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A BRUSHLESS ALTERNATOR USING VERY HIGH ENERGY PRODUCT PERMANENT MAGNETS WILL BE COMBINED WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLID-STATE VOLTAGE CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY TO DEMONSTRATE PRECISE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION FOR ELECTRONICS ONBOARD MINIATURE AIRCRAFT. PHASE I WILL INCLUDE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION, FABRICATION, AND TESTING OF A PROTOTYPE ALTERNATOR, CONCLUDING WITH A DEMONSTRATION OF THE PROTOTYPE DRIVEN BY ...

FOSTER-MILLER PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN INNOVATIVE MULTICHIP PACKAGING (MCP) APPROACH THAT WILL RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN SILICON PACKING DENSITY AND REDUCTION IN COST COMPARED TO STATE-OF-THE-ART MCP TECHNOLOGIES. THE FOSTER-MILLER APPROACH WILL USE HIGHLY IMPERMEABLE LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS TO ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR A "HERMETIC HOUSING" FOR MULTICHIP PACKAGES. A NOVEL PROCESS IS PROPOSED ...

FOSTER-MILLER PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A NOVEL IN SITU PROCESS MONITOR TO COMPLETELY CHARACTERIZE AND CONTROL THE MOCVD GROWTH PROCESS FOR MERCURY CADMIUM TELLURIDE (MCT). IT WILL BE BASED ON FOSTER-MILLER'S HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL REMOTE FIBER OPTIC FTIR PROCESS MONITOR. THIS TOOL WAS DEVELOPED BY FOSTER-MILLER TO MONITOR AND CONTROL POLYMER REACTIONS IN HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS, AND IS A WINNER OF A RECENT IR- ...

IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS SYSTEMS, THERE IS A NEED FOR PROPELLANTS AND EXPLOSIVES WHICH ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE POWERFUL AND LESS SENSITIVE THAN THOSE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. BECAUSE OF THE HIGH DENSITIES AND HIGH STRAIN ENERGIES CHARACTERISTIC OF SMALL CAGE MOLECULES, POLYNITRO CAGE COMPOUNDS ARE PRIME CANDIDATES FOR NEW POWERFUL EXPLOSIVES. PARTICULARLY INTERESTING ...

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WITH THE ADVENT OF LASERS IN COMMUNICATIONS, ONE TECHNIQUE THAT IS EMPLOYED IS DIRECT AMPLITUDE MODULATION OF THE SOURCE LASER WITH THE RF WAVE THAT ACTUALLY CARRIES THE INFORMATION OF INTEREST. DEMODULATION IS PERFORMED VIA DIRECT DETECTION OF THE RECEIVED BEAM FOR MANY SHORT-DISTANT COMMUNICATIONS. A LIMITATION ON THIS TECHNIQUE IS THE LINEARITY OF THE DIRECT MODULATION. THAT IS, THE AMPLITUDE O ...

THE PROJECT IS AIMED AT DEVELOPING A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR PRINTED INTEGRATED FABRICATION OF ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (INCLUDING MULTI-LAYER ELECTRIC CIRCUT BOARDS AS WELL AS OPTOELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES SUCH AS AIRCRAFT/VEHICLE INSTRUMENT PANELS) AS A MONOLITHIC OBJECT USING A FAST LOW-COST AUTOMATABLE PROCESS THAT IS HIGHLY EFFICIENT FOR PROTOTYPING. THE PROCESS IS BASED ON SOLIDIFICATION OF LIQU ...