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Seven projects selected for DARPA’s Rads to Watts
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected seven teams for its Rads to Watts program, setting off a competition to design radiovoltaic cells capable of providing power in extreme environments such as deep sea and space.
The teams are now working on developing a unit cell, simple demonstrations that their design ideas work. These are expected to be low power but capable of being scaled up into a higher-power array.
John R. Lamarsh
Congressman Michael McCor
James F. Schumar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology First CategoryUniversity of Texas-Austin Second Category
John R. Gilleland
Trinity (New Mexico)
Robert Burke Campbell
Robert W. Conn & Gerald L. Kulcinski (team award)
William S. Lyon, Jr.
Andre Giraud
Cyril Comar (posthumous)
GraduateUniversity of TennesseeD. H. Cook, R. W. Hobbs, Davis A. ReedUndergraduateUniversity of IllinoisMichael Childerson, James Durham, John Peters, Patricia Garner, Bradley Radl, Edward Rowley, Gary Taylor, Deborah WojtowiczHonorable Mention - GraduateOhio State UniversityMichael R. Savage, L. M. Gundy, Elliot R. KennelHonorable Mention - UndergraduatePurdue UniversityPatrick O'Leary, Joan Beach, Patricia Steinhauer
David Okrent
William S. Lee
