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The research proposed here is built on the recent successful fabrication of metal oxide semiconductor heterjunction field effect transistors (MOS-HFETs) based on AlGaN/GaN heterostructures with very high drain-current-driving and gate-control capabilitiesas well as unprecedented high breakdown voltages by the P.I.s research group at Kansas State University. III-nitride HFETs have great promises i ...

This SBIR effort will develop advanced mode-matching structures for highly efficient electro-optic amplitude modulators in potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP). The intended application for these modulators is in intra-satellite fiber-optic data buses andother satellite communication and data-handling systems. The overall goal of this effort is the fabrication of electro-optic modulators featuring l ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes to investigate the feasibility of fabricating large-aperture, periodic ferroelectric domain gratings for quasi-phase matched laser frequency conversion. The key innovation in this effort is the use of low temperature hydrothermally grown potassium titanyl phosphate (LTH-KTP) as the nonlinear optical substrate material. Using L ...

To develop algorithms, software, and/or hardware necessary to collect, process, and fuse information from multiple sensors based on multiple platforms (XBR, SBIRS, EKV, UEWR) in real time in order to improve acquisition, tracking and discrimination ofthreat objects in a cluttered environment, advanced sensor fusion techniques will be investigated. Automated abductive inference (best-explanation re ...

Applied Optimization proposes a new midcourse discrimination algorithm to identify a RV, which is concealed in a balloon, from an empty decoy balloon, for the situation of daytime missile attack. The algorithm is based on a calculation that a sunlitballoon, when vented, will collapse by over fifty percent of its size within two minutes, due to solar radiation pressure. We show that a baseline deco ...

Under this Phase I SBIR program, Applied Sciences, Inc., will exploit the unique properties of its low-cost carbon nanofibers to create and test coating materials to shield against electromagnetic interference (EMI). The coatings will be comprised ofversions ASI's low-cost carbon nanofiber, PyrografO-III, or blends of nanofiber and metal particulate, in a variety of possible matrix materials, but ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a self-sensing piezoelectric actuator. The piezoelectric actuator will act at the same time as the sensor that will provide information to the actuators and as its own actuator. No separate sensor is needed. The self-sensing piezoelectric actuator uses an unconventional impedance approach for both dynamic (AC) and static (DC) ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a ceramic hydrogen fuel appliance (CHFA) using ceramic microreactor modules (CMMs) using a low-cost, net-shape manufacturing process, and a new material, that was developed in the Phase I project. The new material developed was demonstrated to have excellent capability for cost-effective microfabri ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a ceramic hydrogen fuel appliance (CHFA) using ceramic microreactor modules (CMMs) using a low-cost, net-shape manufacturing process, and a new material, that was developed in the Phase I project. The new material developed was demonstrated to have excellent capability for cost-effective microfabri ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 project will develop novel devices capable of actively cooling high power electronics using ceramic micro-channel evaporatos. Microelectronics with demanding thermal management characteristics are usedpredominantly as microprocessors and power electronics (HDTV modules, higher power logic and power transmit/receive). The number of microprocessors so ...