Strategic Research Area

• 22nd Century "NanoJet" Fighter

  To achieve dramatic, innovative enhancements in the properties and performance of structures, materials, and devices that have controllable features on the nanometer scale (i.e., tens of angstroms).
• The ability to affordably fabricate structures at the nanometer scale will enable new approaches and processes for manufacturing novel, more reliable, lower cost, higher performance and more flexible electronic, magnetic, optical, and mechanical devices.

Recognized Applications of Nanoscience

• Ultrasmall, highly parallel, computers with multi-teraflop speed
• Image information processors, e.g., extraction and recognition
• Low-power personal and autonomous communication and computation devices
• high-density information storage devices, e.g., terabit/cm2 nonvolatile memory
• Lasers and detectors for weapons and countermeasures
• Optical (infrared, visible, ultraviolet) sensors for improved surveillance an targeting
• Integrated sensor suites for chemical and biological agent detection
• Catalysts for enhancing and controlling energetic reactions
• Synthesis of new compounds (e.g., narrow-bandgap materials)
• Designer materials with combinations of properties that do not currently exist

SRA Representatives