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Events including the Oklahoma CIty bombing and the Sarin attack in the Tokyo subway have emphasized the vulnerability of personnel, both military and civilian, to unexpected attack with conventional explosives and chemical substances. To combat this threat requires portable, low cost sensor systems capable of detecting a variety of dangerous materials at extremely low concentrations. Such a tech ...

Images are two dimensional and the world is three dimensional. This fundamental difference greatly limits the utility of image processing in many potential applications. Intelligent Automation has designed and is currently building an entirely new type of electronic camera. Our camera will generate 3 dimensional images in real-time. By "3 Dimensional Image" we mean that the value of each pixel in ...

During the proposed phase I research program, Brimrose will develop and produce an improved material for optical power limiting to protect against jamming and build a prototype of this device. Using vanadium doped zinc telluride, we will fabricate an electro-optic power limiter (EOPL) that operates at visible wavelengths. The approach of using a doped II-VI semiconductor for power limiting was p ...

Microwave resonators of linear dielectrics for wireless applications have been fabricated in bulk form using conventional ceramic processing in the current commercial market. Machining and fine polishing are frequently required for dimension control and surface finish in addition to the inherent unfeasibility to fabricate miniaturized electronic circuits. It is vital to develop a suitable thin f ...

The world around us is three dimensional (3D), yet most existing cameras and display systems handle only two dimensional (2D) flat images that lack the depth information. This fundamental restriction greatly limits the capability of human being in perceiving and understanding the complexity of real world objects. The primary objectives of this proposed Phase I SBIR work are two- folds: (1) to st ...

Many of the solid-state chemical microsensors, including surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices and the organic or inorganic semiconductors, are ideally suited as sensors for on-chip chemical analysis systems as they are inherently very small, low power and readily manufactured by photolithographic techniques. The major technical problems associated with the development of integrated chemical micros ...

In future military and commercial communication infrastructures, there is a growing need to handle high density packaging problems, dispersion, losses and multireflections, associated with signal lines carrying short pulses. High temperature superconducting (HTS) thin film technology has reached a stage where it is now feasible to combine HTS thin film passive components with various active and p ...

There is a significant market for magnetoresistive sensors as read heads for ultra high density magentic information storage, with potentially large defense and commercial applications. The recently discovered colossal magentoresistance (CMR) effects in (La, Ca) Mn O3 abd related manganite oxide systems indicate a good potential for such applications. The maximum magnetoresistance achievable ina ...

The Welch Engineering and Hughes Space and Communications (WE/HSC) team is pleased to propose a universal Inertial Navigation System (INS) enabled by Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. We will leverage Welch Engineering's expertise in inertial navigation system software design for space and ground applications and HSC's extensive internal MEMS R&D and several of its MEMS research p ...

An integrated system design approach will be pursued which considers the important aspects for scalable fault tolerant computing. An architecture approach, using selective separation of fault tolerant services from application and COTS components will provide transparency and interoperability among heterogeneous components. Real-time services and policy driven configuration and control will be s ...