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AS THE DIMENSIONS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES APPROACH ATOMIC SCALES, A RANGE OF NEW QUANTIZIED PHENOMENA APPEAR. ONE SUCH EFFECT, COULOMB BLOCKADE, REPRESENTS A FRONTIER AREA OF RESEARCH IN APPLIED NANOSCIENCE. HOWEVER, DIFFICULTIES IN FABRICATING DEVICES SMALL ENOUGH TO DEMONSTRATE QUANTUM BEHAVIOR HAVE RESTRICTED PROGRESS IN THIS FIELD. DURING PHASE 1, AVOCA LABORATORIES PROPOSES TO DESIGN AND FABRIC ...

CURRENT SMOKE DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES SUFFER FROM SIGNIFICANT FALSE ALARM RATES. THESE PROBLEMS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ADDRESSED BY REDUCING THE SENSITIVITY OF EXISTING PARTICULATE DETECTORS. IN THIS WORK, THE FEASIBILITY OF A COMBINED PARTICULATE AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR WILL BE EVALUATED. THE USE OF MULTIPLE FIRE SIGNATURES HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR REDUCING THE FALSE ALARM PROBLEMS WHILE INCREASING ...

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST) HAS UNDERTAKEN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE SOLID STANDARDS AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETERS. THIS EFFORT, COUPLED WITH RECENT ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS FOR REGRESSION MODEL TRANSFER, HAS CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARD CALIBRATION MODELS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH FOCUSES ON TH ...

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING (HTSC) FILMS HAVE A LARGE POTENTIAL AS DETECTORS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION. TO BE USEFUL FOR TRANSFER STANDARD RADIOMETERS, IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE HTSC FILM QUALITY SHOULD BE VERY HIGH, BOTH FROM THE VIEW POINTS OF STRUCTURE AND SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES. A MAJOR TASK, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE HIGH SENSITIVITY, FAST RESPONSE, LOW NOISE LEVELS, AND UNIFORM SPECTRAL ...

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FOR A USER TO ORDER SATELLITE IMAGE DATA SETS FROM THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER INTELLIGENTLY AND RELIABLY, HEMUST VERIFY THAT THE DATA SET COVERS HIS REGION OF INTEREST AND IS FREE ENOUGH FROM CLOUD COVER TO BE USEABLE. TO SOLVETHIS PROBLEM, WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE WHICH INTERFACES TO AN INEXPENSIVE GRAPHICS BOARD TO DISPLAY SATELLITE ORBITS ON A M ...

THE PROPOSED PROGRAM INVLOLVES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BREAD- BOARD 2.1 MICRON LIDAR AEROSOL PROFILER AND MEASUREMENTS OF AEROSOL BACKSCATTER. THE LIDAR WILL UTILIZE A NEW AND UNIQUE, ROOM TEMPERATURE, EYE-SAFE HOLMIUM LASER COMMERCIAL-LY SOLD BY SCHWARTZ ELECTRO-OPTICS (SEO). THIS EFFICIENT, SOLID STATE LASER IS BASED UPON A PROPRIETARY HOLMIUM: YSGG CRYSTAL DEVELOPED BY SEO AND CURRENTLY IS THE ON ...

HYPRES PROPOSES A PROGRAM TO DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND MANU- FACTURE A HIGHLY ACCURATE, RELIABLE, MODULAR AND MODERAGE COST VOLTAGE STANDARD UTILIZING JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAYS/. THIS PROJECT WILL DRAW FROM EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE ESTABLISHED THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WIDE BANDWIDTH COMMERCIAL PRODUCT (THE PSP-1000) ALSO BASED ON NB JUNCTION TECHNOLOGY. COST EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS PROJECT STEMS FROM ...