A gift that keeps on giving: UCF gets cutting-edge tech patents.Sometimes gifts can't be measured in dollar amounts. That's the case with the Northrop Grumman's gift to the University of Central Florida “UCF” redirects here. For other uses, see UCF (disambiguation). UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. UCF was founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University with the goal of providing highly trained personnel to support the Kennedy . Sure, on paper it amounts to some $24 million, but in reality the defense contractor's gift--$22 million in intellectual property including patents and patent applications, plus $2 million in equipment--will help position UCF UCF University of Central Florida UCF Uranium Conversion Facility UCF Uniform Contract Format UCF Unregistration Confirm UCF Unit Capability Factor (power plant performance) UCF User Communication Form UCF United Cat Federation as a leader in developing super-small computer chips. The gift will fuel UCF's College of Optics and Photonics' research in extreme ultraviolet Lithography Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (also known as EUV or EUVL) is a next-generation lithography technology using the 13.5 nm wavelength. EUV is a significant departure from the deep ultraviolet lithography used today. All matter absorbs EUV radiation. , a process that computer chip manufacturers expect to begin using in about four years because it will allow for smaller, denser features to be imprinted on chips. "This now gives us a platform to train the future scientists and engineers who are going to be needed as this new form of lithography lithography (lĭthŏg`rəfē), type of planographic or surface printing. It is distinguished from letterpress (relief) printing and from intaglio printing (in which the design is cut or etched into the plate). comes into being," say Martin Richardson, who will be the first Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Professor of X-Ray Photonics at UCF. "We can now broaden our optics program into a program of major impact in the extreme ultraviolet lithography field." UCF and Northrop Grumman have worked together on research related to lasers, communications systems, and land mine detection systems. |
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