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116 High Brightness LEDs based on the (Al, Ga,In)N Materials System--Advanced Technology Materials, Inc., 7 Commerce Drive, Danbury, CT 06810-4131; Dr. Karim Boutros, Principal Investigator Dr. Duncan W. Brown, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82319 Amount: $75,000 Based on a combination of physical, electronic and optical properties, the semiconductor materials system (aluminum, g ...

76 Micromachined SiC Sensors For Harsh Environment Applications--Advanced Technology Materials, Inc., 7 Commerce Drive, Danbury, CT 06810-4131; (203) 794-1100 Dr. Gary M. Smith, Principal Investigator Dr. Duncan W. Brown, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82317 Amount: $75,000 Many industries are increasing their use of environmental sensors to improve system efficiency, safety, and ...

40246 November 6, 1996 Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. Advanced thermal coating materials are being developed for use in the combustor section of high performance turbine engines. To optimize their use, accurate surface temperature measurements are required in order to understand the response of these coatings to changes in the combustion environment. P ...

40255 November 6, 1996 Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. Silicon avalanche photodiodes (APD) have been studied extensively as a photodetector candidate for the electromagnetic calorimeter readout of the compact muon solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The present detectors under consideration do not provide satisfactory combination of ...

65 Production of High Performance BSCCO-2223 Tapes Using Hydrostatic Pressure--American Superconductor Corporation, Two Technology Drive, Westborough, MA 01581-1727; (508) 836-4200 Dr. Lawrence J. Masur, Principal Investigator Mr. Ramesh Ratan, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82322 Amount: $75,000 The discovery of high temperature superconductivity (HTS) in the late 1980's led to ...

64 Low Cost Deposition of Buffer Layers for Manufacturable YBCO HTS Conductors--American Superconductor Corporation, Two Technology Drive, Westborough, MA 01581-1727; (508) 836-4200 Dr. Martin W. Rupich, Principal Investigator Mr. Ramesh Ratan, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82324 Amount: $75,000 Recent advances in the deposition of Yttrium Barium Copper Oxygen (YBCO) films have ...

169 Controlled Processing for High-Performance Fine Filament Bi-2223 Conductors--American Superconductor Corporation, Two Technology Drive, Westborough, MA 01581-1727; (508) 836-4200 Dr. Gilbert N. Riley, Jr., Principal Investigator Mr. Ramesh Ratan, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82321 Amount: $75,000 High-temperature superconducting wire technology is a basic building block t ...

40771 November 13, 1996 American Superconductor Corporation Current state-of-the-art Bi-2223 powder-in-tube HTS composite conductors have achieved performance levels which are rapidly approaching the requirements for many low field applications. However, the utilization of these Bi-2223 composite conductors in applications such as motors and generators (i ...

40818 November 13, 1996 American Superconductor Corporation Commercialization of high temperature superconductors (HTS) conductors requires increases in overall current density (Je) and reductions in cost. The process steps involve shaping and cutting monofilament material, rebundling it into a multifilament array, and processing the multifilament to an ...

40 High Growth Rate Cubic Boron Nitride Deposition--Applied Science and Technology, Inc., 35 Cabot Road, , Woburn, MA 01801-1003; (617) 937-5135 Dr. Roy Gat, Principal Investigator Mr. John M. Tarrh, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82327 Amount: $74,867 There is a great need for hardened surfaces to minimize corrosion, a major source of energy loss, in a number of areas of interes ...