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MAKING ACCURATE AUTOMATED ON-WAFER MEASUREMENTS OF MILLIMETER-WAVE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND CIRCUIT ELEMENTS IS A FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF A MILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY. MILLIMETER-WAVE WAFER PROBE DEVELOPMENT IS REQUIRED. PRESENTLY ON-WAFER PROBING IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO 26.5 GHZ. HOWEVER, SIGNIFICANT INNOVATIONS ARE REQUIRED TO EXTEND THIS CAPABILITY OF HIGHER FREQUENCIES. TH ...

ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO INTRINSIC CONFLICTS FOR THE SAME MATERIAL SYSTEMS TO ACHIEVE BOTH THE RADAR ABSORPTION AND THERMAL SUPPRESSION CHARACTERISTICS THERE EXISTS NO COMMERCIAL PRODUCT THAT HAS THE DESIRED DUAL PROPERTIES. A THEORETICAL CALCULATION ON THE FEASIBILITY OF SEVERAL PROPOSED MATERIAL SYSTEMS WILL BE PERFORMED. THE CALCULATIONS ARE BASED ON A MEAN FIELD THEORY FOR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES. ...

A novel and promising solution for hands - and eyes-free voice interface for point-of-care data entry is proposed. The solution consists of the following major modules: a recently-developed noise-reduction microphone, a Bluetooth earphone, an automatic speech recognizer, a text-to-speech synthesizer, and a dialogue manager. To make the developed system useful in combat environments, we emphasize o ...

The overall objective of this proposal is to characterize the molecular mechanism by which variable frequency microwave technology (VFM) inactivates bacterial spores. The long-term practical goal is to produce a device capable of eliminating contamination by microbial/viral/biological based biological warfare bioterrorism agents. Considerable scientific uncertainty exists regarding the molecular ...

The purpose of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasiblity of innovative extentions to the use of Mobile IPv6 to allow US Army legacy tactical devices to interoperate in the new IPv6 mobile networks being deployed. The Army is planning the migration of its core network to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over the next several years as part of its Global Information Grid (GIG) expansion. The ...

Hood Technology, along with its partner Williams International, propose to develop, test and supply a Non-Intrusive Stress Measurement System (NSMS) designed specifically for small turboshaft engines. This system will address the issues of these small engines at the sensor, acquisition and software levels, providing a non-proprietary, commercial-based NSMS system tailored for this class of powerp ...

Accurate rotorcraft performance prediction is essential to both the design and development of rotorcraft, and also the support of flight testing, establishing of safe flight envelopes and analysis of flight operations. While current Lagrangian- and Eulerian-based analysis tools can, in principle, model the complete rotorcraft, in practice these implementations are severely hampered by accuracy li ...

The proposed Phase I objective is to develop a compact, light on-demand gas generator design featuring a passive control system to maintain the pressure driving gel propellant pistons within 3%. The proposing firm is Valcor Engineering Corporation, a qualified small business with operations in Springfield, New Jersey. Subcontracted to Valcor is Gencorp Aerojet, with headquarters in Sacramento, ...

THE DESIGN OF PIN DIODE HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN CONDUCTED USING LINEARCIRCUIT ANALYSIS AND INVOLVED INCORPORATING OF THE DIODE INTO A LOW PASS STRUCTURE. THIS STUDY WILL IMPLEMENT THE COMPLETE PIN DIODE MODEL INTO THE SPICE SOURCE CODE AND WILL MAKE POSSIBLE THE LINEAR AND NON LINEAR ANALYSIS IN THE TIME DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN. IN THE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS THE SPIKE LEAKAGE AND FLAT LEAKAGE WILL ...

The objective of the this phase 1 proposal is to design and develop an access control policy framework that is a scaleable across the Army enterprise by allowing for the decentralized management and local enforcement of the access control policies, minimize impact on the network with respect to policy traffic, allow for interoperability between Community of Interests (COIs) or domains and allow fo ...