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The development of a high-speed, very accurate XY stage for semiconductor lithography is proposed. Key features are: a grid-based metrology system which is immune to turbulence and has subnanometer resolution; a high-speed, light-weight XY stage capable of supporting 12" wafers, and including active control of all six degrees of freedom; and dual-loop servo systems for X and Y to provide fast lon ...

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Reuse of design rationales, while essential to long-term goals of both design rationale capture and software reuse, presents significant challenges to current technology. Organon Motives, Inc. (OMI) and Knowledge Evolution, Inc. (KEI) propose a system, MIRIAD (Models for Interoperable Rationale, Inference and Alternative Designs), for recording and managing reusable rationale in semantically stru ...

THIS PROPOSAL INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF SNYTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGERY. SPECIFICALLY, THIS TASK INVOLVES FINDING ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC) POWER LINES AND RELATED STRUCTURES FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION AIRBORNE SAR (ASAR) IMAGES. WE WILL IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOP NEW TECHNIQUES AS NECESSARY TO STRENGTHEN WEAK AREAS. WE WILL ESTABLISH A METH ...

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There is an explosion of 3-D graphics technology in the mainstream commercial market. A $10,000 3-D graphics PC outperforms a $100,000 UNIX 3-D graphics workstation in virtually all aspects, in particular the 3-D rendering speed. We have an opportunity to exploit this new technology so every analyst or war-fighter can use their desktop PC to visualize in real-time 3-D urban and terrain data. In ...

COMPOSITES HAVE ESTABLISHED THEIR ADVANTAGEOUS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE AND WEIGHT REDUCTION, PARTICULARLY IN TENSION-LOADED STRUCTURES LOADED. THESE MATERIALS POSSESS HIGH STIFFNESSES AND TENSILE STRENGTHS COMBINED WITH LOW DENSITY, AND THEY HAVE BECOME THE MATERIAL OF CHOICE IN NUMEROUS HIGH PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS. THE SAME CANNOT BE SAID FOR COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES OF THESE MATERIALS, WHICH ARE OF ...

MAN-PORTABLE ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT SUCH AS THE MINI GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVER IS CURRENTLY POWERED BY HEAVY CHEMICAL BATTERIES. A WIND-UP SPRING DEVICE, CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 4W AT 12V FOR 5 MIN AT ONE WINDING, WOULD BE A DESIRABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR BATTERIES. UNFORTUNATELY, CALCULATIONS SHOW THAT THE WEIGHT AND BULK OF A SPRING MECHANISM WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE. INSTEAD, A SMALL, HIGHLY EFFICI ...

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