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  • AFOSR-funded researcher, Sir John Pendry spoke to a crowd of over 200 at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s (AFIT) Kenney Hall Auditorium Monday as part of AFIT’s regular speaker series and in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

    AFOSR Celebrates 60th Anniversary with Invited Speaker Sir John Pendry

    AFOSR-funded researcher, Sir John Pendry spoke to a crowd of over 200 at the Air Force Institute of Technology's (AFIT) Kenney Hall Auditorium Monday as part of AFIT's regular speaker series and in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Pendry is well known as a condensed matter theorist and as the Chair

  • Air Force hosts noted physicist at anniversary celebration

    On Oct. 26, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington, Va., hosted a presentation by noted physicist Dr. Robert L. Byer from Stanford University. Dr. Byer's presentation was the first of several activities planned throughout the coming year as part of AFOSR's 60th anniversary celebration. In keeping with the AFOSR's anniversary

  • Flying on the Wings of Laureates

    The United States Air Force has a lot more in common with the Nobel awards than most people realize.One of the most highly coveted and recognized awards, the Nobel Prize recognizes those who contribute significant achievements in the areas of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and the economic sciences. Beginning in

  • High-tech Scanning: AFOSR STTR Results in Unique Terahertz Parametric Oscillator

    An AFOSR-funded program at Microtech Instruments has resulted in a uniquely capable terahertz source. The Terahertz Parametric Oscillator (TPO-1500), averages up to 0.1 mW of power, but significantly, its central 1.5 THz wavelength, combined with a spectral width of 100 GHz, makes it perfectly suited to carry out terahertz imaging.At its most
  • Steven M. George a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder has been responsible for several unique breakthroughs in the field of Atomic Layer Deposition, or ALD. The ALD method allows one to control the physical and chemical properties of materials one atomic layer at a time, and depending on what materials you are depositing on a surface, you get different results—and some are incredibly unique. (Image courtesy of Steven M. George, University of Colorado, Boulder)

    Painting at the Atomic Level

    We are all familiar with what is required to paint a room: paint rollers, brushes, drop cloths, etc. But have you given thought to what is required to paint at the atomic level--a layer of "paint" that is one atom thick? That is what Steven M. George, a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, does.

  • AFOSR Awards Grants to 15 Universities for Design Challenge Program

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research announced that it will award $300,000 in grants to 15 Universities to participate in the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Design Challenge (UDC).The UDC program will run for 3 years, and in each academic year will pose a new challenge to a small team of senior engineering students formed at each

  • A Brief History of the Military Photomedicine Program

    The Greek physician Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, was responsible for a scientific or rational approach to medicine. Like all great thinkers, he was ahead of his time, categorizing illnesses and introducing medical terminology still in use today. Due to his efforts, the practice of medicine took a great leap towards its modern

  • Award-Winning Metamaterials Research to Shape Future Air Force Systems

    Air Force-funded scientist, Dr. Andrea Alù, has achieved exciting, award-winning results in the advancement of a new class of synthetic materials with military applications ranging from energy harvesting to camouflaging and improved sensing. Alù, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
  • Graduate student Huarui Sun performs sensitive measurement of interfacial thermal transport using an ultrafast laser system. (Credit: Abhishek Yadav)

    AFOSR MURI Research in Microscale Heat Transfer Promises to Benefit Military Systems

    A two-year-old Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative effort involving the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Brown University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz is making great strides in achieving a fundamental understanding of heat transfer at interfaces."We aim to
  • Confocal micrograph of an actin-filamin network. Credit: Kurt Schmoller, Technische Universtaet Muenchen (Technical University of Munich)

    New Measurement Into Biological Polymer Networks

    The development of a new measurement technology under a research project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation is probing the structure of composite and biological materials."Our results have provided some of the first microscopic insights into a sixty year old puzzle about the way polymeric
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