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OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, WE HAVE GROWN HIGH QUALITY CVD DIAMOND CRYSTALLITES AS CONFIRMED BY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, X-RAY DIFFRACTION, AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY ON A VARIETY OF SUBSTRATES INCLUDING SILICON USING A LOW TEMPERATURE (

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY IS AN EXCELLENT MEANS FOR NON-CONTACT PROBING OF QUALITY AND TEMPERATURE OF MANY MATERIALS (III-V SEMICONDUCTORS, DIAMONDS, ETC.) WHICH ARE GROWN IN CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (CVD) REACTORS. IT CAN MEASURE COMPOSITION, TEMPERATURE, STRAIN, DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY, AND PRESENCE OF CONTAMINATION EX-SITU. AS AN OPTICAL PROBE IT CAN READILY PENETRATE THE HIGH PRESSURE GASES WHILE A ...

PROPOSED IS A MEANS OF PRODUCING A GENERIC READOUT CIRCUIT FOR INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS (IRFPAS) THAT MAY BE USED WITH ANY INFRARED (IR) DETECTOR, OF ANY SIZE AND ARRAY CONFIGURATION, BY ELIMINATION OF THE INDIUM BUMP BONDS USING A NON-CONTACT ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECT. THE CONCEPT IS THE SOLID STATE EQUIVALENT OF A VIDICOM TUBE USING ELECTRON BEAMS GENERATED BY VACUUM MICROELECTRONICS DEVICES (V ...

DOMAIN ANALYSIS (DA) IS THE FIRST STEP IN SOFTWARE REUSE AS IT PROPOSES A SYSTEMATIC, FORMAL AND EFFECTIVE PRACTICE OF SOFTWARE REUSE. UNFORTUNATELY, THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY IS AT ITS INFANCY STAGE IN DA AND KNOWLEDGE BASE IS NOT READILY AVAILABLE. OUR EXPERIENCE INDICATES HOWEVER, THAT ACQUIRING AND STRUCTURING THE KNOWLEDGE IS THE BOTTLENECK OF DA. DR. RUBEN PRIETO-DIAZ HAS PROPOSED A FORMAL D ...

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP A MULTIPLE WAVELENGTH LASER DIODE BASED ON QUANTUM WELL TECHNOLOGY. THE DEVICE IS BASED ON GALLIUM INDIUM ARSENIC PHOSPHIDE ON AN INDIUM PHOSPHIDE SUBSTRATE. THE MATERIAL COMPOSITION IS TO BE DETERMINED ACCORDING TO THE FORMULA OF 1-X AND 1-Y FOR ALL VALUES OF X AND Y LESS THAN 1.0. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY MATERIALS WHICH WILL PRODUCE SPECIFIC OUTPUT WAVELENGTHS BE ...

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SYSTEMS & PROCESSES ENGINEERING CORPORATION 'SPEC) IS PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A MANEUVER SECURITY EXPERT PLANNING SYSTEM (MSEPS). MSEPS IS A HIGH PAYOFF MINE AND AIR DEFENSE BARRIER CONCEPT THAT ASSISTS COMMANDERS TO PLAN FOR THE SECURITY OF U.S. ARMY AND U.S. MARINE CORPS MANEUVER ELEMENTS, PROVIDING INCREASED ECONOMY OF FORCE AND FLEXIBILITY. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM INTEGRATES A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ...

RECENT SPECTRAL LUMINESCENCE INVESTIGATIONS INDICATE THAT CAMOUFLAGE FABRICS AND PAINTS HAVE UNIQUE SPECTRAL SIGNATURES THAT CAN BE EXPLOITED BY A LASER-INDUCED LUMINESCENCE REMOTE SENSOR. SPEC IS PROPOSING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENE (LIF) LIFETIME SENSOR CAPABLE OF DISCRIMINATING CAMOUFLAGE MATERIALS AND PAINTS IN THE PRESENCE OF BACKGROUND VEGETATION AND SOILS, THUS RENDERING ...

IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, ONTOLOGY IS THE TASK OF EXTRACTING THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF A GIVEN EINGEERING, MANUFACTURING, BUSINESS, OR LOGISTICAL DOMAIN AND STORING IT INAN EXPRESSIVELY RICH, USABLE, COMPUTATIONALLY FEASIBLE REPRESENTATIONAL MEDIUM. AN ARRAY OF ONTOLOGY DATABASES IN USE ACROSS A WIDE VARIETYOF SUCH SYSTEMS WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE TASKS OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A ...