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The Feather Weight Display is a novel design and integration of industrially mature technologies including ultra-density silicon circuits with ultra-dense chip-to-chip interconnections, ultra-density VCSEL arrays, nonlinear photonic upconverting color materials, and nonlinear optical elements. To demonstrate its potential is primarily a design process. Design of emissive and virtual retinal devi ...

The proposal addresses the development of a novel, efficient manufacturing technology demonstrated during Phase 1. This novel technology has clearly shown specific benefits to critically loaded components of liquid rocket engines using advanced process modeling and computer aided design. Examples of these critically loaded components that will be fabricated are static and rotating parts of turbo- ...

The Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF), a state-of-the-art installed system test facility (ISTF) at Edwards Air Force Base, California, is systematically upgrading capabilities to include infrared and electro-optical system testing. Future capabilities and testing will also include operation of high-power RF equipment. The BAF currently has a requirement to monitor the potential hazard of RAM (Ra ...

Measurement of gas total temperature, particularly in highly unsteady transonic flow, continues to demand spatial and temporal resolution beyond the capabilities of most existing probe deployed sensors, but is essential to elucidate the role of inlet gas temperature distortion on gas turbine engine performance. To meet this requirement, MetroLaser has proposed and demonstrated, under the Phase I S ...

This Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) proposal describes an innovative propulsion system that meets the near term Army FCS class II OAV propulsion system requirements. The proposed approach is an innovative Supercharged Injected 60 degree V-twin uniflow four-cycle design of 450cc cylinder capacity designated (SIV-2225). Unlike commercial off the shelf conversions, the proposed SIV-2225 overcomes small scal ...

Smart antennas, with their ability to form multiple beams of arbitrary time-varying patterns, offer the means to achieve significant performance benefits in multi-hop mobile wireless networks. The realizable gains in performance depend upon the capabilities of the antennas and the algorithms employed to control the use of their transmission resources. In our Phase I the San Diego Research Center, ...

This proposal addresses the need for deep UV semiconductor lasers for use in UV resonance enhanced Raman spectroscopic identification of biological agents. The proposed approach avoids the problems of p-doping and ohmic contacts by using subminiature direct electron injection excitation of an InAlGaN heterostructure. We have demonstrated strong stimulated emission at 274nm using this approach with ...

Luminescent Technologies is developing a disruptive innovation to improve sub-wavelength lithography for semiconductor manufacturing. The company has developed a new approach for optimizing photomasks as an inverse problem. It is a radical departure from existing resolution enhancement technologies that merely perturb the original design. Unlike existing techniques, this technology will conside ...

During Phase I we conducted a series of trades to determine size and performance parameters of the overall StreakerTM vehicle family, including determination of the optimum size of the second stages relative to the CCB's, Taking the development of an affordable SLV system to the next level, the objective of this effort is to define, develop and fabricate a full-scale High Propellant Mass Fraction ...

CodeSourcery will develop an optimized, parallel VSIPL++ implementation. CodeSourcery's implementation will support the entire VSIPL++ API and will be optimized for both serial and parallel performance. CodeSourcery will use expression template techniques to make serial optimizations (such as loop fusion) and parallel optimizations (such as message optimizations).