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WE PROPOSE AN EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE QUERY PROCESSING COMPONENT FOR AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM BASED ON THE USE OF NETWORKED MICROCOMPUTERS AS A LOOSELY-COUPLED NETWORK DATABASE. THE QUERY PROCESSSING SYSTEM WILL WORK ON BOTH LOCAL AND WIDE AREA NETWORKS AND CAN BE USED WITH ANY METHOD OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. WE PROPOSE TO: 1. MODEL THE EXPECTED PERFORMANCE OF THIS SYSTEM SO THAT IT M ...

SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN DECISIONS ARE KEY TO MULTI-COMPONENT SYNTHESIS: THE DETERMINATION OF WHERE TO SPLIT THE FUNCTIONALITY AMONG COMPONENTS HAS A GREAT EFFECT ON THE SIZE AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DESIGN. BY PARTITIONING A BEHAVIOR ONTO SEPARATE MODULES EARLY IN THE DESIGN PROCESS, THE PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS CAN BE PROPAGATED TO LATER DESIGN STAGES. DASYS PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A TOOL TO AID IN THE DESIGN ...

ING AND CRACK ARRESTING LAYER DESIGNS ARE APPROPRIATE.

LARGE, HIGH QUALITY CDZNTE SINGLE CRYSTALS AREREQUIRED AS HGCDTE EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS. BRIDGMAN GROWTH PROCESSES ARE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED TO PRODUCE MATERIALS WHICH MEET SOME APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS, BUT FALL SHORT IN MANY STATE-OF-THE-ART EPITAXIAL HGCDTE DEVICES. BRIDGMANTECHNIQUES, BEING MELT PROCESSES, ARE STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY INTRICATE COUPLI ...

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CERAMICS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE VERY EFFECTIVE IN THE DEFEAT OF A WIDE RANGE OF KINETIC ENERGY (KE) THREATS. HOWEVER, THE USE OF CERAMICS IN ARMORED VEHICLES HAS BEEN LIMITED DUE IN MOST PART TO THEIR HIGH COST. CERAMIC PARTICULATE REINFORCED METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMCS) PRODUCED BY PRESSURELESS LIQUID METAL INFILTRATION ARE INEXPENSIVE RELATIVE TO MONOLITHIC CERAMICS DUE TO THE LOWER COST OF THE ...

TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (TCAD) IS THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTER TOOLS TO EXPEDITE THE DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING PROCESSES. MANY OF THE TOOLS WHICH ARE USED WERE EITHER DEVELOPED INDEPENDENTLY IN UNIVERSITIES OR IC MANUFACTURING COMPANY RESEARCH CENTERS. CONSEQUENTLY, COMPLEX TCAD TOOLS ARE DIFFICULT TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN. TCAD RESEARCHERS HAVE IDENTIFIED THE NEED FOR TCAD ...

PDF SOLUTIONS PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A STATISTICAL DESIGN TOOL FOR PROCESS/DEVICE AND CIRCUIT DESIGN IMPROVEMENT. BOTH PROCESS AND CIRCUIT DESIGNERS HAVE DIFFICULTY QUANTIFYING THE EFFECT OF PROCESS VARIABILITY UPON A CIRCUIT'S PARAMETRIC YIELD. EXISTING METHODS RELY ON EMPIRICAL OR QUALITATIVE METHODS THAT EITHER PRECLUDE CONCURRENT ENGINEERING OR ARE NOT BASED UPON THE PROCESS PHYSICS. EXISTING TCA ...

A NEW PROCESS IS PROPOSED FOR THE APPLICATION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS FOR AUTOMOTIVE WINDOWS. SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERIC MATERIALS CAN BE RENDERED CLEAR THROUGH 3-D ORIENTATION VIA SOLID STATE PROCESSING. APPLYING THIS TECHNOLOGY TO A HYBRID POLYMER STRUCTURE CAN RESULT IN CHEMICALLY RESISTANT, MECHANICALLY STRONG, OPTICALLY CLEAR AND ECONOMICALLY VIABLE PLASTIC WINDOWS FOR GROUND TRANSPORTATION.

IN THE TREATMENT OF THE DYNAMIC PROBLEMS OF STRUCTURES, TWO ALTERNATE TESTING METHODS, BASED ON EXTERNAL AND EMBEDDED SENSORS, EXIST IN THE LITERATURE. IF THE SENSORS RESPOND TO THE CHANGES IN THE DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STRUCTURE, AND/OR THE ENVIRONMENT, THEN THEY ARE REFERRED TO "SMART" STRUCTURES. SMART SENSORS AND SMART MATERIALS HAVE BEEN USED FOR DETECTING STRUCTURAL DAMAGES AND/OR CO ...