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The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of vacuum micro-packaging for devices such as MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers. Vacuum is critical for high Q-factor, surface-micromachined MEMS. Robust, low-cost solutions are needed for applications such as guided munitions and unattended sensors. Proposed work focuses on long-term reliability issues, such as outgassing, perme ...

Decontamination of military personnel, equipment and facilities that have been exposed to deadly biological and / or chemical warfare agents is of critical concern to U.S. Armed Forces. Conventional technologies used for decontamination and sterilization suffer from drawbacks that include toxic effluents, radiation hazards to personnel, and very long time scales for the decontamination process pr ...

BCL proposes developing an Adaptive Personal Assistant (APA) to assist professionals dramatically improve productivity of office automation tasks. The APA will take normal spoken English requests and perform tasks such as electronic mail, meeting coordination, and flight scheduling, and then adapt and optimize the output according to the user's preferences. In addition, the system will take the ...

The Computer Department Limited (CDL) proposes to develop a portable, rotary wing platform for use as a universal lifting body for small payloads. This system will use a novel lifting system to operate with a wide range of payloads under a wide spectrum of environmental conditions. The key elements of this system is a light weight collapsable structure, electric propulsion, rotary wing design fo ...

The objective of this effort is to develop a generic process for mechanically grafting MEMS devices onto an arbitrary substrate. Such a process will enable the production of smart sensors and actuators without the device limitations imposed by combined MEMS/CMOS processing. Thinning of the MEMS substrate coupled with wafer-scale handling of discrete MEMS devices on an intermediate carrier substr ...

The Environmental Engineering Group (EEG), Inc. in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) proposes to develop a novel magnetic and chemical microsensor for in-situ, real-time detection, and unattended use. We envision a micro-system built around a single type of micro-structure element integrating a monolithic optical system and electronics package. We will integrate into th ...

Perceptronics and its team members Moller International and Flyer Group will design a complete elevated sensing system for forward-deployed combat units. The system, called COVER (Commander's Observation Vehicle for Elevated Reconnaissance), features an existing compact, electrically-tethered, ducted-fan lifting vehicle (Aerobot) mated to an existing highly-mobile, transportable vehicle (Flyer II ...

An efficient blue laser concept is proposed based on two-photon upconversion of diode laser near-IR radiation into the blue in a doped-crystal fiber. The upconversion process offers certain performance advantages not readily realized from a system containing nonlinear elements, such as resistance to damage and more relaxed requirements on the laser medium. With thulmium as the doping ion, wavelen ...

There is a great deal of interest in the development of new laser materials. We propose to introduce a new powerful technique, combinatorial synthesis, to investigate new laser materials with multidopants. Two independent variables, the dopants and their concentrations, are deposited in a multilayer system with the host crystal components. The proposed dopants will be Cr, Ho, Er and Tm while th ...

The proposed project will improve the existing methodologies to protect non-human pancreatic islets from the immunologically-different host. Encapsulating the living islets in a protective membrane would allow insulin to be secreted, yet prevent the immune system from rejecting the islet. The lack of success of such transplanted islets inside the peritoneal cavity is now considered to be due to ...