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Bio-Medical
- Mechanical Components for Demanding Applications
- Using Proprietary Solvent Technology to Swell Silicone
- Virtual Ultrasound Guidance for Inexperienced Operators
Electronics & Computers
- Gigabit Ethernet Asynchronous Clock Compensation FIFO
- Dust-Tolerant Intelligent Electrical Connection System
- Frequency to Voltage Converter Analog Front-End Prototype
Information Sciences
- Magnetic and Electric Field Polarizations of Oblique Magnetospheric Chorus Waves
- Interactive Schematic Integration Within the Propellant System Modeling Environment
- Real-Time Flight Envelope Monitoring System
Manufacturing & Prototyping
- Modified Process Reduces Porosity When Soldering in Reduced Gravity Environments
- Glovebox for GeoLab Subsystem in HDU1-PEM
- Fabrication of a Kilopixel Array of Superconducting Microcalorimeters With Microstripline Wiring
Materials
- Flexible Plug Repair for Shuttle Wing Leading Edge
- Use of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Covalent Attachment of Nanotubes to Silicon
- Three Dimensionally Interlinked, Dense, Solid Form of Single-Walled CNT Ropes
Mechanics & Machinery
- Site Tamper and Material Plow Tool — STAMP
- Transpiration-Cooled Spacecraft-Insulation-Repair Fasteners
- Axel Robotic Platform for Crater and Extreme Terrain Exploration
Photonics
- Integrated Optics Achromatic Nuller for Stellar Interferometry
- High-Speed Digital Interferometry
- Near-Infrared Photon-Counting Camera for High-Sensitivity Observations
Physical Sciences
- Fluorescence-Based Sensor for Monitoring Activation of Lunar Dust
- Multi-Component, Multi-Point Interferometric Rayleigh/Mie Doppler Velocimeter
- Mirror Metrology Using Nano-Probe Supports
Semiconductors & ICs
- Circuit for Communication Over Power Lines
- Optimized FPGA Implementation of Multi-Rate FIR Filters Through Thread Decomposition
- MOSFET Switching Circuit Protects Shape Memory Alloy Actuators
Software
- Nemesis Autonomous Test System
- Techniques for Down-Sampling a Measured Surface Height Map for Model Validation
- Enhanced Graphics for Extended Scale Range
Test & Measurement
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