Charlotte firm wins DARPA Award

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), announced the winners of the 2005 DARPA Awards for Excellence at DARPATech 2005, DARPA's 24th Systems and Technology Symposium, in Anaheim, Calif., in mid-August. DARPA presented the Award for Small Business Innovation Research to Dot Metrics Technologies Corp., of Charlotte for demonstrating a new method of introducing deep-green luminescent nanostructures into semiconductor materials for light emitting diodes. Dot Metrics achieved this breakthrough via a proprietary process sequence that produces a higher efficiency electroluminescent output, tunable to the deep-green portion of the visible spectrum. "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 US Navy vessels."

The full list of nominees for all award categories is available online at http://www.darpa.mil/darpatech2005/05awards.htm.