CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The United States Army has named AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc. as a Phase III winner and finalist in the United States Army Expeditionary Technology Search (xTechSearch) 2.0. The company was awarded $120,000 and the opportunity to demonstrate its Miraj Diamond® protective coatings for Directed Energy and Electromagnetic weaponry for Future Vertical Lift Army Modernization Priorities.
Of the initial 300 competing companies, 25 were selected to present at the phase III event in Huntsville, AL at the AUSA Global Force 2019 meeting. AKHAN was among the 12 companies chosen to move on to the final phase, which includes a capstone demonstration of their technologies at the 2019 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting, scheduled for October 14-16th, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
“We are deeply honored for this recognition by the US Army,” said AKHAN Founder & CEO Adam Khan. “As we witnessed earlier this year, external interests have already identified the strategic importance of diamond technology, and ours in particular. We are grateful for the opportunity to leverage our expertise in this field to service the needs of the military and intelligence communities, especially in demonstrating robust and reliable countermeasures to future threats.”
The Expeditionary Technology Search, shortened to xTechSearch, calls on companies to demonstrate technologies that can help the Army meet its modernization challenges. The goal is to seek nontraditional innovators who can work with the Army, including through cooperative research opportunities with Army scientists, as it modernizes the force.
“It was a great experience interacting with Army and Defense professionals, detailing AKHAN’s unique solutions for their technology needs,” said Ernest Schirmann, AKHAN Senior Electrical Engineer & xTech co-presenter. “I look forward to demonstrating our work later this year.”
AKHAN’s flagship Miraj Diamond® Glass for consumer display is 6x stronger, 10x harder, and runs over 800x cooler than leading glass competitors like Gorilla Glass by coating standard commercial glass such as aluminosilicate, BK7, and Fused Silica with lab-grown nanocrystalline diamond. Diamond-based technology is capable of increasing power density as well as creating faster, lighter, and simpler devices for consumer use. For more information, please contact Christopher Fox at 847.855.8400 or email at chris@akhansemi.com.
About AKHAN
AKHAN is a technology company specializing in the fabrication and application of electronics-grade diamonds as functional semiconductors. AKHAN is headquartered in Gurnee, Illinois. Additional information about AKHAN is available on the Company's website at https://www.akhansemi.com/.
