Delaware State University News August 19, 2016 DSU Awarded $215,000 DoD Instrumentation Grant The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Delaware State University a $215,000 research instrumentation grant that will enable the purchase of a Photomask Aligner (PMA). The PMA - a tool used to impose electronic designs on a base where electronic circuits are built - will be used in connection with ongoing and future research projects in the Optical Science Center for Applied Research on campus. "Photomask aligner is technology that transfers electronic circuit design to the base (called a substrate) through an opto-chemical process to fabricate electronic chips," said Dr. Mukti Rana, chair of the DSU Department of Physics and the principal investigator of the successful grant. Most immediately, according to Dr. Rana, the PMA will be used for the design and fabrication of nano-machined pyroelectric detectors with ultra-low conductance, a DSU research project that is being funded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research. He said the PMA will also be used in another NASA-related project, which involves the fabrication of uncooled infrared detectors with nanometer-sized studs. Dr. Rana's proposal was one of 176 to receive instrumentation funding from the DoD. Those meritorious proposals were selected from among 622 that were submitted for consideration. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) 404-577-5158 (fax) Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/ 7th Biennial Membership Meeting: Register here http://hbculibraries.org/2016meeting-form.html for the October 10,11 Membership Meeting in Atlanta. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta, GA 30314-4207 www.auctr.edu<http://www.auctr.edu/> We will always provide service that exceeds the customer's expectation...Because We Care!