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PLASMA PROCESSING HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT TECHNIQUE IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION. IN ORDER TO IMPROVE PROCESS REPRODUCIBILITY AND DEVELOP PROCESS AND QUALITY CONTROL, THE GEC REFERENCE CELL HAS BEEN CHOSEN AT NIST AS THE EXPERIMENTAL STANDARD REACTOR WHICH IS DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THE NEXT GENERATION PLASMA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT. THE PROPOSED EFFORT ADDRESSES DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVEPRED ...

A-ACPTS Phase 2 transitions NIST Access Control Policy Tool (ACPT) R&D with innovative enhancements into commercialization, developing a commercially successful access control policy testing product that improves access control policy testing (minimizes error potential, faster, more usable, more efficient). A-ACPTS Phase 2 extends ACPT through a number of innovations that improve testing beyond th ...

NOAA seeks to characterize the impact of severe weather on coastal areas with a cost-effective, responsive multi-mission sensor system. In response Areté Associates proposes a conceptual design for an affordable, responsive, compact airborne sensor system called “Coastal Eyes” which will rapidly provide land and surface water topography, surface current, debris and storm surge mapping over wi ...

The pH of the global ocean is becoming more acidic as a consequence of oceanic absorption of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This process, termed “ocean acidification” (OA), will likely affect the aquaculture of marine shellfish. Maintaining current levels of commercial mollusc production will require the identification and commercialization of resilient seedstock. Through Phase I r ...

The aquaculture industry lags in genetically based selective breeding programs when compared to terrestrial commercial crops. This aggravates the United States’ (U.S.) $11 billion dollar seafood deficit, puts U.S. aquaculture entrepreneurs at an early disadvantage for success, and increases risk of bivalve crop degradation from climate change. Heterosis in bivalve crops, the phenomenon in which ...

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VARIOUS TYPES OF RAPID SOLIDIFICATION PROCESSES, RSP, ARE CRITICAL AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING THE TRANSITION FROM NICKEL BASED SUPERALLOYS TO BIMETALLIC ALLOYS. PULSED LASER HOLOGRAPHY OFFERS THE POTENTIAL FOR RESOLVING THE MICROSCOPIC DETAILS OF RSP ATOMIZATION, OSPREY, AND PLASMA DEPOSITION PROCESSES; THEREBY PROVIDING INFORMATION TO IMPROVE AND CONTROL THE PROCESS. DESIRABLE ASPECTS OF P ...

OUR PROPOSAL DEFINES A DETAILED APPROACH TO DEVELOP A HIGH DENSITY ACOUSTIC ARRAY TO MONITOR AMBIENT ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS. WE PROPOSE AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH INVOLVING PASSIVE INTERROGATION OF FIBER OPTIC INTERFEROMETRIC SENSORSWHICH REQUIRE NO ELECTRONICS TO OPERATE THE TELEMETRY OR SENSORS. THE PROPOSED CONFIGURATION UTILIZING RUGGED SILICAMATERIALS IS CAPABLE OF HIGH ACCURACY OVER SEVERE ENVIRONM ...

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This subtopic solicited Phase I R&D for an advanced Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) system that would provide fast-scanning high resolution (3 scans/sec at 1cm-1 resolution), low noise, mid-infrared measurements for characterization of spray flames. In Phase I, Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (AFR) demonstrated FT-IR emission/transmission (E/T) measurements from the NIST spray combustion faci ...