N.C. A&T Engineering Professor’s Patent May Revolutionize Defense Communication Devices
Numan Dogan, Ph.D., a professor of computer and electrical engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, was awarded U.S. Patent No. 10,985,699 titled “Differential Constructive-Wave Oscillator (DCWO).” His former student, Göker Ariyak, Ph.D., is named co-inventor.
The device was born out of an Army Research Office grant in which Dogan and Ariyak were tasked with developing rotary travelling-wave oscillators (RTWOs) operating at 94 GHz, enabling devices that can be used in powerful defense technologies. In comparison, 5G consumer devices are typically below 60 GHz in strength.