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January 2006 Dot Metrics Awarded NSF Phase I SBIR

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to develop a novel method of fabricating deep UV LEDs which will allow for wider wavelength ranges as well as provide higher efficiencies than current UV LED technologies.

The ability to fabricate higher efficiency deep UV LEDs opens up a wide array of commercial products that would have a direct societal impact. UV LEDs can be used for disinfection applications, such as air, water, and surfaces. These applications are currently being accomplished with expensive, short lifetime UV lamps or with environmentally harmful chemicals. LEDs provide a mechanism for disinfection that does not impact the environment, as well as offering longer lifetimes, and cost advantages. Security applications are also producing a growing market for UV LEDs. Emission in the deep UV range enables the development of non-line of sight communication devices as well as biological agent detection.

Dot Metrics Wins the DARPA 2005 Award

Dot Metrics' success was recently recognized by Dr. Tether, Director of the Defense Advance Research Project Agency in the 2005 awards ceremony. The company received the Award for Small Business Innovation Research for demonstrating a new method of introducing deep-green luminescent nanostructures into semiconductor materials for light emitting diodes. "The technology achieved by Dot Metrics will directly translate into solid-state lighting devices that are more weight- and power-efficient," explained Tether. "The technology will be part of a DARPA program to install innovative lighting systems on U.S. Navy vessels."

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