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RECENT ADVANCES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING (HTSC) THIN FILM TECHNOLOGY ENABLE THE FABRICATION OF LOW-LOSS COMPONENTS THAT WILL IMPROVE THE COST AND PERFORMANCE OF CHANNELIZED RECEIVERS. CHANNELIZED RECEIVERS ARE USED IN SATELLITE TRANSPONDER, ELECTRONIC WARFARE AND ELECTRONICS INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND ARE COMPRISED OF A GROUP OF NARROW BAND RECEIVERS THAT COVER INDIVIDUAL SLOTS IN A ...

SIGNIFICANT SIMPLIFICATION OF MICROWAVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES CAN BE ACHIEVED WITH HTSC DEVICE TECHNOLOGY. ELIMINATION OF THE LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS (LNAS) CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH REPLACEMENT OF THE GAAS PHASE SHIFTERS WITH LOW LOSS HTSC COMPONENTS. A REDUCTION IN COMPLEXITY LOWERS BOTH SYSTEM WEIGHT ANDCOST. KEY TO HTSC TECHNOLOGY INSERTION IN PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS IS THE DE ...

FERROELECTRICS (FE) HAVE A LARGE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL AS PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS, DIELECTRICS FOR CAPACITORS, AND IN OPTICAL GUIDED-WAVE DEVICES. MATERIALS PROCESSING HAS LIMITED APPLICATIONS IN MICROELECTRONICS AND PHOTONICS, HOWEVER, AND FEW METHODS ARE CAPABLE OF DEPOSITING HIGH QUALITY THIN FILMS COMPATIBLE WITH STANDARD SI INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESS TECHNOLOGY. METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPO ...

THIS PROJECT IS PART OF A LONGER TERM EFFORT TO DEVELOP A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT TO ALLOW LARYNGECTOMEES TO REGAIN FULLY NATURAL SPEECH WITH THE SHORTEST REHABILITATION TIME. THE EFFORT TO DATE HAS PRODUCED HARDWARE REPLICATING THE LARYNX FUNCTION IN SPEECH WITH A GOOD QUALITY OF NATURALNESS. THIS PROJECT WILL DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF IMPROVING THE LARYNGECTOMEE'S CONTROL OF THE NEW ARTIFICIAL LAR ...

THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY (ESPI-MS) FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES. AS A METHOD CAPABLE OF DELIVERING EXTREMELY LARGE MOLECULES INTO THE GAS PHASE AS INTACT DESOLVATED MOLECULAR IONIC SPECIES FROM THEIR POLAR SOLVENTS, ESPI-MS HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY EXPLOITEDIN DETERMINING THE MOLECULAR WEIGHTS OF PEPTIDE ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZING A NEWLY DEVELOPED MICROPOROUS MATERIAL FOR VASCULAR PROSTHETIC APPLICATIONS, AND ALSO TO STUDY THE VARIOUS PROCESS PARAMETERS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE END PRODUCT. AN INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORK ("IPN") OF POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE ("PTFE") AND POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE ("PDMS") IS EXPANDE ...

FOR THE EFFICIENT SCREENING OF DRUGS OF ABUSE, SIMPLE BUT UNAMBIGUOUS ANALYTICAL METHODS ARE REQUIRED THAT CAN BE PERFORMED ON SITE. THIS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO DEVELOP AN IMMUNOSENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF DRUGS OF ABUSE. WHILE THEFEASIBILITY STUDIES WILL BE PERFORMED WITH COCAINE AND ITS MAJOR METABOLITE, BENZOYLECGONINE, THE SENSOR CAN BE ADAPTED TO SUBSTANCES FOR WHICH ANTIBODIES ARE AVAILABLE, ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROGRAM WILL BE TO USE AQUEOUS POLYMER TWO-PHASE SYSTEMS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF PROTEIN C FROM HUMAN PLASMA. BOTH PHASES CONTAIN GREATER THAN 80 PERCENT WATER WITH THE UPPER PHASE RICH IN POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG) AND THE LOWER PHASE RICH IN A POLYMER OR SALT. THE EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE WILL BE AIMED AT EXTRACTING PROTEIN C INTO THE TOP PHASE OF AN AQUEOUS TWO-PHASE SYSTEM T ...