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AVEKA proposes the use of one of its proprietary leaching processes to dehydrate water-wet pelletized nitrocellulose (PNC). This is a process which will be safe, economical and will allow continuous processing during the dehydration step in thepelletization process. It is also a process that can utilize standard industrial leaching/extraction equipment with some modifications. The successful co ...

The development of a process to produce semi-insulating (SI) silicon carbide (SiC) boules with improved yields will significantly reduce the cost of wafers and thus accelerate the rapid commercialization of SI SiC for microwave and RF system applications.The objective of this Phase II project is to improve and perfect the process development of a radically new approach for the synthesis of high pu ...

Absence of low defect density large diameter (~100mm) silicon carbide (SiC) wafers is a major barrier for the commercial production of SiC based devices. This phase I program is aimed at demonstrating a novel technique that will significantly reduce themechanical stress in SiC during boule growth. In phase I, we will demonstrate that by the proposed method, a significant reduction in the mechnic ...

This Phase I program is aimed at demonstrating the principle of off c-axis boule growth of 4H-SiC. In Phase I, using off-axis SiC seeds, we will demonstrate the growth of 4H-n SiC boules~15 mm long. Also in Phase I, we will slice the off-axis boules intowafers, lap and polish them, and perform structural and electrical characterization of the wafers. Comparisons will be made with on-axis wafers ...

This Phase I program is aimed at demonstrating a novel SiC source material synthesis technique that will be used to grow high resistivity SiC. In this effort, we will demonstrate that the proposed source material synthesis technique will produce SiCstarting material that is far superior to presently used material in terms of purity and process time, and that the high purity source material can be ...

We proposed a simple wafer scale method to leap frog current CMOS technology. The slow-down in CMOS scaling is limited by technology difficulties and by economics. In tooling up for .13-micron technology, the jump from .18-micron is costing $10 billionis equipment alone, plus accompanying expenses of redesign and module formulation. The net effect of this massive capital investment is to replac ...

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65799 A whole-tree harvesting system would significantly reduce the cost of cutting, loading, and handling farm-grown hybrid trees for use in the biomass energy production industry. To continue progress in the development of the whole-tree harvester, this project will develop automatic controls for the steering and tree accumulator systems. In Phase I, automatic control systems will be designe ...

Laser radars (ladars) have been investigated for the detection, classification and terminal tracking of military targets. One area of concern is the performance of automatic target acquisition (ATA) algorithms on targets that are stochastically obscuredby foliage. A program is proposed that will increase the understanding of target obscuration while increasing the set of non-proprietary ATA algo ...

This proposal demonstrates the feasibility of top-down, VHDL-based verificationof gigascale, integrated, mixed-signal system-on-a-chip for military applications.Building on FTL Systems' unique parallel-compile, parallel-execute HDLcompiler/simulator, this effort introduces novel analog solver, iterativeoptimization, parallel processing and hardware acceleration technology. Thesenovel technologies ...