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Crested multi-layer tunnel barriers have been proposed, which offer a revolutionary solution to overcome density to speed trade-offs characteristic of present data storage technologies. Practical implementation of the proposed technology will involve useof thin film materials that are readily manufacturable and CMOS-compatible. A critical need exists for experimental verification of the theoreti ...

The SAE smoke number has been an important measurement for prevention of black, sooty plumes in military and commercial aviation. The current method, however, requires the use of a complex extraction system to bring engine exhaust through a filter paper,and then requires a person to remove the soot covered filter and perform a measurement in an optical reflectometer to determine the smoke number. ...

The US Airforce seeks innovative water filtration systems to reduce arsenic level in drinking water to meet the EPA's new 10ppb limit. This arsenic limit will take effect in 2006, and will not be waived or deferred by EPA, which increases urgency fordeveloping advanced filtration media. Inframat Corporation proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of exploiting a nanofibrous manganese dioxide bir ...

M Cubed has developed three key processes (PRIMEX, DIMOX and reaction bonding) for manufacturing advanced materials components. The processes have been used to make a variety of components for commercial and military systems making them lighter, stiffer,highly functional and resistant to many threats. In the Phase I program, M Cubed demonstrated the feasibility of a revolutionary modification to t ...

An extremely capable team of M Cubed Technologies and Fraunhofer USA is proposing to replace high cost, toxic Be-based metals with innovative, Mg metal matrix composites (MMCs) in stiffness critical structural applications. In short, the program willevaluate processing of Mg MMCs via both pressureless infiltration and squeeze casting. Variables to be studied will include processing parameters, M ...

General visual inspection, the current practice of aircraft wire maintenance, is almost entirely dependent on human decision making. An inspector reads/deciphers wire identification markings and sorts through voluminous printed documents to determinerelevant interconnection data. Intangible limitations such as operator skills and tangible issues such as limited access, poor lighting and random or ...

Military and Civil standards (SAE ARP 1179B, ICAO Annex 16 Volume II) for aircraft gas turbine engine smoke emissions are based upon an essentially manual extractive probe sampling method with off-line sample analysis and data processing. These standards,which are similar, were designed to demonstrate compliance with regulatory standards for plume opacity or visibility and were specifically develo ...

A novel photoreceiver is proposed based upon the optical sensitivity , gain and impedance transformation properties of an optoelectronic thyristor and HFET integrated circuit. The thyristor is implemented as a vertical cavity device and is compatible withcomplementary HFET digital/analog electronics or complementary bipolar analog/digital gates in a monolithic technology. The thyristor is designe ...

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The objective of this proposal is to develop an improved baculovirus transfer vector that contains features enabling real time monitoring of protein expression, high level protein production and rapid protein purification from the insect cells. We proposeto build this new vector based upon our proprietary pPSC12 transfer vector that already contains the powerful polyhedrin promoter, believed by ma ...