Addressing the 21st century challenge of exploiting physics for engineering by performing proof-of-principle experiments and calculations for device and systems applications:

Non-intuitive optimal device design, through-the-wall radar and Empire Challenge, scattering from aperiodic dielectrics, electro-optic dielectric resonators for microwave receivers, nanoscale whispering gallery mode semiconductor lasers, nonequilibrium electron transport in devices, and optimal system design.