LOS ANGELES – 28 April 2016:
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the
University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering have teamed up to establish a new home for advanced research in optical materials and nanophotonic devices.
The new organization – the
Northrop Grumman Institute of Nanophotonics and Nanomaterials (NG-ION2) – will be based on the
USC campus in Los Angeles. It will bring together research teams from the university and the aerospace industry to explore the properties of tiny structures and materials that exist only at the atomic level.
Nanophotonics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. A sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick.
“The collaboration between
USC Viterbi and
Northrop Grummanhas a long, productive and impactful history,” said
USC ViterbiDean Yannis C. Yortsos. “
NG-ION2 will enhance our common ties and contribute significantly to the advancement of photonics, an area of historical strength at
USC, and of critical importance to technological evolution.