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"On this Phase I program, Advanced Ceramics Research Inc. (ACR) will develop and commercialize technology to fabricate structural components with increased thermal capacities at relatively low cost. This effort will have two major focus areas: (1) work onour Fibrous Monolith (FM) composite processing to develop a new generation of low-cost damage tolerant ceramic-matrix composites with improved p ...

"In this phase I SBIR program, a team consisting of Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (ACR) and the University of Delaware (UD) propose the development of an innovative process for novel, high temperature non-eroding nozzle designs with an in-situ insulationlayer. This novel design concept will be fabricated using a patented technology at UD. The ceramic material will be structurally sound and toug ...

"The high accuracies required by hit-to-kill interception places severe demands on interceptor maneuverability and flight control time response when engaging targets that are maneuvering either intentionally or unintentionally. A well-known guidance law foruse against a maneuvering target is augmented proportional navigation (APN). It has been recently demonstrated that the limitations of APN can ...

"Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (ACR) proposes to design and develop novel micro-filament composite structures for fabrication of improved thermal shock and damage tolerant small diameter propulsion components. These parts are typically wound uniaxially,which allows only one plane of crack deflection using conventional FM filament. ACR will conduct a study to evaluate the material properties o ...

"In this Phase I SBIR program, a team consisting of Advanced Ceramics Research Inc. (ACR) and the University of Arizona (UA) propose to develop a novel, low-cost, integrated micro-channeled heat exchanger system for high power electronic applications suchas that for space, high-speed missiles, and other weapon systems. The increased power density for these applications result in demanding conditi ...

"This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project develops tunable dispersion compensators by planar glass waveguide technology. The buried ion-exchanged waveguides we propose to use enable the fabrication of low-loss waveguides with very lowbirefringence. The process is extremely simple and reproducible, which will facilitate the low-cost production of devices. The proposed design will ...

"This SBIR Phase I project focuses on the implementation of a new THz module that can emit coherent and tunable THz waves. Recently, coherent THz radiation was generated at room temperature by PI, with a tuning range of 56.8-1618 ¿m (5.27 - 0.18 THz), inGaSe based on difference-frequency generation. The peak THz power can be as high as 69.4 W at 196 ¿m. The corresponding photon conversion effici ...

"The objective of this proposal is to design and manufacture a window glass material for high power transmission with approximately zero optical path difference (OPD) for MDA's Airborne Laser (ABL), a high power chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) at 1.315¿m. The ideal window glass material must exhibit a zero Optical Path Difference (OPD) across the window that is being heated unevenly by the hi ...

"Currently used polymeric composites in space thermal management suffer from high cost, low thermal conductivity and CRe mismatch with metallic housing. A novel hybrid carbon-carbon (C-C) composite/graphite foam approach is proposed. C-C composite offersstructural requirements, while foam provides additional thermal performance and low modules for the strain isolation with metallic housing. Up t ...

"AlON is a covalent bond material, which requires a sintering aid for liquid phase sintering. To minimize the IR scattering, the sintering aid has to be minimized. In order to overcome the very little amount of sintering aid, the sintering time andsintering temperature have to be increased so that the final sintered part can reach full density. The high temperature and long sintering time increa ...