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Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) proposes to develop an all-solid-state, compact, portable, multi-gigawatt poer modulator for electron and ion beam diodes, high power microwave and x-ray sources. This modulator is based on Inductive Energy Store (IES) using an array of Diamond Opening Switches for power compression. Because power amplification using IES requires a much smaller volume ...

Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) proposes to develop a new type of interferometer that is compact and portable and can be used to make in-situ measurements of gases and plasmas. This interferometer uses polarization maintaining optical fibers and diode lasers to duplicate the capabilities of existing Mach-Zender interferometers that use dicrete optical elements such as mirrors, lenses ...

The recent DNA-sponsored conference on ¿Verification and Validation of Nonlinear Structural Dynamic Codes,¿ September 1993, highlighted the need for reliable models as well as codes. At the present time there are no generally available software tools for utilizing experimental data to correct and refine models implemented on general-purpose codes such as DYNA3D. Nor are there tools available f ...

The objective of this program is to develop a silicon-on-insulator technology (SOI) using CVD diamond films as insulators. Such structures should permit the fabrication of integrated circuits with performance capabilities superior to those fabricated using conventional SOI structures including silicon-on-Sapphire (SOS), SIMOX, Epitaxial Layer Overgrowth (ELO) and Bond Etchback SOI (BESOI). Diamond ...

The availability of energy storage capacitors with high energy densities (>1- kJ/kg AND >15 MJ/m3) is critical for many applications. existing capacitor designs use laminated assemblies which are impregnated with liquid dielectrics. However, since the dielectric strength of liquids is generally much less than for solids, the maximum operating electric field is limited by the impregnant. This, in t ...

Present Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) simulators do not include provisions for battle hazards or degrading of weapons system effectiveness due to human response to them. HTI will design an Adaptive Response Filter (ARF) that will add human response degradation to any simulator on the DISNET without requiring any modification to the simulator or to the net. Every entity in a DIS simula ...

The Ktech Team proposes a feasibility study of a fuel/air driven flux compression power unit (FCPU) for electric guns. Through variations of inductance gradients and through changes in scale, the proposed technology will be applicable to both electrothermal/chemical and electromagnetic guns. In the Phase 1 effort, we develop simulation models to predict the performance of the flux compression po ...

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) PRODUCTION LINES OPERATING UNDER MIL-I-38535 HAVE RADIATION HARNESS ASSURANCE (RHA) AND RELIABILITY DESIGNED AND BUILT INTO THEIR TECHNOLOGY. HARDNESS AND RELIABILITY ARE MAINTAINED BY APPLYING STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROLS (SPCS) TO TEST STRUCTURES FABRICATED ALONGSIDE PRODUCT MICROCIRCUITS. MEASUREMENT AND DATA REDUCTION TECHNIQUES PRESENTLY EMPLOYED ARE SLOW AND COSTLY AN ...

PHYSCIAL OPTICS CORPORATION (POC) PROPOSES TO FABRICATE A NUCLEAR HARDENED SCINTILLATING DETECTOR (NHSD) FOR PRECISE DETECTION AND MONITORING OF RADIATION AT CRITICAL LOCATIONS SUCH AS NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, ATOMIC WEAPON PRODUCTION FACILITIES AND NUCLEAR WEAPON TEST SITES. THE PROPOSED NHSD IS BASED ON INTEGRATING ORGANIC FLUOR, SOLGEL TECHNIQUES AND DIAMOND-LIKE COATING TECHNOLOGIES. BY OPTIMIZIN ...

THE DEFENSE NUCLEAR AGENCY (DNA) IS DEVELOPING THE OPERATIONAL MESOSCALE ENVIRONMENT MODEL WITH GRID ADAPTIVITY (OMEGA) TO PREDICT REAL-TIME DISPERSAL OF HAZARDOUS AEROSOLS. ONE REQUIREMENT FOR OMEGA OR ANY SIMILAR MODEL IS TO PREDICT COLLATERAL EFFECTS FROM STRIKES ON NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND CHEMICAL (NBC) FACILITIES. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PHASE I PROGRAM IS TO DETERMINE THE ESSENTIAL FE ...