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Nylon Shapes and Custom Parts
TECAST cast nylon stock shapes and custom parts from Ensinger offer a combination of physical and wear properties, along with inherently lighter weight, to provide users with a cost-effective alternative to metal...
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Army Secures Critical Component for Artillery, Mortar Ammunition
The U.S. Army is nearing completion on a project to eliminate its dependency on foreign countries for a critical energetic component in artillery and mortar ammunition, officials...
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GKN Aerospace-Led Project Automates Assembly of Aircraft Wing Structures
GKN Aerospace is leading a project under the Structures Technology Maturity (STeM) program that aims to automate the assembly of aircraft structures with the goal of...
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Ball Aerospace Awarded Contract for Ion Velocity Meter
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $5.8 million contract from the Defense Weather System Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, CA,...
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Boeing Selects Site for New 777X Composite Wing Center
Boeing has selected its Everett, WA, site as the location for a new composite wing center for the 777X program. Boeing evaluated criteria that were designed to find the wing fabrication...
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Tata Sikorsky JV Producing Fully Indigenous S-92 Cabins
The India joint venture established between Tata Advanced Systems and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has announced that its S-92 helicopter cabin production in India has become 100%...
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Thermal Management for Fuel-Cell Systems Studied
Reducing the environmental impact of aircraft in terms of carbon dioxide, noise, and pollutant emissions is an important objective. Fuel-cell systems deliver electrical energy with high...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Stencil Mask Methodology for Parallelized Production of Microscale Mechanical Test Samples
Over the past decade, there has been considerable progress in the development of new mechanical testing methods to characterize the properties of...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Tin-Based IV-IV Heterostructures Fabricated Using Molecular Beam Epitaxy
The indirect nature of the fundamental energy gap in the elemental semiconductors Si and Ge prevents the use of these materials and their alloys in laser devices. The...
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Micro-Composite Fabrication via Field-Aided Laminar Composite Processing
Much work has been accomplished since the discovery that particles in a dielectric fluid experience forces when placed in an electric field, including mathematical...
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Three-Dimensional Plastic Part Extrusion and Conductive Ink Printing for Flexible Electronics
Structural electronics, or structronics, seeks to build wiring and electrical interconnects directly into component structures to diminish the need...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Operation and On-Chip Integration of Cavity-QED-Based Detectors for Single Atoms and Molecules
A new experimental platform for studies of transport and quantumlimited measurements of cold, trapped atomic gases was constructed. Using microfabrication processes, a silicon wafer was micromachined to allow for deposition of micrometer-scale...
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Direct-Write Polymer Nanolithography in Ultra-High Vacuum
The deposition of materials in vacuum is the foundational technology for creating modern electronic circuits; a vacuum being essential both to preserve the cleanliness of the substrate...
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Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Channels on Three- Dimensional Building Blocks
Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are the most attractive material in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology due to their chemical, physical, and electrical...
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Fabrication of Novel Transparent PMMA Composites for Optical Tagging
The emerging threats caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have drastically increased concerns about soldier survivability. The ability to identify “friend vs....
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Fabrication of Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films for OLED Applications
The process to prepare single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) solutions with a good degree of dispersion of individually isolated SWCNTs and very thin SWCNT bundles was...
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Borosilicate Glass
SCHOTT North America, Inc. (Louisville, KY) presents SUPREMAX® 33 rolled borosilicate glass for telescope applications. SUPREMAX 33, which has the properties of SCHOTT’s BOROFLOAT® 33, provides low thermal expansion, high...
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Development of Soldier Conformable Antennas Using Conducting Polymers
Soldiers performing dismounted operations in the field use radios that have antennas with a distinct visible signature and can become easy targets. These antennas also tend...
Briefs Materials
Functionalized Silk Materials
T he goal of this work was to exploit the novel structural, physical, and biological features of silk proteins towards functionalization of materials systems generated from this family of protein. A new generation of functional silk systems is sought to provide novel materials with precise control of material features....
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Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Organic Thin-Film Solar Cells
Fabrication of two-dimensional metal nanoparticle arrays was achieved both by thermal annealing and nanosphere lithography techniques, which are both very fast and economic. The surface plasmon resonance of the fabricated nanostructure was analyzed experimentally by optical absorption...
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Shape Memory Polymer Process Development
This work introduces a simple technique of separately fabricating electrospun short fibers. This technique employs a paper mesh, which is placed between the needle tip and counter electrode of the...
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Micro-Propulsion Devices Made of Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics
In the satellite industry, the trend is towards decreasing the size of satellites and clustering of small satellites. Technological advancements in microelectronics have made it more economical to launch a cluster of satellites with a single vehicle rather than the traditional one...
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Solution Deposition Methods for Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors
Extensive research has been done on carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), which may revolutionize electronics. Single-walled carbon nano-tubes (SWNTs) act as...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturing Cylindrical Parts Using Deep Draw Technology
In applications where product performance is mission critical, commercial, military, and aerospace companies require technology to manufacture deep- drawn cylindrical product...
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Microfabrication and Testing of a Thermoelectric Device for Generating Mobile Electrical Power
Several attractive features of thermo-electric (TE) technology include no moving parts, light weight, modularity, covertness, silence, high power...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fabricating Biologically Inspired Artificial Haircell Sensors
As electronics packaging and equipment have decreased in size and weight, so have the potential dimensions of unmanned aircraft. Specifically, a classification of micro air vehicles...
Tech Transfer Reports Materials
Ceramic Manufacturing Technique Opens New Markets
Traditionally, ceramics have been thought of as hard and brittle, yet able to tolerate high temperatures. Now, Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) of Tucson, AZ has developed a method of...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Patterning of Polycrystalline Bi2Te3 Thin Films on Silicon
Experiments in patterning of thin films of polycrystalline bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) on silicon substrates have been performed. Bi2Te3 is representative of a family of thermoelectric...
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Improvements in Manufacturing BMI/Fiber Composites Using AFP
A program now in progress is dedicated to making improvements in automated fiber placement (AFP) for the manufacture of advanced composite-material (matrix/fiber) structural...
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