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Simulation of a Flywheel Energy-Storage System
A computational model has been developed to simulate the operation of a laboratory flywheel energy-storage system that is a subsystem of the Flywheel Attitude Control, Energy Transmission, and Storage (FACETS) system located at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The FACETS, which includes three...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
A Comparison of SiC-Based Devices for Use as Power Switches
A report details a survey of the state of technological development and commercial availability of SiC-based electronic devices that has been performed to evaluate the suitability of such devices as power switches in present and future applications in which high reliability and/or...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Advances in Organic-Based Electronic Devices
A program of research has addressed multiple topics in the field of electronic and optoelectronic devices based on polymers and other organic substances, with special attention to memory devices and...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
AlxInyGa1-x-yN Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Triodes
Light-emitting triodes (LETs) have been the focus of a program of research with a goal of increasing the quantum efficiencies of ultraviolet-lightemitting devices implemented in the...
Briefs Materials
Less-Polluting Resins for Molding Composite Structures
Liquid resins that are suitable for use in molding composite- material structural panels and that contain and emit smaller amounts of air-polluting volatile organic compounds than do...
Briefs Materials
Some Advances in High-Temperature Superconductor Coatings
Several advances were made in a program focused on the science and technology of high-temperature superconductors [especially yttrium barium copper oxide ("YBCO")] deposited on normal electrical conductors. This program was part of a continuing effort to develop superconductor-coated normal...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Future of Space Propulsion
A paper presents an overview of state of the art of space propulsion, oriented toward attempting to understand recent history in order to make some predictions about future developments. As used here, "space propulsion" refers generally to what are now called "spacelift" and "spacecraft propulsion." Further, as used...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Miniature Wheel-Leg Mobile Robots
Mini-Whegs™ are small mobile robots, designed according to abstracted cockroach locomotion principles, that can run and can climb obstacles taller than themselves. Mini-Whegs are derived from larger mobile...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Progress Toward Carbon-Nanotube Arrays for Probing Cells
Progress has been reported in research oriented toward the goal of fabricating arrays of interconnected single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) that could serve as probes for measuring...
Briefs Medical
Toward High-Performance Neural Control of Prosthetic Devices
A program of basic and applied research in neuroscience is dedicated to (1) advancing fundamental understanding of how the human brain plans and executes arm movements and (2) designing and building high-performance neural prostheses for controlling arm prostheses. The basic-research part...
Briefs Medical
Progress Toward Cell-Directed Assembly of Nanostructures
During 2007, progress was made on several fronts in a research program oriented toward developing capabilities for biocompatible and biomimetic self-assembly of nanostructures that could...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Advances Toward Development of "Smart Dust" Biosensors
Progress has been made toward meeting several technical challenges in a continuing effort to develop “smart dust” sensors for remote detection of chemical and biological agents. Until...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Structural Composite Batteries
A continuing program of research and development is devoted to the design, fabrication, and testing of polymeric composite- material devices that are multifunctional in the sense that they both store...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Mechanical Aspects of Structural Composite Batteries
In furtherance of the development described in the immediately preceding article, an experimental study focusing on mechanical aspects of structural composite batteries was performed. In this...
Briefs Information Technology
Sensor Validation Using Nonlinear Minor-Component Analysis
Aconcept of sensor validation using nonlinear minor-component analysis (NLMCA) has been proposed as a theoretical basis of a sensor fault-detection-and isolation (FDI) module in a...
Briefs Information Technology
Enlightened Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Networks
A continuing research project is dedicated to development of mathematical and software infrastructure in support of post genomics research in systems biology. One near-term objective of the project is to contribute to deeper understanding of the organizational principles of biological...
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B&W Tek (Newark, DE) has introduced the MiniRam II portable Raman spectrometer, a lightweight, battery operated Raman instrument with a 10-cm-1 spectral resolution in 175 - 3100 cm-1 Raman shift range, with a stabilized 785-nm...
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Deposition Sciences (Santa Rosa, CA) offers expanded optical coating services in the Infrared spectrum for defense applications. Coating capabilities range from the ultraviolet (UV), through the visible (VIS), near-infrared (NIR), middle-infrared (MIR or IR), and to the farinfrared (FIR). The companyís patented MicroDyn reactive...
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FLIR Systems Thermography Div. (North Billerica, MA) offers the SC8000 IR camera that produces images with output of 1024 × 1024 pixels at 132 frames per second. The mega-pixel camera is designed for advanced scientific...
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The IS-1200 LandHawk inertial-optical helmet tracking system for ground vehicles and aircrafts is available from InterSense (Bedford, MA). The system is a 6-degrees-of-freedom, wide-area, vision-inertial, self-tracking system for...
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Hermes high-power, QWI-enabled, 8- and 9-nm QCW laser bars and stacked arrays are available from Intense Ltd. (North Brunswick, NJ). Utilizing Quantum Well Intermixing (QWI) technology, the company offers laser products such as...
Articles Weapons Systems
The Ballistic Missile Defense System: An Integrated Approach to Global Defense
Although the end of the Cold War signaled a reduction in the likelihood of global nuclear conflict, the threat from ballistic missiles has grown steadily as...
Articles Propulsion
Data-Centric Distributed Application Architecture for Shipboard Systems
System architects design distributed applications leveraging computer resources connected by a network infrastructure: CPU-intensive tasks may be located on powerful core...
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