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The proposing company's reformable, reusable tooling can substantially reduce the time, cost and effort associated with conventional or alternative tooling while providing the flexibility for prototyping iterations, short-run or low rate manufacture through lengthy product cycles. This Phase II project addresses the use of reformable tooling materials and tooling systems for the production of prot ...

The objective of this proposal is to mature the photosensitive liquid crystal (LC) material and device technologies the feasibility of which was demonstrated in the Phase 1 of the project. Prototypes of basic optical components that can be assembled to perform variety of photonics tasks controlled by low-power light beams, particularly, from LED sources will be demonstrated. Different realizations ...

Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) technology combines the light modulating capability of liquid crystal with compact VLSI backplanes to create reflective micro displays. This proposal addresses the limitations of current LCoS technology in meeting the needs of an IR scene projector, and proposes an approach for the development of a multi-purpose VLSI backplane that is suitable for use in the visib ...

The porosity of Boundless' new innovative lithium-ion battery separator material is over 45% greater than that of the current state of the art, thereby allowing significantly higher power operation of lithium-ion battery cells. Test cells in Phase I showed increases in power of 28-37% relative to those with Celgardr 2500 separators. The fabrication process for the new separator is significantly ...

The United States faces the imminent loss of a technology critical to national security. The guidance systems of many key missile defense systems rely on Coatings of Titanium Carbide (TiC) applied by a novel Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Process on the balls of precision ball bearings. This unique process produces a ball with performance characteristics unmatched by any material technology tes ...

Air-Borne Laser tests involving the shooting down of ballistic missiles are currently scheduled to occur at the end of 2004 or early 2005. If tests are successful, an immediate demand for a deployable system capable of producing chemicals necessary for operation will arise. Case Engineering proposes to complete detailed engineering, construct and demonstrate critical modules for the air-transpor ...

Existing nonvolatile semiconductor memory, such as Flash memory, is system life-limiting because of its softness to radiation exposure. Because commercial wafer fabrication processes change, the radiation hardness fluctuates uncontrollably. The objective of this SBIR proposal is to demonstrate that a non-destructive read-out (NDRO) ferroelectric memory with radiation hardened CMOS circuitry that ...

Directed energy missile defense applications require a new generation of compact and efficient high power solid-state electrical lasers. Scalability of current state-of-the-art kW-class solid-state Master Oscillator/Power Amplifier (MOPA) systems is limited by thermo-optic aberrations in the gain medium, and by heat transport/disposal. Beam-combining by multiplexing several 1-10kW class MOPAs pr ...

CTI has extensive experience with high performance, mil-spec, flight-qualified LADAR systems, and we are keenly aware that the environmental control systems for such lasers can often be larger, heavier, and more power-hungry than the lasers themselves. Additionally, transmitters for LADAR systems urgently need to take a technological step forward from their present-day configurations that tend to ...

Coherent Technologies Inc., proposes "Coherent Ladar Algorithm for Robust Acquisition, Discrimination, Aimpoint Selection and Maintenance" to address MDA Ladar algorithm development and signature processing for advanced missile seekers. The proposed algorithm exploits unique capabilities of emerging Doppler Ladars, fused with passive sensors, to acquire/discriminate threats that may contain off-n ...