Nitres (Westlake, CA) has been awarded a $1.4 million contract by DARPA (Washington, DC) to develop ultraviolet solar-blind focal-plane arrays. The contract is procured through the Air Force Materiel Command (Hanscom AFB; Bedford, MA). Potential applications of the arrays include chemical-pollution monitoring, biological sensing systems, and the monitoring of human UV exposure from the Sun's radiation. The award is a result of Nitres' experience with gallium nitride-based UV photodetectors.
John Wallace was with Laser Focus World for nearly 25 years, retiring in late June 2022. He obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and physics at Rutgers University and a master's in optical engineering at the University of Rochester. Before becoming an editor, John worked as an engineer at RCA, Exxon, Eastman Kodak, and GCA Corporation.
