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The enabling solid state semiconductor technology in modern electronics and radar systems increases their vulnerability to the effects of high power, fast rise-time EMP, HPM, and UWB pulses. In recent years, significant advances in the technology used to produce these pulses have been made in the United States and abroad, increasing the need for effective protection against these threats. Howeve ...

Active Signal, Moog, and Cornell University propose to develop and demonstrate a full-scale, benchtop-integrated, high-speed digital servovalve for use in adaptive structural control schemes that employ distributed actuation. Today’s servovalves are expensive and low bandwidth because the mechanism and its labor-intensive fabrication processes remain largely unchanged since the product was intr ...

The SAVe II life support mechanical ventilator proposed in phase II will meet all of the needs for modern ventilation on the battlefield and any pre-hospital environment where ease of use, size, cost , safety and functionality is critical. Currently there are no commercial mechanical ventilators that will meet the specifications of this design based on the needs of the Tactical Combat Casualt ...

During the proposed phase I research program, Brimrose will develop and produce an improved material for optical power limiting to protect against jamming and build a prototype of this device. Using vanadium doped zinc telluride, we will fabricate an electro-optic power limiter (EOPL) that operates at visible wavelengths. The approach of using a doped II-VI semiconductor for power limiting was p ...

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has shown great promise for applications in chemical, biological and explosive (CBE) sensing [1-12]. Nearly all previous LIBS experiments were limited to measurements in the UV-VIS and NIR. However, molecules exhibit spectroscopic signatures in the MIR to FIR wavelength region from vibrational and rotational transitions. Therefore, an extension of LIBS t ...

We plan to develop unique CAD design tools, which facilitate the design of 3D integrated circuits and circuit elements, as well as tools to predict the parasitic effects resulting from 3D integration. These CAD tools will use novel techniques to simultaneously simulate the temperature distribution and heating in a 3D IC and its effect on circuit performance; an efficient impulse response method to ...

Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) are among the most poisonous substances known. Although production and dissemination of pure toxin is not trivial, it is highly feasible, making BoNT a potentially devastating bioweapon. Four serotypes A, B, E and F cause illness in humans. At present, the only method that is used with confidence to detect BoNT is the acute toxicity test performed with mi ...

DAMILIC and others have already demonstrated that EB cured composite structures have mechanical properties comparable to those of a standard thermally cured part. The objective of this Phase I program has is to demonstrate that standard, commercially available, resin transfer molding techniques can be combined with the high speed electron beam process to produce maritime structures and higher spe ...

Currently available methods for object recognition and classification primarily rely on static information in single-frame images. However, for the combat aerial video (usually low resolution video), all the static indexes used for object classification and recognition are almost impossible to obtain. To address this challenge, researchers are particularly interested in developing new techniques t ...

DRT will perform an investigation to identify a feasible design approach for a handheld threat warning and communications radio through the use of reconfigurable software radio techniques. Design aspects for the RF, digital, and power supply elements will undergo careful study in orer to identify customized integrated circuits that will minimize size, weight, and power consumpion. The aspects of ...