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BBO AND LBO CLASS MATERIALS WERE STUDIED FOR POSSIBLE APPLICATION AS UV-SENSITIVE PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS. UNDOPED SAMPLES OF BBO AND LBO WERE DOPED BY HIGH TEMPERATURE DIFFUSION WITH VARIOUS TRANSITION METAL SPECIES TO DETERMINE THEIR SUITABILITY FOR STORING HIGH EFFICIENCY HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS. OXIDATION AND REDUCTION HEAT TREATMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT ON THE RESULTING MATERIALS TO OPTIMIZE TH ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a key technology designed to enhance the definition and characterization of oil reservoirs, by using state-of-the-art 3-D prestack depth imaging technology coupled with advanced rock physics principles to produce high-resolution petrophysical and structural information. Briefly stated, this technology will allow oil and g ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A HIGH INTENSITY UV EXCIMER SOURCE FOR THE DEMANDING REQUIREMENTS OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING AND MATERIALS PROCESSING INDUSTRY. EMERGING PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES NOT REQUIRING A COHERENT SOURCE INCLUDING UV WAFER CLEANING AND PHOTO CVD WILL REQUIRE VERY HIGH UV INTENSITIES OVER LARGE AREAS (100 MW/CM2) CURRENTLY ONL ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a sub-micron x-ray tomography scanner capable of providing in-vivo and high resolution images of specimens from mice to bacteria. In this era of molecular medicine, where disease and developmental disorders are being re-defined by their peculiar molecular, genetic or cellular profiles, there exists a signif ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Phase I project proposes to test the feasibility of extended delivery of ciprofloxacin from a novel lipid drug delivery vehicle : the vesosome. Ciprofloxacin is a valuable antibiotic whose therapeutic index would be enhanced with an extended release vehicle. Ciprofloxacin remains stably encapsulated in conventional unilamellar liposomes during storag ...

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION OF SILICON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE (APD) ARRAYS WITH THEIR ASSOCIATED ELECTRONICS IS BEING INVESTIGATED. THE PHOTODIODE ELEMENTS ARE BASED ON THE STATE-OF-THE-ART PROCESS WHICH ACHIEVES UNIFORM BULK BREAKDOWN BY USING NEUTRON TRANSMUTATION DOPED SILICON AND A "BEVELED JUNCTION" TO SUPPRESS SURFACE BREAKDOWN. RESEARCHERS INTEND TO COMBINE THESE PHOTODIODE ARRAYS WITH THEIR REA ...

TO MEET EXISTING AND FUTURE CASTING MANUFACTURING NEEDS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED RAPID METROLOGY (ARM) CAPABILITY FOR INVESTMENT CASTING LAYOUT IS BEING INVESTIGATED. THE APPROACH IS BASED ON THE EXTRACTION OF DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION FROM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) IMAGES OF A PART. A KEY ADVANTAGE OF ARM IS THAT IT RELIES UPON A RADIOGRAPHIC METHOD TO NONDESTRUCTIVELY OBTAIN BOTH EXTERIOR ...

A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A NOVEL ATOMIZER AND ITS ATOMIZATION PROCESS FOR OIL-FIRED BURNER COMBUSTION APPLICATION IS BEING CARRIED OUT. THE ATOMIZER USES THE EFFERVESCENT ATOMIZATION PROCESS TO ACHIEVE GOOD ATOMIZATION WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF AIR. THE RESEARCH PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING EFFORTS: (1) DESIGN CONSIDERATION OF THE NOVEL ATOMIZER; (2) THE EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ATOMIZE ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase (SBIR) I project proposes to develop a sensor system that will overcome many of the current limitations of the public works infrastructure. The design will be based on optimally partitioning the desired system functionality into the various components such that overall the system can achieve the system-level goals of adequate performance and low life-c ...

RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING A TISSUE CULTURE SYSTEM FOR THE NEEM TREE, AZADIRACHTA INDICA, TO PROVIDE A SOURCE OF PURE SECONDARY METABOLITES. THE BEST KNOWN PRODUCT OF THE NEEM TREE IS THE INSECTICIDE, AZADIRACHTIN. THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EXTREME LOW TOXICITY OF THIS COMPOUND HAVE EARNED IT A REPUTATION AS THE BEST BIOPESTICIDE AVAILABLE. AS HARD CHEMICALS ARE BEING REMOVED FROM THE LIST OF EPA A ...