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Bio-Medical
- Micro-Endoscope as Thin as a Human Hair
- Hand-Based Biometric Analysis
- Choosing Chiller Pumps to Cool Medical Lasers
Electronics & Computers
- An Offload NIC for NASA, NLR, and Grid Computing
- Flight Hardware Packaging Design for Stringent EMC Radiated Emission Requirements
- RF Reference Switch for Spaceflight Radiometer Calibration
Information Sciences
- Video Altimeter and Obstruction Detector for an Aircraft
- Mixed Integer Programming and Heuristic Scheduling for Space Communication
- Optimization of Turbine Blade Dovetail Geometry
Manufacturing & Prototyping
- Advanced Materials and Fabrication Techniques for the Orion Attitude Control Motor
- Silicon/Carbon Nanotube Photocathode for Splitting Water
- Ultra-Low Heat- Leak, High- Temperature Superconducting Current Leads for Space Applications
Materials
- Manufacturing of Nanocomposite Carbon Fibers and Composite Cylinders
- Multi-scale CNT-Based Reinforcing Polymer Matrix Composites for Lightweight Structures
- Pt-Ni and Pt-Co Catalyst Synthesis Route for Fuel Cell Applications
Mechanics & Machinery
- A Mission Concept: Re-Entry Hopper-Aero-Space-Craft System on-Mars (REARM-Mars)
- Optimized Radiator Geometries for Hot Lunar Thermal Environments
- Wind, Wave, and Tidal Energy Without Power Conditioning
Photonics
- Cobra Fiber-Optic Positioner Upgrade
- Partitioned-Interval Quantum Optical Communications Receiver
- Practical UAV Optical Sensor Bench With Minimal Adjustability
Physical Sciences
- Using a Blender to Assess the Microbial Density of Encapsulated Organisms
- Reliability of CCGA 1152 and CCGA 1272 Interconnect Packages for Extreme Thermal Environments
- New Class of Flow Batteries for Terrestrial and Aerospace Energy Storage Applications
Semiconductors & ICs
- Verilog-A Device Models for Cryogenic Temperature Operation of Bulk Silicon CMOS Devices
- Thermally Resilient, Broadband Optical Absorber From UV to IR Derived From Carbon Nanostructures
- Circuit for Communication Over Power Lines
Software
- Multi-User Space Link Extension (SLE) System
- Galactic Cosmic Ray Event- Based Risk Model (GERM) Code
- Sasquatch Footprint Tool
Test & Measurement
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