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MCNC PROPOSES A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND EVALUATION OF THREE PROMISING APPROACHES TO THE FABRICATION OF SURFACE TEST STRUCTURES ON SILICON. SURFACE FEATURES ON THE FIRST STRUCTURE WILL BE PRODUCED BY CONTROLLABLY ETCHING THERMALLYGROWN OXIDES. FEATURES ON THE SECOND WILL BE MADE BY ETCHING PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILMS. USING THE PIEZOELECTRIC FILM AS PART OF A CAPACITOR, STEP-HEIGHT CAN BE VARIED AND PRO ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP DATA COMPRESSIONTECHNIQUES USED TO COMPRESS DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE DATA FROM THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER (NCDC) ARCHIVES SUCH THAT THE RESULTING DATA CAN BE READILY USED WITHIN THE LIMITED RESOURCES OF PC/AT SYSTEMS. THE JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP (JPEG) HAS DEVELOPED ANINTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR THE COMPRESSION OF CONTINUOUS TONE DI ...

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THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EVALUATE THE USE OF FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FTIR) EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY FOR CHARACTERIZING THE DIAMOND THIN FILM DEPOSITION PROCESS WITH IN SITU MEASUREMENTS. AN FTIR SPECTROMETER WILL BE INSTALLED ON A COMMERCIALLY-AVAILABLE DIAMOND REACTOR TO RECORD THE INFRARED RADIATION FROM A SILICON SUBSTRATE PASSING THROUGH A GROWING DIAMOND FILM AND THE REACTIVE PROCESSING ...

A NOVEL GAS SEPARATION METHOD IS PROPOSED BASED ON COMPOSITE MEMBRANE UTILIZING NEWLY DISCOVERED FULLERENES. THIS NEW MEMBRANE WILL ALLOW GAS SEPARATION OVER A WIDE RANGE OF TEMPERATURES WITH EXTREME SELECTIVITY, AND AT HIGHER FLUX THAN PRESENTLY CAN BE ACHIEVED. THE NEW MEMBRANE MATERIAL IS INNOVATIVE. IT INCORPORATES THE KEY FEATURE OF A WELL-DEFINED FULLERENCE PORE STRUCTURE, THE THERMOMECHANIC ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL INVESTIGATE EFFICIENT FRACTAL-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING WIDE AREA SAR IMAGERY OF NATURAL CLUTTER TO SUPPORT WEAPONS SYSTEM TESTING. THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS FIELD HAS DEMONSTRATED THE USE OF FRACTALS FOR RAPIDLY CREATING VISUALLY REALISTIC BACKGROUND SCENES. FOR WEAPON SYSTEM TESTING, HOWEVER, SYNTHETIC DATA MUST ALSO PROVIDE A QUANTITATIVE REPRESENTATION OF THE SCENE ...