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SixPoint Materials will create low-cost, high-quality vertical gallium nitride (GaN) substrates using a multi-phase production approach that employs both hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) technology and ammonothermal growth techniques to lower costs and maintain crystal quality. Substrates are thin wafers of semiconducting material needed for power devices. In its two-phase project, SixPoint Mate ...

Cost-effective application of advanced commercial electronics technologies in DoD space systems requires early development of radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) techniques, and use of simulations is critical to the efficiency of this process. CFDRC has developed an integrated, mixed-mode simulation approach allowing their NanoTCAD device physics simulator to interface with commercial circuit simu ...

Compact Electromagnetic Pulse Module (EMP) capable of being arranged in series-parallel planar or cylindrical arrays is needed to simulate nuclear weapon effects. High gain optically triggered photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS) based on Gallium arsenide (GaAs) with low timing jitter enables the development of planar or phased arrays of modular EMP or High Power Microwave (HPM) sources. ...

The proposed work will incorporate the newly released software into the signature analysis workflow. Extensions of the US3D flow solver will include improvements to the decoupled implicit solver to robustly and efficiently handle reacting flow. Trajectory specification, conjugate vehicle heating, and ablation with surface recession will be enabled through use of a Trajectory Ablation & Shape Chang ...

Fine powder thermal battery cathode materials can exhibit challenging flow properties which makes processing with automated presses difficult.Granulating these powders substantially improves flow properties and reduces the tendency for powder segregation during handling and pressing operations.The properties of Magnesium Oxide (MgO) that lead to good performance in thermal battery separators are n ...

In a pilot study effort in 2013, the Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy (ODASD (MIBP)) developed a methodology that goes beyond legacy reactive and program-centric frameworks for assessing industrial base risk. This proposed effort leverages the pilot studys work with the fragility and criticality (FaC) assessment to develop a predictive and proactive tool to assist ...

Karagozian & Case, Inc. (K&C) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) will develop a re-usable, cost-effective, and accurate dynamic characterization methodology capable of measuring the dynamic material properties of various materials of interest under very high strain rates. Materials property data for various ductile materials (e.g., steel and aluminum) are required as input to f ...

Space Micro and partner institution Arizona State University propose to design and prototype a Programmable Multi-Frequency Transmitter (PMFT) that is compliant with both the Kill Vehicle Modular Open Architecture (KVMOA) and Space Telecommunications Radio System (STRS) standards. The KVMOA maximizes reuse of components and system designs and reduce total ownership costs. The STRS standard allows ...

FreEnt Technologies, Inc., along with A2Z Innovations, Inc. (A2Z) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are teaming together to design and develop a High-Speed Simultaneous Multiple Object Detection (HS-SMOD). The HS-SMOD system uses a simple but innovative technique of a passive fiber-optic grid and opto-electronic detectors to measure the initial and subsequent hit points of extremel ...

deciBel Research, Inc. and the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Mississippi - the deciBel Team - proposes to continue to develop and mature threat physics based classification, track association/track correlation, and dynamic attributes determination threat characterization algorithms that effectively and efficiently fuse data from multiple sensors. The classification algorit ...