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"Low-resistance high-surface-area electrodes, and tunable potential window through band gap tuning of electrode materials are key to achieving high performance capacitors. We have synthesized ordered intrinsically conducting polymers with high surface areaand copper-like conductivity using a proprietary process. Our assessment in this feasibility study, through extensive characterization of numero ...

CRYOCOOLER MICROELECTROMECHANICAL MICRODYNAMICS INTEGRATED GENERAL PNEUMATICS CORP'S PRELIMINARY DESIGN FOR EMPLOYING MICRODYNAMICS TO PRODUCE MICROELECTROMECHANICAL CLOSED-CYCLE CRYOCOOLERS USING SILICON PROCESSING TECHNIQUES WILL BE USED FOR MAKING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IN PHASE 1. MICROMINIATURE COOLERS WILL BE INTEGRATED AT THE WAFER SCALE WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF SENSORS AND OTHER COLD ELECTRONIC ...

THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A PROCESS GROW DEVICE QUALITY Si-Ge-C STRAIN LAYERS HETEROEPITAXIALLY ONTO SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON SUBSTRATES. Si-Ge-C ALLOYS WILL MAKE POSSIBLE A NEW CLASS OF HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES IN WHICH THE BANDGAP CAN BE TAILORED TO BE WIDER OR NARROWER THAN SILICON, AND IN WHICH PARTIAL OR COMPLETE STRAIN COMPENSATION IS POSSIBLE. INITIAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT W ...

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Global production and use of ceramic capacitors exceeds several hundred million units per day. With the projected growth in demand for more demanding electronic products, electronic vehicles and related technologies, the need for more reliable, higher energy density, higher power density, higher breakdown strength, efficient ceramic capacitors can not be overstated. Multilayered ceramic capacitors ...

The very high cost of forming finished parts from advanced engineering ceramics severely limits their widespread use. Superplastic forming can help address this technology barrier. Unfortunately, until recently, nothing could be done to induce superplasticity in ceramics. This program will utilize recent breakthroughs that now reproducibly suggest the potential of superplastic forming. It is ant ...

Parallax Research Inc. proposes to develop practical collimating optics for soft x-ray lasers and elemental analyses applications. Although there is no new physics involved in the operation of these optics, the ability to fabricate them economically is a recent innovation. These optics are intended to accept broad energy bandwidths of low energy x-rays diverging from a small source and re-direct t ...

We propose to develop a battery powered portable monitoring system capable of collecting and analyzing gamma spectra for specific radionuclides in the field. The system will consist of a high resolution cadmium telluride array detector and a small multichannel analyzer and data logger. The proposed monitoring system builds upon the design of the Ludlum Model 2350 Data Logger which is quite rugge ...

Power electronic and pulse power applications for land based and airborne systems require capacitors with increasingly higher energy and power density that can withstand higher operating and process tempertures. Electrochemical double layer and metal oxide capacitors can satisfy many of the energy density speccifications but due to high ESRs their power density is 100-1000 times lowe than require ...

Advanced fuels and oxidizers, based on innovative nanotechnology prod cts and techniques are expected to supplant traditional solid and hybrid fuels, including aluminized fuels, commonly used in rocket propellant formulations. The aluminum metal is a stable low cost fuel that increases specific impulse and burn stability, but also introduces several undesirable effects primarily attributable to mo ...