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Performance benefits to systems employing an Electrically Steerable Antenna (ESA) are numerous. Included are rapid beam scanning, beam agility, and the performance of multiple functions such as surveillance and target tracking. These gains are obtained at the expense of large increases in system cost and weight. For many space and aerostat applications, the classical ESA architecture of one T/R ...

DARPA wishes to exploit MEMS technology to develop a tactical grade INS. SatCon is proposing to develop an angular rate sensor combined with an accelerometer which are microfabricated on a single "chip" using the LIGA lithographic process. The accelerometer element employs a rebalanced cantilever, oriented orthogonally to the substrate, while the rate sensor uses a vibrating cylinder sensitive t ...

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This DARPA SBIR Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of revolutionary ionic self-assembly methods of creating electric field-tunable thin-film electronic materials and devices. Exciting recent work at F&S and Virginia Tech has shown that the ionic nature of the self-assembly process inherently results in the spontaneous regular geometric ordering of noncentrosymmetric dipole molecules. ...

There is a need for simple, light-weight practical instrumentation for rapid characterization of chemical and biological analytes in the modern battlefield. Recently, a surface-sensitive diode laser (SSDL), having over 1% of the mode power in the region extending 40 nm from the laser surface has been designed and fabricated. The SSDL was capable of monitoring the deposition of absorptive films a ...

MICRO-ELECTRONIC FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES HAVE RECENTLY BEEN APPLIED TO PRODUCE NOVEL MICRO-MECHANICAL DEVICES SUCH AS MOTORS, SENSORS, AND ACTUATORS. THEIR SMALL SIZE AND EASY INTEGRATION WITH MICROELECTRONICS INVITE INNOVATIVE RESEARCH, BUT THUS FAR FEW USEFUL APPLICATION CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED. ONE DEVICE WITH WIDESPREAD APPLICATION WOULD BE AN ELECTRICALLY SUSPENDED MICRO-GYROSCOPE. THE ...

Foster-Miller, Inc. (FMI) in association with Schwartz Electro Optics, Inc. (SEO) proposes to develop a novel in-situ real-time sensor for monitoring Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth processes. These sensors will be based on laser induced atomic fluorescence, which is the method of choice for trace analysis of atomic species in the low pressure MBE environment. The enabling technology is the ...

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Achieving global awareness by automatically exploiting sensor data will provide tremendous advantage to the warfighter. However, camouflage, concealment, and deception (CC&D) can be effective countermeasures against surveillance systems. The most promising strategies for defeating CC&D exploit multiple sensor modalities, such as foliage penetration (FOPEN) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and hype ...

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