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Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation proposes to develop and test a capillary discharge source of KCl as an alternative to Ar gas puffs for Decade Quad. The innovative feature of such a capillary source is that the initial z-pinch load is highly ionizedand well collimated, as demonstrated earlier with a NaF source on Gamble II and Double-EAGLE (DE). Consequently, the stability and radiation effici ...

Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) proposes to adapt a commercially available instrument called a Laser Wavefront Analyzer (LWA) to capture snap-shots of the current and density in the initial coronal region of an imploding z-pinch on the 0.7 MAHawk accelerator at NRL. These snap-shots will reveal the structure of instabilities in the formation of the pinch and allow us to correlate impro ...

A six-month Phase I project is proposed to demonstrate the feasibility of a hierarchical method for more accurately estimating the material parameters of constitutive models in DYNA3D, thereby enhancing the fidelity of nonlinear finite element models. Thehierarchical approach combines the distinct advantages of coupon, component and system-level testing with Bayesian statistical parameter estimat ...

BMDO and the Services have the requirement to certify some of their military assets as being survivable against the effects of prompt X-rays from nuclear weapons. This certification is generally accomplished by a combination of testing the assets directlyfor their survivability at DTRA's X-ray simulators, and by modeling and simulation. Both the development of X-ray simulators and benchmarking com ...

For the next generation imaging equipment, CdZnTe/CdTe sensors are urgently needed unless a new semiconductor can be found. This Small Business Innovation Research project addresses the issues which prevent the wide applications of CdZnTe for roomtemperature radiation detection. The scientific approach of this project is to introduce an appropriate amount of deep-level defects or impurities to ...

Locating and discriminating explosions from earthquakes become progressively moredifficult as magnitude decreases. We can no longer rely on teleseismic identificationfor events at about Mw

The proposed effort will develop and demonstrate an imbedded protection technique for integrated electromagnetic protection of military systems and COTS equipment. The proposed imbedded protection technique will apply to all electromagnetic environmentsbut this research effort will focus on mitigating high altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) and high power microwave (HPM) effects. Under Phase ...

Mission Research Corporation (MRC) proposes to develop and demonstrate a unique solution to SEE (Single Event Effect) problems which result in data loss in deep submicron microcircuits in space radiation environments. As circuit fabrication feature sizesdecrease, SEE related upsets (which increase as the square of the inverse feature size) represent the radiation-induced hazard most difficult to ...

The highest density radiation hardened non-volatile (NV) memory currently available is a 256 kbit EEPROM based on SONOS technology. One of the major limitations in developing rad hard NV memory has been the cost involved bringing up the NV technology in adedicated rad hard process facility, especially when weighed against the limited market size. One way to bring radiation hardening to an advanc ...

Many NMD and TMD radar algorithms are designed with inherent assumptions about the amplitude statistics of the radar returns from objects under observation. These algorithms include mission critical bulk filtering and classification algorithms. In awartime environment, the observed amplitude fluctuations will be due not only to fluctuations in the target radar cross section (RCS), which the rada ...