A team of Cornell researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering will use a DARPA grant to advance aluminum nitride as an ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor material, including Leo Schowalter, CTO of Lit Thinking and a visiting professor; Debdeep Jena, the David E. Burr Professor in electrical and computer engineering; Huili Grace Xing, the William L. Quackenbush Professor in electrical and computer engineering; Hari Nair, assistant research professor; and Michael Thompson, the Dwight C. Baum Professor.