About American Strategic Technologies

American Strategic Technologies (AST) is a research group led by Dr. Chester Wilson that is part of the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. Dr. Wilson's team is made up of a dozen talented researchers and is the largest research team in the nation to be made up exclusively of American nationals. AST specializes in the following areas:

• micro/nano radiation detectors and neutron sources
• microplasma based gas spectroscopy devices
• micro-exothermic metal casting technologies
• miniaturized biomedical optical sources, micro-electronegative gas absorption
• water impurity detectors.