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Under Phase I effort, Applied Thin Films, Inc. (ATFI) discovered a new process to deposit oxide buffer layers for HTS coated conductors that is economical, scalable, and has demonstrated excellent performance with YBCO films (current densities of 1MA/cm2). The process is called ECONO (Epitaxial Conversion to Oxide via Nitride Oxidation) which is now being considered as the primary contender for t ...

Caviton has developed a new generation of microsensors utilizing microdischarge based emission spectroscopy. The microdischarge plasma is well suited for emission spectroscopy of gases introduced into the discharge, at atmospheric pressure. An opticalfiber near the discharge couples the light from the discharge to a small spectrometer, and a computer for analysis. The properties of these device ...

The Phase II project will address enhancing ATR by developing techniques that use single and fused remotely sensed data sets to precisely characterize terrain environments, areas of potential trafficability, and areas of EOC clutter that can be ignored bythe ATR algorithms. These precision EOC identification and clutter-removal processes can be utilized as (1) a pre-ATR (terrain/ target potential ...

Composites are used in the F/A 18 which has 50% of its skin in composite material. Other planes with high composite usage are the F-18, the B-1B bomber, F-14A, F-a6 and Navy V-22. The use of composites in airplane components provides significant weightreduction (40%) over metals. Reliability, in an all-composite airplane component, relates to the ability to eliminate damage before it can lead to c ...

The micronization of spacecraft and satellite propulsion systems (size, weight, and power) will require an equivalent reduction in pulsed power unit (PPU) support hardware. There are scaling limitations in current solid-state PPUs in terms of sourcecurrent and response time. Recent advances in pseudospark technology show promise for miniaturization. Starfire Industries envisions shrinking the P ...

A critical problem in the defense and commercial communities is to understand network data in general, and network performance in particular. Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in the amount of networks and traffic, as well as ourdependence on their efficient operation. Concurrently with this huge growth in networks, there has also been a massive increase in computer graphics ca ...

A critical problem for military commanders and decision makers is to understand all of the relevant factors that must go into the assessment of a battle field situation. This problem is made exponentially more difficult by the fact that so many of thosefactors have an associated uncertainty level, which may or may not be known a priori. Creating effective visual tools for intuitively conveying t ...

"A method for generating a high power, continuous wave (cw) monolithic micro-laser with rapidly tunable, narrow linewidth output is proposed. The concept employs a semiconductor laser coupled to an electro-optically controlled Bragg waveguide in PotassiumTitanyl Phosphate (KTP) providing single frequency output. Frequency tuning is achieved by applying a voltage across the waveguide, thereby cha ...

"Microdischarge based chemical sensing is a novel detection scheme that relies on extremely sensitive emission spectroscopy, without the need for expensive plasma sources and vacuum systems required in large scale plasmas. This technique provesparticularly powerful for metals detection due to strong emission spectra from metals in a discharge. Additionally, the sensors presented are small, rugge ...

"Microdischarge based chemical sensing is a novel detection scheme that relies on extremely sensitive emission spectroscopy, without the need for expensive plasma sources and vacuum systems required in large scale plasmas. This technique has a broad rangeof capabilities due to its universal detection capabilities for small molecules. Additionally, these sensors are small, rugged, and require very ...