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SciTec, Inc. has extensive experience developing robust, signature based autonomous exploitation capabilities for data collected from Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) systems. These signature based capabilities are typically robust because they exploit features with known causal relationships to threat characteristics and behavior, and because they are constructed using rigorous mathematical framewo ...

The following proposal is for the Phase II development of a single laser technology capable of generating deep-ultraviolet (0.193 ~m) and middle-infrared (3-5 ~m) wavelengths. This laser will be based on alexandrite pumped, lithium fluoride color-centerlaser technology successfully demonstrated as part of our Phase I effort (contract # DASG60-97-M-1001).This work will involve collaborations with ...

SMI has discovered a new ferroelectric material, CexMnyO3 (CMO), that, for the first time, will allow nonvolatile ferroelectric memories to be formed directly on silicon - greatly simplifying the cell geometry and thus increasing density and performance -all while eliminating manufacturing steps and thus reducing costs. Heretofore, all ferroelectric memories have required a silicon / ferroelectric ...

In the phase I SBIR program Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) successfully demonstrated that an antimonide-based HBT, with speeds in excess of 100 GHz and near zero turn-on voltage should be achievable. This was done by growing an AlInAsSb layerlattice matched to GaSb with an Al content less than 50%--overcoming the miscibility gap. To our knowledge, such growth has not been previously r ...

The objective of this SBIR program is to develop a production system for producing kilometer or more lengths of superconducting tapes. The tapes are based on superconducting YBa2Cu3Ox thin films, deposited by MOCVD, onto buffer coated metal tapes.Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) is working collaboratively with a leading US superconducting tape manufacturer in this effort (who has and co ...

The primary objective of CU AerospaceOs Phase II engineering work will be to develop all-gas-phase closed-cycle electrically assisted chemical laser COIL (ElectriCOIL) technology. CU Aerospace (CUA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) believe that this challenge can be surmounted with changes to gain generator research including 1) radically new, electrically driven O2(1D) ge ...

The fabrication of large format, highly sensitive focal plane arrays (FPAs) sensing at very long wavelengths in the infrared region (VLWIR), i.e. beyond 15um, is highly desirable for the Air Force's space-based applications. Currently, only limited typesof arrays such as 256 X 256 Si:As are available in this spectral region. However, these extrinsic detectors suffer from several fundamental limita ...

Photon detectors presently available in the very long wave infrared range (lambda > 15 micron) are based on HgCdTe and extrinsic silicon technologies. The former technology suffers from non-uniformity, which is unacceptable for focal plane arrays, whilethe later suffers from an excessive dark current, which requires lowering the operating temperature of these detectors below 20K. At present, the ...

RJM Semiconductor (RJM) with subcontract support of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) propose to demonstrate the world's fastest transistor technology to fabricate power amplifier integrated circuits (ICs) operating above 100GHz to be delivered to MDAand other DoD components in Phase II. This project builds upon RJM expertise in Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth and Heterojunction Bipolar Tr ...

Directed Energy Weapons as well as sophisticated countermeasure systems, require substantially more electrical power than the conventional aircraft power system can currently supply. The cooling required to dissipate the energy is currently not availableon these aircrafts. This solicitation is pursuing a continuous electrical output of 1.0 MW of 3 phase, 110 VAC at 400 Hz, in addition to 800 lbs/ ...