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A $1B commercial blue optoelectronics industry supplying full color displays, high speed communications systems, and high density optical recording devices will happen. The question is: which technology, II-VI materials, III-V nitrides, or silicon carbide and its alloys, will dominate? Theoretical calculations and experimental external quantum efficiencies combined favor a direct band gap material ...

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The objective of the proposed program is to develop and demonstrate a low-cost, high thermal conductivity, low mass density material for use in electronic packaging. Target material characteristics are: less than aluminum heat sinks, thermal conductivity at least 200 W/m-k, and mass density less than aluminum. To address this objective, Cast Metal Composites, Inc. will produce lightweight, high ...

The proposed experimental program demonstrates the technical feasibility of growing single crystals of technologically important ceramics by the solid state method. The proposed method relies on discontinuous grain growth which is often regarded as undesirable and deleterious during the sintering of many ceramics. In order to demonstrate the technical feasibility and versatility of the solid sta ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will demonstrate a novel process for electrochemical machining nickel superalloys and other hard, passive alloys. Nickel-based superalloys are widely used in various industries, such as aerospace and automative industries. However, nickel superalloys are difficult-to-cut materials. Traditional mechanical methods failed to machine these sup ...

High quality technical signal and image compressions requires the ability to rapidly adapt a compression method to the nature of the signal or image as well as to the desired features Wavelet and wavelet packet based algorithms have the capability of fitting such needs (as demonstrated by the extensive testing of the FBI for obtaining a wavelet packet based fingerprint compression algorithm standa ...

ARPA has identified an important need for improved noise abatement while providing increased fuel economy for automobiles and other motor driven vehicles. This proposal is responsive to this need. It provides for a Phase I project to design and prove the feasibility of a noise abatement device for use on automobiles instead of conventional resonators and mufflers. This concept uses active noise ab ...

This SBIR project of Phase I proposes to develop and advance a process technology called Dynamic Magnetic Compaction (DMC). This technology will be useful for fabricating nanostructured components of various material systems such as ceramics, metals, high temperature alloys, and composites from their respective nano powders. The fabrication of nano components from nano powders requires the conso ...

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This project describes a design methodology and development environment that can be used to develop efficient parallel or distributed software systems. Implicit in the methodology are concerns for the characteristics of the information being processed, the properties of the host computer systems, execution time performance issues and measures of effectiveness. The methodology incorporates the ad ...