Award Data

N/A

It is the goal of Applied Optronics to develop, fabricate and package antimony alloy diode lasers capable of high power operation at wavelengths between 2 and 5 microns, and to design a practical, high performance master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) device based on antimony alloy diode lasers. In the proposed effort, Applied Optronics will use newly developed aluminum, gallium, and antimony m ...

ACTIVE RADIO FREQUENCY CAVITY (PATENT PENDING0, OR ARFC, IS A CONCEPT WHICH ENABLES THE INTEGRATION OF A LARGE NUMBER OF LOW-POWER TRANSISTERS OR OTHER SOLID STATE DEVICES INTO A RESONANT RF CAVITY, FORMING A MONOLITHIC LIGHT-WEIGHT, HIGH-EFFECIENCY, HIGH-POWER STRUCTURE. THE LOW OPERATING VOLTAGE OF THE ARFC (10S OF VOLTS TO 100+ VOLTS) REDUCES THE COSTS OF HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLIES AND POWER C ...

ELECTROCHROMIC WINDOW MATERIALS WITH LOW POWER CONSUMPTION AND HIGH AND REVERSIBLE CYCLABILITY HAVE RECEIVED MUCH ATTENTION FOR POTENTIAL USES IN ENERGY CONSERVATION AND LIGHTING CONTROL IN COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, HOUSES, AND AUTOMOBILES. IN CONTRAST TO SYSTEMS SUCH AS WO3 (TUNGSTEN TRIOXXIDE), CONDUCTING POLYMERS (CPS) HAVE RECEIVED INCREASING ATTENTION DUE TO THEIR GREATER POTENTIAL FOR TAILORABIL ...

THE COLOR FILTERS CURRENTLY USED TO CONVERT BLACK-AND-WHITE LCD DISPLAYS TO COLOR DISPLAYS SEVERELY LIMIT THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE DISPLAYS BECAUSE AVAILABLE COLOR FILTER MATERIALS (DYES AND GLASSES) ARE INHERRENTLY RATHER BROADBAND. CONSEQUENTLY, IF THEY ARE DENSE ENOUGH TO LIMIT THE TRANSMITTED LIGHT TO A REASONABLY NARROW BAND FOR COLOR PURITY, THEY ALSO CUT DOWN ON THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE TRANSMITT ...

KNbB2O6 (KNB) is a new nonlinear optical material with high optical transparency, large birefringence, large nonlinear optical coefficients and is non-hygroscopic. This material is an excellent potential substitute for LBO in high average power nonlinear optical devices, like third harmonic generation of Nd:YAG and in OPO applications. Small crystals have been grown using the TSSG method, but appl ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS TWO-PHASE PROGRAM IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF MANUFACTURING, CLINICALLY TESTING AND COMMERCIALIZING AN INTRAORAL FLUORIDE-RELEASING SYSTEM (IFRS) FOR-HIGH-CARIES-RISK PATIENTS WHICH IS SUPERIOR TO THE CURRENTLY MARKETED ORAL CARE PRODUCTS. DEMONSTRATION OF PRODUCT UNIFORMITY, FLUORIDE RELEASE AT A CONSTANT RATE, REPRODUCIBILITY OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS ...

III-V compound semiconductors are increasingly in demand for advanced electronic and optoelectronic applications. To keep abreast of the increasing demand for high speed devices, such as HEMTs or FETs, it is imperative for the III-V compound semi- conductor systems producers to make the transition from laboratory to production systems. Two main issues surrounding the epitaxial growth onto large ar ...

Until recently, nearly all of the major work on pseudomorphic HEMTs has been dominated by MBE technology. Low throughput is an inherent problem with MBE equipment. For this reason EMCORE proposes to use its low pressure, high speed, rotating disk MOCVD technology for the deposition of pseudomorphic HEMT structres. The technology is scaleable so that increasing the growth chamber size to accomodate ...

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES FOR NITROGEN OXIDE (NOX) REDUCTION ARE LIMITED BY THE RELATIVELY INERT NATURE OF NITRIC OXIDE (NO). THIS DIFFICULTY CAN BE OVERCOME BY OXIDATION OF NO TO MUCH MORE REACTIVE NITROGEN DIOXIDE (NO2). SINCE FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION SYSTEMS ARE REQUIRED FOR SULFUR DIOXIDE (SO2) REMOVAL AFTER COMBUSTION OF SULFUR CONTAINING FUELS, AND SINCE IT HAS BEEN PROVEN THAT NO2 ...