The Office of Research has announced the Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy research awards for April, May, and June 2006.

Listed below are awards of $50,000 and above.

Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy

Georgia Institute of Technology, Shur, Expitaxial Multifunctional Materials & Applications: Revolutionary Epitaxial, $98,208

IBM Corporation, Shur, Connection One Consortium for Telecommunication Circuits and Systems, $50,000

Johns Hopkins University , Zhang, Terahertz-Based, In-Situ and Remote, Trace Explosives Detection Technologies, $282,030

National Science Foundation, Kalyanaraman, Lu, Shur, Wang, Zhang, IGERT: Terahertz Science and Technology – A Studio-Based Approach, $758,278

National Institutes of Health, Bennett, Plopper, Focal Adhesion Kinase and Stem Cell Differentiation, $652,043

Research Foundation of SUNY, Lu, The New York Center for Advanced Interconnect Science and Technology, $82,500

S. Cohen and Associates Inc., Zhang, Low-Vapor Pressure Chemical Detection System; $399,191

TriQuint Semiconductor LP, Shur, Wide Band Gap Semiconductors for RF Applications; $63,932

United States Air Force, Lin, Electromagnetic Field Concentration for Enhanced Infrared Detection; $113,000

United States Air Force, Zhang, Development of THz Fiber Laser; $101,725

Velox Semiconductor Corporation, Shur, Connection One Consortium for Telecommunication Circuits and Systems; $50,000

Published September 13, 2006