July 1, 2008

NASA Tech Briefs - July 2008 - Vol. 32 No. 7

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Supplements

Features

Articles

Green Energy for the Battlefield

Who's Who

Drew Feustel, Astronaut, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Application Briefs

Miniature Control Chip Drives James Webb Telescope Signal

NASA Satellite Data Interpreted for Medical and Public Health Use

Tech Briefs

Semiconductors & ICs

Low-Temperature Supercapacitors

MEMS/ECD Method for Making Bi₂₋ₓSbₓTe₃ Thermoelectric Devices

Compact, Single-Stage MMIC InP HEMT Amplifier

Mechanics & Machinery

Variable-Structure Control of a Model Glider Airplane

Axial Halbach Magnetic Bearings

Compact, Non-Pneumatic Rock-Powder Samplers

Information Sciences

Lossless, Multi-Spectral Data Compressor for Improved Compression for Pushbroom-Type Instruments

Materials

Polymer-Based Composite Catholytes for Li Thin-Film Cells

Using ALD To Bond CNTs to Substrates and Matrices

Alternating-Composition Layered Ceramic Barrier Coatings

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Improved Sand-Compaction Method for Lost-Foam Metal Casting

Improved Probe for Evaluating Compaction of Mold Sand

Physical Sciences

Optical Pressure-Temperature Sensor for a Combustion Chamber

Ground Facility for Vicarious Calibration of Skyborne Sensors

Single-Grid-Pair Fourier Telescope for Imaging in Hard-X Rays and γ Rays

Bidirectional Pressure-Regulator System

Neon as a Buffer Gas for a Mercury-Ion Clock

Bio-Medical

Biochips Containing Arrays of Carbon-Nanotube Electrodes

Electronics & Computers

Torque Sensor Based on Tunnel-Diode Oscillator

Shaft-Angle Sensor Based on Tunnel-Diode Oscillator

Impact-Locator Sensor Panels

Making a Back-Illuminated Imager With Back-Side Contact and Alignment Markers

Low-Loss Waveguides for Terahertz Frequencies

Products

Products

PowerBlock™ 50

Product of the Month: Coherent OTDR

Microscopy System

Photon Laser Diode Modules

Vision System

High Speed Video Camera

Modular Spectroscopy Sensing Instruments

Lamp Measurement System

Optical Mounting Components

Laser Workstations

Synchro/Resolver Angle Measurement Instrument

Linear Photodiode Array

Wafer Scanner

Modular Vision Sensor Platform

Photonics Tech Briefs

Briefs

Prism Window for Optical Alignment

NbₓTi₁₋ₓN Superconducting-Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Miniature Incandescent Lamps as Fiber-Optic Light Sources

Range-Gated Metrology With Compact Optical Head

Applications

Implementing Thermal Bumps in New Product Designs

Articles

Creating Patterned Multispectral Filters

Embedded Technology

Articles

Omniscient Code Generation for 8-, 16- and 32-bit Microcontrollers

Using AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA in High-Availability Military Systems

Multipurpose Transaction Protocol: A New Data Transport Model

Applications

Wireless Electronic Patches Improve Medical Data and Patient Mobility

Products

Multimedia Host Processor

FPGA Processing Engine

Graphics-Class System Host Board

Microcontroller Evaluation Kit

Power Supplies

Virtual Machine Manager

Fanless Single Board Computer

FPGA-Based Processing Platform

Voice Control Processor

32-bit Microprocessor

Digital-to-Synchro/Resolver Converter

PXI Embedded Controllers

COM Express Embedded Modules

VPX SerDes Test Modules

EPIC and EBX Enclosures

Core2 Duo COM Express Module