I/UCRC for Optical Wireless Applications

0968650宾夕法尼亚州立大学；Mohsen Kavehrad 0968651塔夫茨大学；加州大学河滨分校；光无线应用中心（COWA）将专注于开发使用白光发光器件（wled）的新设备。宾夕法尼亚州立大学（PSU），塔夫茨大学（TU）和加州大学河滨分校（UCR）正在合作建立拟议的中心，PSU作为牵头机构。该计划的主要目标是与对光学无线应用设计感兴趣的各种行业合作伙伴和国家实验室建立正式的合作伙伴关系，并讨论研究的基本问题和主题。该中心的主要研究目标是开发新一代环境友好的极宽带无线光学技术应用。pi的工作将涉及相关设备设计、光学无线通信系统（物理层）、网络、传感和成像方面的工作。该中心有潜力通过开发新的光学无线设备来提高美国制造业的盈利能力，这些设备将改善通信系统，减少能源消耗和污染。该中心将提供一系列短期课程，以更新当前劳动力的知识，并将帮助大学定制新课程，修改现有课程，以更好地为相关领域和行业需求提供指导。该中心计划，以这3所大学在少数民族教育领域的高排名为基础，推进多元化。此外，该中心将利用现有的大学资源，招募并与少数族裔和女性拥有的公司建立牢固的关系，并提供一个协作社区，在这个社区中，这些公司可以贡献专业知识，扩大网络，提高全球竞争力。

0968650 Pennsylvania State University; Mohsen Kavehrad 0968651 Tufts University; Valencia Joyner0968662 University of California-Riverside; Zhengyuan Xu The Center for Optical Wireless Applications (COWA) will focus on developing new devices using White Light Emitting Devices (WLEDs). Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Tufts University (TU) and the University of California-Riverside (UCR) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with PSU as the lead institution. The primary goals of this planning project are to initiate formal partnership with various industry partners and national laboratories that have an interest in optical wireless applications designs, and to discuss fundamental issues and topics for research. The main objective of the envisioned research projects at the proposed Center is to develop a new generation of environment-friendly extremely wideband optical wireless technology applications. The PIs' effort will involve work in relevant device designs, in optical wireless communication systems (physical layer), in networking, sensing, and in imaging.The proposed Center has the potential to improve the profitability of US manufacturing by developing new optical wireless devices that will improve communication systems, reduce energy consumption and pollution. The proposed Center will offer a series of short courses to update the knowledge of the current workforce and will help universities to tailor new course offerings and to modify existing course offerings to better provide instruction for related areas and industry needs. The Center plans to promote diversity, building on all three universities' high ranking in education of minorities. In addition, the Center will work with existing university resources to recruit and build strong relationships with minority and women-owned companies and provide a collaborative community, within which these companies can contribute expertise, expand their networks and become more globally competitive.