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PASADENA, Calif., October 27, 2009—HRL senior scientist Dr. Jeong Sun-Moon
was honored at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory today with a NASA Space Act Board
Award for participating on a team that developed a wireless technology that
has enhanced sensing capabilities.
Moon was honored with other team members, Kyung-Ah Son of JPL and Nicolas Prokopuk
of the Naval Air Warfare Center. Each team member was presented with a certificate
of recognition and shared a cash prize.
The technology, "Wireless GaN-Based Micro Chemical Sensor Nodes for Sensor
Centric Networks," was developed in 2004. The technology is a system for detecting
chemical and biological substances, and comprises a plurality of sensing units
or nodes, each of which is able to transmit information related to the sensed
substance on a specific frequency. The GaN-based sensor nodes can be used for
monitoring chemical species in harsh environments.
A US patent on this technology was issued in July 2008.
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