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Reliability and structural safety are major concerns in the design of next-generation space transportation and systems. Acellent Technologies, Inc. Proposes to develop and innovative, cost-effective and reliable built-in structural diagnostic system forlight-weight large-scale space structures made of composite materials to monitor their integrity during service thereby prolonging life span, red ...

A comprehensive rigorous unified physical formulation and accurate efficient robust computation technique are described for simulating complex compressible viscous reacting multiphases flow phenomena which can affect or control the performance or signatureof a flight vehicle during al phases of operation. The method is designed to enable continuous seamless predictions for internal, external, and ...

There is an emerging need within military electronics for protection of electronics from the adverse effects of high power electromagnetic radiation. The Department of Defense has a requirement to ensure survivability of important military C3 and weaponssystems against the effects of electromagnetic weapons threats. What is needed is an electromagnetic hardening technology that is lightweight ye ...

As the current trends in transistor miniaturization are continued down to the molecular level ( in a dimension of tens of nanometers or less), the electronic properties of solids and solid-solid interfaces are inherently different on the nanometer level.It is becoming clear that continued increases in circuit density will require fairly dramatic changes in the way transistors are designed and ope ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposed to develop a new fabrication technology that would lead to ultra low-cost, high quality radial gradient refractive index (GRIN) rods, which are widely used in fiber optic communications. Drastic cost reduction isexpected because several cost and labor intensive manufacturing processes will be eliminated, the product yield will be increased significantly compare ...

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Payload planners of earth imaging systems have always struggled with the fundamental problem of designing a delicate, pointing system that survives the severe vibro-acoustic environments of launch. The standard solution is to mass load the spacecraft busand lock down the pointing stage during launch. However, the parasitic mass and unwanted complexity are unacceptable for future RLV systems. C ...

In Phase I of this program, we proposed, and demonstrated a novel method for producing low loss on chip waveguides without etching. We propose, in Phase II, to focus on the materials unique optical properties, that is, not only a brad range of asdeposited index of refraction but the ability to be processed to given specific values in plane with refraction but the ability to be processed to given ...

This proposal is to combine the proven high density 3D packing technology with the ultra high performance of low temperature superconductor memory technology. The maturity level of the memory is approaching 16 Kbits per square centimeter. The memory is akey enabler for superconductor electronics processing but to be practical for near-term applications, larger blocks of this memory must be assem ...

This is a Phase 2 proposal to develop an instrument to simultaneously measure particle size, velocity, and concentration in applications characterized by a large size range and high particle concentration. The instrument will be based on the Pulse Displacement Technique whose feasibility was demonstrated during Phase 1. Experiments performed during Phase 1 demonstrated a high accuracy in meas ...