
• Doesnt fund purely instructional equipment,
  construction of buildings or facilities
  modification

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DURIP

• Research areas of interest
• Listed on ONR website
• Other areas important to national defense
• Evaluation criteria
• Impact on DoD-relevant research
• Scientific/technical merit and
  relevance/contribution to DoD
• Impact on research related education
• Qualifications of institution
• Qualifications of Principal Investigator
• Realism and reasonableness of cost
• Proposals distributed to Divisions for review

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DEFENSE EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM TO STIMULATE
COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR)

• Responds to Congressional mandate to broaden
  the geographical distribution of federal funding
  of academic RD
• Aimed at building research infrastructure of
  universities in eligible states
• Eligibility (1) low DoD funding for research in
  S, E M and
• (2) have NSF state EPSCoR committee
• Currently, 18 states, Puerto Rico and Virgin
  Islands are eligible
• Solicitation is made through state EPSCoR
  committees

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YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM (YIP)

• To attract outstanding new faculty researchers to
  naval-relevant
• research and to encourage their research and
  teaching careers
• Eligibility
• U.S. citizens/nationals or permanent residents
• No more than 5 years since receiving Ph.D.
• Hold tenure-track or permanent faculty position
  at U.S. Institution of Higher Education (IHE)

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YIP

• Research grants of 100K/year for three years
• Additional money available first year for
  equipment
• ONR 363 provides 1-for-1 match for first
  25K/year of additional Navy research support
  given to YI for collaborative research with Navy
  Laboratory
• Proposals can address any naval-relevant area
• Announcement issued annually to solicit
  proposals
• Proposals submitted directly to cognizant
  Division

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YIP

• Evaluation Criteria
• Past performance significance and impact of
  previous research,
• publications, professional activities, etc.
• Proposals potential for making progress in an
  important,
• naval-relevant scientific area
• University commitment

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SUMMER FACULTY RESEARCH PROGRAM

• To involve university faculty in naval RD
  and provide Navy laboratories with new or
  expanded research capabilities
• Faculty participate in research at Navy labs for
  10 weeks
• during summer
• Repeat participants can bring along graduate
  students

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SUMMER FACULTY RESEARCH PROGRAM

• Administered and publicized by American Society
  for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Limited to U.S. citizens, possibly permanent
  residents
• Navy Labs select participants and provide funds
  to pay (for non-HBCU/MI participants) stipends,
  travel, and relocation allowances
• Selections based on research interests and
  capabilities as well as available funding

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SUMMER FACULTY RESEARCH PROGRAM

• FY02 stipends
• 13,500 Summer Faculty Fellow
• 16,000 Senior Summer Faculty Fellow
• 18,500 Distinguished Summer Faculty Fellow
• ASEE assembles panel to determine level of
  appointment to be offered
• Comparison of stipend to participants university
  salary found reasonable match

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NEW INITIATIVE

• HBCU/MI faculty participants can submit research
  proposal for joint review by host Navy laboratory
  and ONR
• Proposed research program must include
  undergraduate students, who can receive
  scholarship support
• Undergraduate and graduate students involved in
  research are to participate in summer research at
  Navy labs
• Program to be fully funded by ONR

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SABBATICAL LEAVE RESEARCH PROGRAM

• Faculty participate in research at Navy labs
  during sabbatical (one semester to one year)
• Faculty develop a detailed research plan,
  generally based on discussions with proposed host
  lab
• Selections by labs based on research interests
  and capabilities as well as available funding
• ASEE review of research plan

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

• To introduce promising new scientists and
  engineers to Navy RD and to provide Navy
  laboratories with additional resources
• Postdocs apply and compete for appointments to
  Navy labs
• U.S. citizens and permanent residents who earned
  Ph.D. within seven years from time of
  application
• Postdocs develop research proposal in
  coordination with
• laboratories (27 possible sites)
• Selections based on quality and relevance of
  research, lab recommendations (available
  funding), academic qualifications, and
  references
• Labs fully fund

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Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
(MURI) program

• The MURI program supports university teams whose
  research efforts intersect more than one
  traditional science and engineering discipline.
  Goal is to
• Provide sufficiently large funding to make an
  impact on areas of research that are critically
  important to DoD
• Speed up scientific progress by
  cross-fertilization of ideas
• Hasten the transition of basic research to
  practical applications
• Train students in cross-disciplinary approaches
  to science and engineering research of importance
  to DoD

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MURI

• Average award size of 1M/year per topic
• Three year basic award two year option
• Often multi-university teams
• Industry and DoD labs can and often do
  collaborate but cannot receive MURI funds.
• FY02 total MURI budget, 135M (47M managed by
  ONR)
• Topics to have the potential for major
  breakthrough
• Topics to have multi-Service applicability

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MURI

• Evaluation criteria
• Primary
• 1. Scientific and technical merit
• 2. DoD relevance and impact
• 3. Impact on research capability and student
  education
• Other
• 4. Qualifications of principal personnel
• 5. Adequacy of current or planned facilities
• 6. Impact of interactions with other
  organizations
• 7. Realism reasonableness of cost

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On-going MURI Projects
Number of MURI grants

• FY96-01 34
• FY97-02 15
• FY98-03 17
• FY99-04 19
• FY00-05 20
• FY01-06 481620
• FY02-07 26
• Total 215
• includes regular MURI, DURINT, and CIP/SW

http//www.acq.osd.mil/ddre/research/muri/muri.htm
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MURI support for Micro and Nano
Many MURI projects are in support of
microelectronics and nanotechnology FY97-02 Quasi
-optic Power Combining Clemson U. Prof.
Pearson FY97-02 Photonics for RF
Systems UCLA Prof. Ming Wu FY97-02 Photonic RF
Phase Arrays U.Colorado Prof.
Wagner FY98-03 Engineered Nanostructures Princet
on U. Prof. Sturm FY98-03 Micro-thermal
Engines MIT Prof. Epstein FY98-03 Adaptive
Optoelectronic Eye USC Prof.
Tanguay FY98-03 Optimization of Nanodevices U.
Minnesota Prof. James FY99-04 Spin
Semiconductors Purdue Univ. Prof.
Datta FY99-04 Nanolithography U. New
Mexico Prof. Brueck FY99-04 Widebandgap Semicond.
Dev. Cornell U. Prof. Eastman FY99-04 WBG
Semiconductor Devices UCSD Prof.
Asbeck FY00-05 Quantum Computing/Memory MIT Pro
f. Shapiro FY00-05 Quantum Computing/Memory Calt
ech Prof. Mabuchi FY01-06 3-D Nanoarchitectures
UCLA Prof. Dunn FY01-06 Nano-engineered
Coatings U. Virginia Prof. Taylor FY02-07 Molecu
lar Design of Multifunctional Designer Mat. VA
Poly Tech St.U. Prof. Long FY02-07 Integrated
Nanosensors UCSD Prof. Schuller FY02-07 Integra
ted Nanosensors CMU Prof. Lambeth
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Nanoimprint Lithography Princeton University,
Professor Stephen Chou
Imprint mold with 10nm diameter pillars
10nm diameter holes imprinted in PMMA
10nm diameter metal dots fabricated by
nano- imprint lithography
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Next Generation, 4-D Distributed Modeling and
VisualizationProf. Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley
emailavz_at_eecs.berkeley.edu Web URL
http//www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu/vismuri/murinde
x.html
Date 31 Oct.2001
MURI, year started 2000
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Center for Research on Infrared Detectors
(CENTROID)University of Michigan Ann Arbor,
Prof. Bhattacharya
MURI, year started 2001
Dec 2001
Objectives

• To understand the formation of defects that
  reduce carrier lifetimes in MCT and minimize
  their presence
• To understand size fluctuation in self-assembled
  quantum dots and their effects on the electronic
  spectrum
• To reduce or eliminate the QD wetting layer for
  increased heterostructure control, and to
  experimentally verify increased carrier capture
  and relaxation times in QDs
• To design, fabricate, and characterize IR
  detectors with large responsivities, high
  operating temperatures, and multispectral
  response for incorporation into detector arrays

XSTM image of vertically coupled layer InAs/GaAs
quantum dots
Approach
Accomplishments

• Collaborative, multidisciplinary effort among
  groups from Ariaona State University, Harvard,
  UCLA, University Illinois - Chicago, and
  University Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Advanced status of modeling MCT pseudo
  dielectric functions during growth, including
  bulk semiconductor and surface reactive layer
  dielectric functions, and began construction of a
  temperature and composition dependent library of
  MCT dielectric functions
• Completed assembly of recombination lifetime
  measurement system for MCT
• Explained why certain dot sizes and shapes are
  obtained in self-assembly, and understood the
  distribution of dot sizes, as well as
  inhomogeneous broadening of the optical spectra
• Demonstrated the highest operating temperature
  and the highest specific detectivity for a
  vertical QDIP under normal incidence
  illumination, and initiated fabrication of
  third-generation vertical QDIPs with 20- and
  30-layer QD active region for increased
  responsivity

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Effects of Microwave Pulses on Electronics
MURIUniversity of Maryland, Prof. Victor
GranatseinWeb URL _http//www.ireap.umd.edu(Sub
contract to Boise State University)
Started 1 May 01
October 2001

• MURI Objectives
• Basic study of physical mechanisms whereby HPM
  pulses upset or damage modern integrated circuits
• Develop models and methodology enabling HPM
  resistant component, circuit and system design

Scientific/technical approaches Fabricate ICs
with built-in diagnostics Develop on-chip sense
protect circuit Study potential of chaotic EM
waves to produce upset at relatively low
power Determine dependence of upset and
damage on RF frequency modulation

• Accomplishments
• Successful preliminary attempt to fabricate
  on-chip
  Schottky diode
• On-chip sense and protect circuit designed and
  is being fabricated
• Corruption of computer SDRAM found to have
  complex dependence on RF frequency
• Initiated study of EM delay times for complex
  enclosures using random matrix theory
• HDL modeling of bootable microprocessor

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Carbon Nanotube Based Materials and
DevicesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel
HillURL http//www.physics.unc.edu/zhou/muri
Year started 1998
Multidisciplinary Approach
Objectives

• To understand and control the materials
  chemistry and physics
• of nanotubes and nanotube-based materials
• To develop new nano-composites with enhanced
  mechanical,
• thermal and electrical properties
• To fabricate nanotube-based electron field
  emission devices and
• evaluate their properties for technological
  applications
• To investigate energy-storage capability of
  carbon nanotubes
• To fabricate nanotube NanoElectroMechanical
  Systems (NEMS).

• Materials synthesis, assembly, functionalization
  
• Nanometer-scale manipulation and measurements of
  transport,
• electronic and mechanical properties
• Spectroscopic characterization and studies
• Large-scale ab inito and empirical molecular
  dynamics simulation and theoretical calculations.

MURI Team
UNC Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and
Computer Science NCSU Physics and Materials
Science Duke Chemistry Industrial Partners
Lucent Technologies, Raychem Co. and Ise
Electronics
DOD Relevance
New materials and technology for structural
reinforcement, energy storage, electron
emission, and nano-device applications.
Major Accomplishments
Research Highlights

• Established materials synthesis and processing
  capability
• First observation of rolling at nanometer scale,
  including manipulation and simulation of NEMS
  friction
• Measured and simulated the electro-mechanical
  properties of
• carbon nanotubes
• Synthesized nanotube-based polymer composites
• Fabricated nanotube field emission devices and
  demonstrated
• high current capability (4A/cm2)
• Performed the first 13C NMR measurement of the
  electronic
• properties of the carbon nanotubes.
• Demonstrated high Li storage capacity in
  processed SWNTs.

Rolling and Friction at the atomic scale
Carbon nanotube field emitters provide high
current density and stability
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An Environmentally Compliant, Multi-Functional
Coating for Aerospace Using Molecular and
Nano-Engineering MethodsUniversity of Virginia,
Prof. Shelton Taylor
MURI-01
10/15/01
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Synthesis, Purification, and Assembly of SWNT
Carbon Fibers Prof. Richard Smalley, Rice
University
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Nano-Systems EnergeticsUniversity of Minnesota,
Prof. Michael Zacharia http//www.me.umn.edu/mrz/
CNER.htm
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F A Q s

• How do I know what ONR research interest?
• Should I contact the program managers first?
• Should I send informal white papers?
• What should be in the proposal?
• How will the proposals be evaluated?
• What are my chances of getting funding?
• Once I get a research grant, what do I have to
  do?