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AgilOptics and the University of Notre Dame are collaborating to develop and commercialize an aero-optics disturbance simulator. Wavefront temporal data will be collected on various wind tunnel configurations that are applicable to transmitting light beams from aircraft. These time histories of the optical path distortions will be recorded and re-played through a membrane deformable mirror, driv ...

In this STTR project, Boston Applied Technologies, Inc. (BATi), teaming up with Prof. Di Bartolo’s group at Boston College, aims at developing a large size (300 mm x 300 mm) updatable 3D display with photorefractive polymers for battlefield and command and control applications. The proposed 3D display system features fast response (feasible to video-rate), high diffraction efficiency, and relati ...

Window materials are an essential component of some advanced propulsion concepts which require high pressures, high temperatures, low energy losses, and low weights. Window materials must possess a combination of properties such as high mechanical strength, high melting point, high transparency, low density, and good resistance to the operating environment. CeraNova proposes the development of f ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Program is aimed at the development of an innovative method and procedure for depositing corrosion-resistant material to aircraft components as an alternative to aluminum cladding approaches. We plan to use environmentally compliant amorphous metal coatings from the Al-Co-Ce and similar alloy families that have recently been developed at the University of Vi ...

The Giner, Inc. Phase I program will examine the response to explosive and toxic gas simulants of sensor arrays using a combination of specifically doped metal oxides (DMO) developed at Giner, Inc. in conjunction with metallophthalocyanine (MPc) thin films developed at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Electronic controls developed for the MPc sensors will be evaluated also for th ...

In this proposal, Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI) and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) detail the development of a novel miniature RFID sensor for BWA tracking and identification at a standoff distance. The key innovations of our approach include: a)The design of a planar inverted- F antenna (PIFA) on the RFID chip to receive and transmit RF signal. The compactness, good impedanc ...

Micromechanics of failure (MMF) is a new approach that links strength and life of fiber, matrix and their interfaces to those of plies, laminates and structures. Use of MMF for static strength and its extension to creep rupture and fatigue life prediction already show great promise. MMF for this proposal will be extended to interlaminar hybrids like Tigr and Glare, but also many structural details ...

The Air Force desires development of a commercial production source for nonlinear optical (NLO) gallium arsenide semiconductor crystals with orientation patterning, i.e., OP-GaAs. The Phase I project has demonstrated feasibility for a fabrication method of OP-GaAs which exclusively utilizes processes anticipated to be available from commercial vendors and at Physical Sciences Inc (PSI). Molecula ...

SMI in partnership with Stanford University will perform research to develop and apply new methods to analyse and predict stability and performance of a distrubuted control for a gas turbine engine.

Modern control theory offers mathematically rigorous and powerful solutions to many dynamic systems. Its limitations are that the classes of dynamic systems covered by the theory are limited to linear systems or certain well-structured nonlinear systems, and the adaptation of the controllers are often slow if the controller parameters are far away from their desired values. On the other hand, the ...