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Over 95% of the multilayer ceramic capacitors manufactured worldwide use base metal electrode (BME) technology and they are one of the key components in much of the modern electronics. BME capacitors have, over the last 20 years, made significant improvements in performance and reliability; making them more competitive for a wide range of applications. However, there remains significant concerns ...

The process by which weapon systems go from point of manufacture to field usage is not a simple one. Devices can be held in storage for decades before use, and they can be subjected to significant and potentially damaging environmental conditions throughout the systems lifecycle. Latent and intermittent failures occur, and it is difficult to detect these malfunctions without actively monitoring ...

ABSTRACT: IRradiance Glass, Inc. proposes a Phase I STTR program in conjunction with the University of Central Florida to demonstrate the feasibility of the design, development, and production of high numerical aperture (NA) cylindrical lenses for use in the mid- to long-wave infrared optical region by extruding chalcogenide glasses into a micro-lens shape (~2mm wide x 2 mm high x 3 mm long) with ...

Numerous applications of THz systems have been demonstrated including imaging, nondestructive inspection and security screening. A major potential application of THz systems is in the spectroscopic analysis and detection of molecules through their fundamental absorption bands. Various polar molecules exhibit characteristic absorption lines arising from pure rotational transitions in the THz freque ...

This STTR will focus on demonstrating feasible methods to integrate additive manufacturing (AM) structure, processing, and property-geometry modeling methods that will facilitate the qualification and certification of AM-fabricated 4340 steel alloy parts and enable their rapid deployment. During the Phase I feasibility demonstrations the contractor and Research Institute (RI) will define and devel ...

Despite recent advances in Ebeam additive manufacturing, the parts produces by such processes often are inferior to those produced by traditional machining methods. Due to the complexity of the process and the multiple physical phenomena that interact, it is difficult to predict and control the properties and underlying microstructure of the resulting component. In addition, the rapid and repeated ...

The Phase I research will demonstrate the feasibility of our concept for measuring vibration, waterborne, flow and flow induced noise with an affordable sensor which can be attached to a ship. The Phase I research will identify the types of sensors required to perform these noise measurements. The sensor configuration will be developed and will include key features such as how they will be connect ...

ABSTRACT: Information systems continue to progress in terms of collecting, characterizing and assessing information. While this evolution has provided unprecedented intelligence capability to the U.S. and our allies, it has also raised unique challenges in the area of information security and disclosure risks. In particular, the intelligence community (IC) currently lacks the ability to understand ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant MicroRNAs miRNAs are involved in many diverse biological processes and a single miRNA can modulate the expression of hundreds of gene targets Changes in miRNA expression could have profound biological impacts leading to a variety of human diseases To date most miRNA expression profiling studies have relied on microarrays or high throughput RNA sequencing ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Technology to deliver molecules andquot on demandandquot that bind to targets or catalyze reactions of a technologistandapos s choosing would have enormous commercial value in research manufacturing and medicine Thus this has been a andquot holy grailandquot of molecular science for a half century Even today chemical theory is inadequate to support de ...