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As an alternative to holographic laser radar, AMPS will develop a 3-D imaging concept that collects far-field intensity speckle patterns. This kind of measurement greatly relaxes the tolerances on vibration and coherence length. However, phase retrieval will be required to retrieve a 3-D image. Phase retrieval algorithms typically utilize some type of prior knowledge about the object. In industria ...

A key component in the Alkali Metal Thermal to Electric Converter (AMTEC) is the electrode that is generally sputter deposited on the beta"-alumina solid electrolyte (BASE). Electrode deposition, as it is now practiced however, is a random process that covers active sites on the BASE and places many electrode pore openings at inactive sites. This proposal describes a novel fabrication process for ...

ASTROPOWER PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH EFFICIENCY, MONOLITHICALLY INTERCONNECTED THIN SILICON SOLAR CELL ARRAY. THE ARRAY INCORPORATES AN INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE TO ACHIEVE ELECTRICAL ISOLATION AND INTERCONNECTION OF THE ARRAY ELEMENTS. A MONOLITHICALLY INTERCONNECTED ARRAY TECHNOLOGY OFFERS REDUCED COST AND COMPLEXITY AS WELL AS INCREASED RELIABILITY AND YIELD COMPARED TO CONVENTIONAL SO ...

ASTROPOWER PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A NEW FRONT-ILLUMINATED, ALUMINUM GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE (AlGaP) BASED, CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD), ULTRAVIOLET (UV) IMAGING ARRAY. THIS NOVEL ARRAY TECHNOLOGY HAS NEVER BEEN SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED. THREE NEW INNOVATIONS WILL BE NECESSARY TO ACOMPLISH THE AlGaP CCD. THESE ARE: AlGaP MATERIAL QUALITY WHICH CAN SUPPORT A CCD DEVICE; THE GROWTH OF A NATIVE OXIDE ON THE AlGa ...

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Safety-critical aerospace applications have become increasingly dependent on a software component. However, conventional approaches to increasing the software reliability of these systems have focused on purely programming aspects. While these methods can all lead to techniques which should minimize the number of flaws in the logic of programs, none claim to result in generation of code with zero ...

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This proposal represents a joint small business/university development effort to investigate the problem of plant health monitoring and to evolve a preliminary design of a spectral imaging system. Biotronics Technologies, as the small business SBIR proposer, has extensive background in the development of spectral and spatial imaging systems and has proven its capability to convert a set of require ...

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices have shown some promise as specific gas detector/analyzers for a number of applications. These sensors operate as dual oscillators in which one SAW is coated with a sorbent material specific to c particular gas. The frequency of the coated oscillator changes with gas concentration while the uncoated reference oscillator does not. The difference between the frequ ...

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