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The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the effectiveness of using an innovative deposition process for making Sm2Fe17Nx/á-Fe16N2 magnetic materials in bulk quantities. In addition, exchange-coupled nanostructured composites of these materials will be produced. The advantage of this process is that it allows precise control over the deposition ions so that the morphology of the materials ca ...

The overall goal of this research work is to design, build and evaluate high performance above-knee prosthetic systems suitable for military specific maneuvers. Existing above-knee prostheses are limited by the lack of compact energy sources, actuators, power regeneration methods, and control methods for active knee actuation. This proposal seeks to improve the dynamic performance of above-the-k ...

The direct versus heterodyne detection tradeoffs made in the Phase I program clearly showed that direct detection is strongly favored over heterodyne detection based on sensor performance analysis; assessment of laser and electronics hardware; and conside

Highly fluorinated, nanoscaled polymers were developed in a Phase I program (Contract No. W81XWH-04-C-0132) as an oxygen-carrying treatment for hemorrhagic shock in battlefield environments. These were highly soluble in water and buffered electrolyte solution (up to roughly 50% weight/volume) and were thermally stable up to 167 °C. Mixing the polymers with dilute canine blood significantly enhanc ...

A unique, wireless, body-worn system to establish on-body collection and intra-squad communication of physiologic and geo-position information is essential to the reduction of soldier heat-injuries, enables advanced physiologic research and provides a mea

Inlustra Technologies and the University of California, Santa Barbara propose to grow and characterize thick non-polar and semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that will act as seeds for subsequent GaN boule growth. In this Phase I STTR effort, Inlustra will first develop non-polar and semi-polar GaN films with smooth surfaces and minimal wafer bowing and cracking. The growth conditions for e ...

We propose to develop a novel chemical agent sensor through a joint collaborative effort between IonFinity, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Imaginative Technologies. This chemical sensor consists of 1) a new and powerful detector called a Differential Mobility Spectrometer which has been developed at Imaginative Technologies by team member Dr. Gary Eiceman, and 2) a novel “soft-ionization” ...

Irvine Sensors Corporation (ISC) together with North Carolina State University propose to develop a novel behavioral technique that is capable of detecting network based intrusions, and can then be used to identify signatures for an Intrusion Prevent Engine (IPE). The behavioral technique proposed detects attacks embedded in different network layers using assertions that can be dynamically updated ...

We propose a new method developed by our employees and collaborators for the digital representation of real world objects. This will result in an implicit surface urban terrain model that interpolates raw point cloud data. The method can handle complex topologies and geometries easily. Topology changes pose no difficulties. The key idea involves shrink wrapping an implicit surface around data poin ...

Imaging with X-rays and gamma rays is a long established technique. It is possible with recent technological advances that standard transmission radiography may be extended to self-radiography, where the natural radioactivity of the object itself and the surrounding matrix is used as the source of X-rays. Self-radiography is much more complex than traditional radiography, chiefly because it depend ...