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Supplemental Camera and Maneuvering Platform (SCAMP)
Published Tuesday, October 21, 1997The Space Systems Laboratory (SSL) does a lot of work underwater. It uses the underwater environment to simulate the weightlessness of space. Many of the activities are very complicated and require significant video coverage to adequately perform tasks.The Supplemental Camera and Maneuvering Platform (SCAMP) was conceived to be a "...
Categories: Devices
Keyword(s): Underwater imaging
Docket: PS-97-042
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Integrated Sensor Monitoring the Allowable Heat Exposure Time for Firefighters
Published Tuesday, April 4, 2006The gear donned by firefighters has advanced to a high level of heat protection with the use of modern materials. These improvements in insulating capabilities have resulted in an increased delay time between the thermal insult and its effects as heat energy is transported from the gear outer surface to the inner layers in contact with firefighter...
Categories: Devices, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): temperature sensor, Thermal equipment, 525
Docket: PS-2006-018
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MEMS Accelerometer for High Acceleration Levels and Extreme Environmental Applications
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006A number of different MEMS accelerometer designs exist and many are commercially available. The variations between these devices include the material used in their fabrication, the geometry of the device, and the method employed to facilitate the acceleration measurement. Different materials are selected based upon factors such as fabrication...
Categories: Microelectronics, Devices, Aerospace
Keyword(s): MEMS accelerometer, piezoelectric, piezoresistive
Docket: PS-2005-086
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Biologically-Inspired Visually Implemented Blending in a Local Environment (B-InVisIBLE) Active Camouflage
Published Monday, October 29, 2007A flexible, conformable display mechanism has been described that is capable of creating a wide variety of color combinations and spatial patterns, which uses the chromatophores and reflective underlying layer of cuttlefish skin as biological inspiration. Basic operation is similar in concept to the operation of passive-matrix LCDs, whereby the...
Categories: Devices
Keyword(s): environment, artificial, cuttle fish, active camoflauge
Docket: PS-2007-070
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Multispectral Imaging Radiometer
Published Monday, October 29, 2007The Multi-spectral Imaging Radiometer is an optical apparatus that maps the temperature distribution across a hot sample, with high spatial resolution. An image of the glowing object is split into 4 (or more) separate wavelength bands, creating multiple visible/NIR images that are focused independently. All of the single- wavelength images are...
Categories: Devices, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Geology, imaging radiometer
Docket: PS-2007-077
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Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Brain tumors, which occur in 20-40% of adult cancer patients, are among the most feared complications of the disease. Despite numerous advances in treatment, the prognosis for these patients is poor, with a median survival of 4-8 months. The primary reasons for the poor survival rate are the lack of good continuous imaging modality for...
Categories: Imaging devices, Surgical devices, Robotics, Devices
Keyword(s): minimally invasive neurosurgical intercranial robot
Docket: PS-2007-088
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Frequency and Force Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Amplitude-modulation tapping-mode atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM) has developed into an important imaging tool for surface characterization. Despite its technical advances it succumbs to imaging bistability caused by the co-existence of attractive and repulsive imaging regimes, and potential sample damage in the repulsive regime....
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Devices, Engineering
Keyword(s): atomic force microscopy
Docket: PS-2007-001
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Non-Contact Magnetostrictive Torque Sensor
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008As sensors become integrated in more applications, interest in Magnetostrictive sensor technology has blossomed. Magnetostrictive sensors take advantage of the efficient coupling between the elastic and magnetic states of a material to facilitate sensing a quantity of interest.Researchers at the department of Aerospace Engineering at the...
Categories: Devices, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Magnetostrictive sensors, Strain gages, Torque measurement, 525
Docket: PS-2007-020
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Low Profile F-Inverted Compact Antenna (FICA)
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008The antenna size is one of the major limitations in miniaturizing wireless communication equipment. Chip antennas and planar inverted F antennas (PIFAs) have already appeared on the market due to their low profile, small size and effective integration with transceiver chips on circuit boards. However these antennas perform well only if a ground...
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Microelectronics, Power Electronics, Devices
Keyword(s): Antenna design, WSN, 525
Docket: PS-2007-046
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Positioning Quantum Dots in Devices by Electroosmotic Feedback Control
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for storing and manipulating quantum information. To perform scalable quantum computation and long distance quantum networking requires the ability to deterministically position and fix many QDs into a single device, and ability that is currently not available. Such integration would enable one...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): positioning quantum dots electro-osmotic feedback control
Docket: PS-2007-118