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Thermally induced fatigue and residual stress introduced during fabrication are sources of failure in microelectronics, which raises reliability concerns for MDA and its system integrators. CFDRC has teamed with experts in the reliability of microelectronics packaging to develop a physics based modeling and testing protocol to correlate material properties and thermal loading conditions to stress ...

CompuTherm, LLC proposes to develop innovative new generation software based on the CALPHAD method. This new software, named Pandat-Pro, will be built upon CompuTherms current Pandat software. The significant advances of Pandat-Pro are: (1) Bayesian analysis will be introduced to perform error analysis for both the optimized model parameters and the simulated properties; (2) a database management ...

EO/IR sensors can provide high spatial resolution images using multiple frequency bands ranging from the visible to mid-wave IR. EO/IR sensors have been very successful for terrain imaging from subsonic aircraft and from satellites. Imaging using these platforms has been studied extensively. EO/IR sensors can provide high spatial resolution images using multiple frequency bands ranging from the v ...

Random numbers are essential for a growing number of modern applications. As computer speed and communications bandwidth have increased the potential for practical streaming cipher and large-scale Monte Carlo simulations have become technologically feasible. For these and other applications, ultrafast random number generators are essential. This is intuitively clear. Additionally, however, the ide ...

There is an unmet demand for ultra-low-power, ultra-compact and low-cost radios to address emerging sensing and communication needs for military and commercial applications such as IoT/IoE. To overcome the limitations in existing bulky and power hungry radios, we propose a disruptive solution by integration of a nano-scaled THz transceiver, on-chip antenna, and energy harvesting circuits in a form ...

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Airborne-based high-energy-laser (HEL) applications are currently receiving serious consideration for both theater defense and tactical systems operations. One of the most critical shortcomings in these undertakings is the ability to sense and correct foraero-optic distrotions to the exiting beam. While these shortcomings in adaptive-optic correction for aero-optical flow transmission are apparent ...

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The technical objectives of this proposal are: 1) Fabricate and test ridge-guide, quantum-cascade-laser (QCL) devices employing a broad-gain-spectrum active-region design and suitable for incorporation in the designed high-index-contrast (HC) photonic-crystal (PC) THz, difference-frequency-generation (DFG) QCLs ; 2) Fabricate and test large-aperture HC-PC QCL devices suitable for THz generation vi ...

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