Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Stripline/Microstrip Transition in Multilayer Circuit Board
A stripline to microstrip transition has been incorporated into a multilayer circuit board that supports a distributed solid-state microwave power amplifier, for the purpose of...
Briefs: Materials
Anhydrous Proton-Conducting Membranes for Fuel Cells
Polymeric electrolyte membranes that do not depend on water for conduction of protons are undergoing development for use in fuel cells. Prior polymeric electrolyte fuel-cell membranes (e.g., those that contain perfluorosulfonic acid) depend on water and must be limited to operation below a...
Briefs: Materials
Glass Frit Filters for Collecting Metal
Filter disks made of glass frit have been found to be effective as means of high throughput collection of metal oxide particles, ranging in size from a few to a few hundred nanometers, produced in gas phase condensation reactors. In a typical application, a filter is placed downstream of the reactor and a...
Briefs: Medical
Multicompartment Liquid- Cooling/Warming Protective Garments
Shortened, multicompartment liquid-cooling/ warming garments (LCWGs) for protecting astronauts, firefighters, and others at risk of exposure to extremes of temperature are undergoing development. Unlike prior liquid circulation thermal-protection suits that provide either cooling or...
Briefs: Software
Portfolio Analysis Tool
Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT) is a Webbased, client/server computer program that helps managers of multiple projects funded by different customers to make decisions regarding investments in those projects. PAT facilitates analysis on a macroscopic level, without distraction by parochial concerns or tactical details of...
Briefs: Software
Computing Q-D Relationships for Storage of Rocket Fuels
The Quantity Distance Measurement Tool is a GIS BASEP computer program that aids safety engineers by calculating quantity-distance (Q-D) relationships for vessels that contain explosive chemicals used in testing rocket engines. (Q-D relationships are standard relationships between specified...
Briefs: Software
Simulator of Space Communication Networks
Multimission Advanced Communications Hybrid Environment for Test and Evaluation (MACHETE) is a suite of software tools that simulates the behaviors of communication networks to be used in space exploration, and predict the performance of established and emerging space communication protocols and...
Briefs: Software
Contour Error Map Algorithm
The contour error map (CEM) algorithm and the software that implements the algorithm are means of quantifying correlations between sets of time-varying data that are binarized and registered on spatial grids.
Briefs: Software
Quadratic Programming for Allocating Control Effort
A computer program calculates an optimal allocation of control effort in a system that includes redundant control actuators.
Briefs: Software
Range Process Simulation Tool
Range Process Simulation Tool (RPST) is a computer program that assists managers in rapidly predicting and quantitatively assessing the operational effects of proposed technological additions to, and/or upgrades of, complex facilities and engineering systems such as the Eastern Test Range. Originally designed for...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Portable Electron-Beam Free-Form Fabrication System
A portable electron-beam free-form fabrication (EB F3) system, now undergoing development, is intended to afford a capability for manufacturing metal parts in nearly net sizes and...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Solid-Phase Extraction of Polar Compounds From Water
A solid-phase extraction (SPE) process has been developed for removing alcohols, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, ketones, amines, and other polar organic compounds from water. This process can be either a subprocess of a water-reclamation process or a means of extracting organic compounds from...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Automated Electrostatics Environmental Chamber
The Mars Electrostatics Chamber (MEC) is an environmental chamber designed primarily to create atmospheric conditions like those at the surface of Mars to support experiments on electrostatic...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
PCM Passive Cooling System Containing Active Subsystems
A multistage system has been proposed for cooling a circulating fluid that is subject to intermittent intense heating. The system would be both flexible and redundant in that it could...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Laser Metrology for an Optical-Path- Length Modulator
Laser gauges have been developed to satisfy requirements specific to monitoring the amplitude of the motion of an optical path- length modulator that is part of an astronomical...
Briefs: Medical
Miniature Laboratory for Detecting Sparse Biomolecules
The figure schematically depicts a miniature laboratory system that has been proposed for use in the field to detect sparsely distributed biomolecules. By emphasizing concentration and...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Estimating Aeroheating of a 3D Body Using a 2D Flow Solver
A method for rapidly estimating the aeroheating, shear stress, and other properties of hypersonic flow about a three-dimensional (3D) blunt body has been devised. First, the geometry of the body is specified in Cartesian coordinates. The surface of the body is then described by its...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Hidden Identification on Parts: Magnetic Machine-Readable Matrix Symbols
Have you ever seen a piece of spaceflight hardware? When you do, you will notice some letters and numbers etched or inscribed on it. All NASA parts have...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Multipurpose Hyperspectral Imaging System
A hyperspectral imaging system of high spectral and spatial resolution that incorporates several innovative features has been developed to incorporate a focal-plane scanner (U.S. Patent 6,166,373)....
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Hexagonal and Pentagonal Fractal Multiband Antennas
Multiband dipole antennas based on hexagonal and pentagonal fractals have been analyzed by computational simulations and functionally demonstrated in experiments on prototypes. These...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Power Divider for Waveforms Rich in Harmonics
A method for dividing the power of an electronic signal rich in harmonics involves the use of an improved divider topology. A divider designed with this topology could be used, for example, to...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
High-Power Fiber Lasers Using Photonic Band Gap Materials
High-power fiber lasers (HPFLs) would be made from photonic band gap (PBG) materials, according to the proposal. Such lasers would be scalable in the sense that a large number of...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Circuit Indicates That Voice-Recording Disks Are Nearly Full
A remote alarm circuit provides visible and audible signals to indicate that there is little unused space left on magnetic and optical tracks on disks used to record voice signals...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Quantifying Traversability of Terrain for a Mobile Robot
A document presents an updated discussion on a method of autonomous navigation for a robotic vehicle navigating across rough terrain. The method at an earlier stage of development was described in “Navigating a Mobile Robot Across Terrain Using Fuzzy Logic” (NPO-21199), NASA Tech...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Software-Reconfigurable Processors for Spacecraft
A report presents an overview of an architecture for a software-reconfigurable network data processor for a spacecraft engaged in scientific exploration. When executed on suitable electronic hardware, the software performs the functions of a physical layer (in effect, acts as a software radio in...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
SCB Quantum Computers Using iSWAP and 1-Qubit Rotations
Units of superconducting circuitry that exploit the concept of the single-Cooper-pair box (SCB) have been built and are undergoing testing as prototypes of logic gates that could, in...
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Multifunctional Logic Gate Controlled by Supply Voltage
The figure is a schematic diagram of a complementary metal oxide/semiconductor (CMOS) electronic circuit that functions as a NAND gate at a power-supply potential (Vdd) of...
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Multifunctional Logic Gate Controlled by Temperature
The figure is a schematic diagram of a complementary metal oxide/semiconductor (CMOS) electronic circuit that has been designed to function as a NAND gate at a temperature between 0 and 80...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Variable-Pressure Washer
The variable-pressure washer (VPW) is a proposed device that is so named because (1) it would play the role similar to that played by an ordinary washer, except that (2) the clamping pressure applied by it would vary...
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