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A NOVEL AND NEWLY DISCOVERED C60 CARBON MATERIAL WAS FOUND TO EXHIBIT UNIQUE ELECTROCHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPROERTIES. C60 AND CATALYZED C60 ELECTRODES WILL BE FABRICATED BY VAPOR DEPOSITION AND DRY PRESSING. THESE ELECTRODES WILL BE FULLY CHARACTERIZED FOR HYDROGEN REDUCTION IN VARIOUS AQUESOUS ELECTROYTES. THE NATURE OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGENATION OF C60 WILL BE ESTABLISHED. A SINGLE CELL ...

IN A FEW YEARS, THE NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER (NTC) WILL HAVE NEW SIMULATION SYSTEMS AND UPGRADES TO RDMA AND RMCS. GIVEN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT INTEGRATION, TEHSE SYSTEMS WILL INCREASE, SIGNIFICANTLY, THE AMOUNT AND FIDELITY OF DATA AVAILABLE TO THE TRAINING SNALYST. HOW EFFECTIVE THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE DEPENDS ON HOW EFFICIENTLY THE MAN-MACHINE COMBINAITONS AT TRAINING ANALYST WORK STATIONS ARE ...

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AstroPower will develop a two-junction monolithic tandem solar cell composed of (AlxGa1-x)0.51 In(0.49)P, which is lattice matched to GaAs, as the top cell in a three-junction, two-terminal tandem solar cell. This new tunable bandgap Al-Ga-In-P material is capable of current matching in a two-junction monolithic tandem solar cell two-terminal design of the Al-Ga-In-P over GaAs yielding a best case ...

AstroPower is developing a highly sensitive UV detector based on epitaxial AlGaP/GaP heterostructures, a promising new material system for ultraviolet detectors. Detecting ultraviolet light is important to spectrophotometry, astronomy, high-energy physics, medicine, UV curing, photoresist exposure, and chemical processes. The large bandgap and crystalline quality of gallium phosphide will provide ...

One of the most interesting aspects of the new carbon allotropes, the fullerenes, is their versatile electronic properties, which range from insulating to superconducting depending on the type and level of admixtured elements. The record fulleride transition temperatures have been steadily rising and is 45K at this writing. Fullerenes even have advantages over the ceramic superconductors because o ...

CURRENT MICROFUSES FOR FASCAM MINES, WHOSE DESIGN IS SIMILAR TO MINIATURE DETONATORS OR SQUIBS, HAVE RELIABILITY PROBLEMS. THIS RESULTS IN MINES WHICH SELF-DESTRUCT EARLY, REDUCING MINEFIELD EFFECTIVENESS, OR LATE, ENDANGERING FRIENDLY TROOPS MOVING INTO THE AREA. MINIATURE DETONATORS USING THIN BRIDGEWIRES ALSO HAVE RELIABILITY PROBLEMS. USING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY, SILICON DESIGNS HAS DE ...

A HIGH CELL DENSITY FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY IS PROPOSED FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL NERVE GAS DEGRADING ENZYMES. THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL RELY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ULTRA HIGH CELL DENSITY (GREATER THAN 100 G DRY WEIGHT CELLS/L) CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL ENZYMES KNOWN TO DEGRADE NERVE GASES.