UAV Airframes and Missions Drive Embedded Computing Choices

Every branch of the armed forces has a need for capabilities delivered from unmanned aerial vehicle/ unmanned aerial system (UAV/UAS) platforms. These unmanned vehicles have proved critical to improving situational awareness with surveillance and data collection, real-time communications, and even armament deployment. Key to the military’s technological approach to ...

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Channel Field Effect Transistors

Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia

Direct wafer bonding creates ideal channels made of extremely mismatched materials for field effect transistors.

Narrow bandgap semiconductors offer high carrier mobilities and low contact resistances, while wide bandgap semiconductors offer high breakdown voltages. A series of ...

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Projection System and Nanomaterials Create New Driving Aids

Drivers with poor eyesight may soon have technology in automobiles that will help them see a road’s edges or possible hazards more clearly, and shop owners may be able to display colorful images onto their storefront windows because of a projection system innovation.

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Laser Glass

SCHOTT North America (Arlington, VA) offers LG-910 eye-safe laser glass products for operation at 1.5 μm, including rods, slabs, and discs with high-laser-damage-threshold dielectric coatings. Applications include ranging and targeting on handheld, ground, fixed-wing, and rotary platforms. The glass is an erbium-ytterbium-chromium doped phosphate-based laser glass. Phosphate glasses offer higher solubility of rare earth dopants, increasing the amount of active ...

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