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The ongoing explosion of microwave radar and communications systems calls for improvement in electronically scanned antennas (ESAs). However, current ESAs crafted from multiple individual elements are extremely expensive. Forming an antenna with integrated scanning and impedance matching elements on a single substrate using thin film technologies may decrease costs by up to two orders of magnitu ...

Operating temperatures for phosphoric acid fuel cells have been steadily increasing in the quest for higher efficiency. The temperature increase has been made possible by the use of more stable electrode catalyst and other fuel cell materials. This makes it possible to consider reforming methanol fuel internally, thereby improving efficiency and simplifying power plant design. This change eliminat ...

Techinical Abstract: A physically small, rugged, low power, light weight X-ray imaging sensor, readout, display and transmission system is proposed which will provide an effective means for X-ray screening in General Radiology, Radiology and Fluoroscopy, Angiograpgy and Cardiology for both commercial and military applications. The system will consist of a novel flat panel R-ray detector, a high ...

We propose to develop a comprehensive environment for fault monitoring and diagnostics of heterogeneous networks, utilizing Qualtech Systems' (QSI) core technologies in a suite of commercial tools presently used for modeling, maintenance and troubleshooting of hybrid systems. Unlike currently available tools, the proposed technology will not only perform efficient on-line fault isolation using ne ...

This SBIR Phase I project will investigate the use of virtual shared memory technology as a unifying software paradigm for a cluster of shared-memory multiprocessors interconnected on a local area network or on a high-speed communication fabric. The main focus of the research will be on development of compilation and runtime systems that support a notion of data locality within a global distribut ...

This proposal describes a program to enhance the development of new nanoscale semiconductor devices. The Phase I program centers around porting the Nanoelectronic Engineering Modeling (NEMO) program undertaken at Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) to desktop PCs, with the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and a graphical user interface (GUI). NEMO incorporates nonequilibrium Green's function proce ...

This proposal describes the development of a PC Windows-based CAD tool for examining nanostructure device concepts. While CAD tools are available for micron scaled devices, a CAD tool for nanostructure devices operating on conventional desktop PCs with a Microsoft Windows operating system and a graphical user interface (GUI), is new! Such a tool would vastly simplify the device conceptualization ...

ZC&H Dynamic Systems, Inc. proposes the development of an intelligent system for generating scenarios that will support strategic planning and policy analysis. The proposed system will be a tool-kit that will provide methods for modeling and reasoning about nonlinear effects in both warfare and corporate settings. Included will be tools for identifying centers of gravity, both of the user and th ...

A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP MATERIALS FOR PACKAGING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS (LCDS) USINGPLASTIC SUBSTRATES. THE PLASTIC LCD TECHNOLOGY WILL MEET THE DOD'S NEED OF DISPLAYS RANGING FROM HAND HELD TO BLACKBOARD SIZE. THE KEY TECHNOLOGY IS SELECTION OF PLASTIC SUBSTRATES AND DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW TEMPERATURE DEPOSITION METHOD FOR A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE THIN FILM ON THE ...

SUMX CORPORATION HAS DEVELOPED A NEW PHOTOELECTROCHROMIC IMAGING SYSTEM EMPLOYING A THIN FILM OF PRUSSIAN BLUE ON SINGLE CRYSTAL AND POLYCRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRODES.THE FABRICATION OF THE ELECTROCHROMIC MATERIAL INVOLVES THE ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION OF A THIN IMMOBILIZED SURFACE FILM. THESE PRUSSIAN BLUE COATINGS EXHIBIT EXCELLENT REVERSIBILITY, CYCLE STABILITY, COLOR CONTRAST BETWEEN T ...