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Dr. Dan Green, a program officer for materials research in ONR's electronics group, won an award last year with ONR colleague Dr. Wally Smith for research on phase transition electronics.

"We're trying to create the device or the widget that's going to replace the transistor," Green said. "It's really about changing the mechanics that underpin a lot of the electronics technology that we use."

Green is supervising four teams of university-based principal investigators with expertise in solid state physics and semiconductors to advance the knowledge of metal-to-insulator transitions.

"Material can go from being a metal to being an insulator," he explained. "We're trying to understand how to use that property in electronic devices. If we end up with something that's like a transistor, hopefully it is going to have better properties than what is available to us with conventional approaches."

ONR's BRC program began in 2008. The organization's director of research (DOR) selects several projects annually for the award. ONR program managers propose research topics that are prioritized by department heads into a pool of approximately 30 candidates. A third of those are chosen for formal presentations before a panel consisting of the DOR, deputy DOR and division directors who advise the DOR.

Source: Office of Naval Research