Facilities
CoSM facilities are located in several campus buildings,
primarily:
Off-campus facilities include:
- VERITAS Facility (Psychology)
The Virtual Environment Research, Interactive Technology, And Simulation (VERITAS) facility is owned and operated by Wright State University and housed in the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. The mission of the facility is to support basic and applied scientific research on sensory systems, aviation, teleconferencing, telerobotics, and virtual environments. The central component of the facility is a CAVE ®, a room-sized virtual environment presentation system controlled by a cluster of Wintel computers. High-performance projectors can display stereoscopic images on the 10' by 10' rear-projected screens that make up the four walls and the front-projected floor of the CAVE ®. Step inside the CAVE ®, put on the stereoscopic glasses and stereophonic headphones, and the high-resolution, 360° 3-D video and audio displays can put you in pilot's seat of a General Aviation aircraft, flying over a mountainous landscape or inside a protein molecule, exploring its matrix-like atomic structure.
 The Semiconductor Research Center (SRC) conducts basic research on semiconductor materials, in particular, GaN, ZnO, SiC, and GaAs. Some of the work is carried out on campus, in conjunction with the Physics Department, and some off-campus, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Research capabilities on campus consist of high-energy electron irradiation and deep level transient spectroscopy, and capabilities off campus include Hall-effect and photoluminescence measurements. The funding level is approximately $1M/yr, all of which comes from external sources, such as the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, NASA, and various industrial partners. Permanent, full-time staff presently include three professionals, at the PhD level, and three technicians. Also, various professors and students from WSU and other institutions around the world collaborate in the research. SRC scientists publish about thirty papers per year in professional journals, and organize and attend many international conferences and workshops. Recent recognition (2004) includes a highly cited paper on ZnO ("Physics Top Ten") and an interview on the Thompson ISI "Emerging Research Front" website, and two papers making the "most downloaded" list of the journal Physica Status Solidi. Further information can be obtained from Dr. David C. Look, Director, david.look@wright.edu.
Departmental Facilities:
Institutes and Centers of Excellence
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