Award Data

N/A

From a control theory perspective, ballistic missile defense requires a distributed dynamic non-linear control system. The conventional approach to coordinating the allocation and use of components that are geographically dispersed and functionally diverse is through a central management function that contains missile defense system and element control law. This central manager has to deal with t ...

A successful large area ELO GaN process technology will lead to a low cost 'virtual substrate' for LED and high performance III-N based devices. We propose to investigate the application of this technique in large area III-Nitride MOCVD reactors, up to 42x2 sapphire and silicon substrates; the latter as a low cost alternative to sapphire for high volume/low cost devices. EMC ...

For the manufacture of long length YBCO superconductors, there is a need for process that will rapidly produce c-axis texture in thick films. During this Phase I, we will investigate a manufacturing process that has the potential to provide rapid formation of c-axis texture on both textured and non textured flexible metal substrates. During the Phase I we will setup the manufacturing process, prod ...

In the proposed program, thin-film capacitors will be developed based on low-cost transition metal nitrides for miniaturized munition fuzing as well as several other applications with high power and voltage requirements With transition metal nitrides having conductivity values similar to their corresponding metal and an unprecedented high surface area that will be achieved through our approach, hi ...

ZnO material is a wide bandgap semiconductor and a piezoelectric material as well. ZnO is compatible with current Si process technology. Large area, high quality ZnO films can be deposited by MOCVD technique on various substrates, such as sapphire and Si at low growth temperature. We propose to develop a new smart sensor technology by integration of multifunctional ZnO sensors with Si IC for imagi ...

Numerous applications exist where cooling is desired for sensors, for only a small portion of the entire spacecraft orbit. These burst power requirements may also be coupled with a requirement to have no vibration during this data gathering period. This problem is often further complicated by the fact that the cooling temperatures are typically cryogenic. Such cryocooling requirements are typical ...

Successful development of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tunable devices such as multipole band pass filters and demonstration of their high-Q performance will lead to significant enhancements in several military and commercial communications systems The primary objective of the present SBIR program is to develop magnetically tunable HTS filter technology, integrating the superconducting p ...

MicSOI (silicon-on-insulator) material is a most promising substrate for military and commercial applications. The SOI process based on hydrogen-implantation, wafer splitting, and wafer bonding is the newest and the cheapest approach to SOI fabrication. We propose to develop hydrogen-implanted SOI wafer process for production with a focus on improving the quality of SOI thus improving radiation ha ...

Development of a high performance electronically tunable optical filter for the mid-infrared abling technology for spectral imaging, chemical vapor sensing and numerous other remote sensing applications. Tunable Fabry-Perot (F-P) filters have desirable features of high throughput (much needed in the mid-IR region where detectors are of low sensitivity ...