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Not Available Optroceramics hold promise to produce leading edge retromodulators; a critical component for laser communications. In this program, NZ Applied Technologies proposes to demonstrate and fabricate a high performance solid-state modulator possessing high speed, polarization insensitive operation, ceramic ruggedness, low optical loss, and low fabrication cost. The technology is based upo ...

Not Available As aircraft become more sophisticated and the concerns for safety increase, researchers and engineers increasingly rely on aircraft modeling and simulation to perform detailed and analysis prior to and during a flight test program. The key to the fidelity of any simulation is the quality of the underlying aerodynamic database, and while it is relatively straightforward to collect th ...

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Not Available Flight Visions, is a leader in the development of Head-Up Display Systems that are two times more accurate, half the weight and 2/3 the size of competitors HUDs. Considering this, the primary responsibility of this program is to discover a new technology to replace the CRT. Most CRT's are replaced because of degraded brightness. The CRT half-life is normally less than 1000 hours bec ...

Not Available Nanofibers have found a market in filter applications because of their high surface area and ability to effect a large pressure drop over a small thickness. Although their use in filter applications is known, methods to produce large quantities of nanofiber sheets are kept as trade secrets, limiting the progression of this technology into other application areas of interest to the A ...

Not Available With the increasing consumer demand for mobile/portable systems, low power VLSI has gained great importance. A number of circuit level power reduction schemes, including supply/threshold voltage scaling, multiple threshold schemes and selective clocking are available. However, greater power reduction can be achieved only if the problem is approached from a global perspective. This i ...

Not Available The CMC material systems with SOA, performance use Nicalon To fiber and a silicon carbide, SiC, matrix made using CVD or preceramic polymers. The acceptance of these approaches have met a great deal of resistance due to the high cost of the raw materials and processing. Amercom/Synterials has recently been working on a unique approach to a low cost SiC/CMC material by attacking the ...

Not Available While electronic communications have streamlined some knowledge work, they have also added to it by generating more to read. The DOCKET projects will develop a focused email information extraction and monitoring tool that will serve 4 functions: 1. Provide information management tools that extract and visualize entities such as people, places and things, and their relationships to ...

Not Available Unanticipated distortion during the heat treatment of precision steel parts adds significant cost for both commercial and defense suppliers. A collaborative project managed by the National Center for Manufacturing sciences has resulted in the development of a multiphase internal state variable material model and comprehensive phase transformation kinetics models that accurately desc ...