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The proposed research will demonstrate the feasibility of using a novel physical vapor deposition (PVD) technique for bulk growth of aluminum nitride(AlN). We have developed a sputter source which demonstrates the high growth rates needed for growing bulk aluminum nitride. In comparison with other bulk growth processes this novel PVD process has the advantages of a controlled processing environmen ...

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Chemically synthesized quantum dots with an emphasis on Gallium Nitride are used in conjunction with polymeric dielectrics to make thin film materials for coated layers on bulk semiconductor substrates such as Silicon wafers. The layers supply high performance radiation sensing crystalline semiconductor materials to the surface of standard Silicon ICs. Multiple bands may be sensed by mixing and ma ...

The growing market for repositioning small satellites requires the development of flexible, energy-efficient, robust but microweight thrusters. Microthruster concepts are scaledowns of conventional thruster designs to very small physical scale, e.g., chemical rockets, pulsed gas thrusters and plasmajets. However, behavior of at small scales is not predicted by behavior at larger scales. We propose ...

Current off-the-shelf Windows-based software/hardware data acquisition and control (DAC) systems are relatively slow, inflexible, and incapable of driving high speed, multi-channel systems. The proposed product will advance this technology through the development of an innovative, Windows-based Graphic User Interface (GUI) and required PC-resident module interfaced with a VXI chassis containing s ...

Time Domain Corporation proposes novel devices for achieving second harmonic generation in Laser Systems. The result will be a micro-size, layered, periodic, Semiconductor structure or a fiber Bragg grating that will perform several orders of magnitude better than devices in use today. Most second harmonic crystals that are currently used are of millimeter=size or greater. The simple design of ...

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