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BY OPTIMIZING CONDITIONS, CONVENTIONAL ELECTRON BEAM BY OPTIMIZING CONDITIONS, CONVENTIONAL ELECTRON BEAM RESISTS, SUCH AS PBS, CAN BE USED TO PRODUCE GEOMETRIES IN THE 0.3 TO 0.5 MICRON RANGE IN A CONTROLLED MANNER, USING RASTER SCAN WRITING TECHNIQUES IN A LIMITED PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. IN ORDER FOR THESE PATTERNING TECHNIQUES TO BE USEFUL, THE DEFECT DENSITY OF THE FINAL PRODUCT MUST BE VERY T ...

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INTENSE, FINELY-FOCUSSED ION BEAMS WOULD FIND MANY APPLICATIONS IN RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION IF SUFFICIENTLY BRIGHT ION SOURCES COULD BE MADE. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF A CONCEPT FOR AN EXTREMELY BRIGHT ION SOURCE WHEREIN AN INTENSE SUPERSONIC MOLECULAR BEAM IS IONIZED AND IONS ARE CAREFULLY EXTRACTED FROM A SYNTHETIC PLASMA. THE TOPICS TO BE INVESTIGATED ARE TH ...

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FOR THE CLASS OF DNA NUCLEAR WEAPONS EFFECTS SIMULATOR KNOWN AS THE PLASMA RADIATING SOURCE (PRS), HIGH RESOLUTION X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY DIAGNOSTIC MEASUREMENTS PROVIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION BOTH FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TEST-OBJECT RADIATION ENVIRONMENT AND FOR OPTIMIZATION OF THE SOURCE. PRESENT PRS HIGH RESOLUTION X-RAY SPECTROMETERS RECORD DATA ON PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM, THE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS ...

COMMERCIAL SAPPHIRE SURFACES CONTAIN BURIED DAMAGE WHICH HAS A DELETERIOUS INFLUENCE ON SOS LAYERS GROWN THEREON. THE DEFECTS IN THE SILICON LAYERS RESULT IN A REDUCED YIELD OF DEVICES AND PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS. MUCH OF THE DAMAGE IN THE SAPPHIRE SURFACE IS PRODUCED BY THE POLISHING STEP, WHICH EMPLOYS AN ABRASIVE PAD IN CONTACT WITH THE SAPPHIRE SURFACE. AN IMPROVED POLISHING PROCESS HAS BEEN E ...

THE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION CAN BE IMPLEMENTED AND ENHANCED BY THE EMERGING CAPABILITIES OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROVIDING PERSONALIZATION, MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION, AND A HIGH DEGREE OF HUMAN/MACHINE INTERACTION. IF SUCCESSFUL, THIS WORK WILL LEAD TO NEW TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING LANGUAGES, TECHNIQUES WHICH WILL OVERCOME CURRE ...

WE PROPOSE A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH INTO THE FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF LIINSE2, A LITTLE-KNOWN SEMICONDUCTOR OF THE I-III-VI FAMILY. THIS MATERIAL PROMISES TO BECOME A BASIS FOR A REVOLUTIONARY SOLID STATE THERMAL NEUTRON DETECTOR. DURING PHASE I, THE TERNARY EQUILIBRIUM PHASE DIAGRAM WILL BE INVESTIGATED IN THE REGION IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING THE STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOSITION. WE WILL ALSO ELUCIDATE SOM ...

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