NASA Tech Briefs, September 2010Topics covered include: Instrument for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Materials at Low Temperatures; Multi-Axis Accelerometer Calibration System; Pupil Alignment Measuring Technique and Alignment Reference for Instruments or Optical Systems; Autonomous System for Monitoring the Integrity of Composite Fan Housings; A Safe, Self-Calibrating, Wireless System for Measuring Volume of Any Fuel at Non-Horizontal Orientation; Adaptation of the Camera Link Interface for Flight-Instrument Applications; High-Performance CCSDS Encapsulation Service Implementation in FPGA; High-Performance CCSDS AOS Protocol Implementation in FPGA; Advanced Flip Chips in Extreme Temperature Environments; Diffuse-Illumination Systems for Growing Plants; Microwave Plasma Hydrogen Recovery System; Producing Hydrogen by Plasma Pyrolysis of Methane; Self-Deployable Membrane Structures; Reactivation of a Tin-Oxide-Containing Catalys; Functionalization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Photo-Oxidation; Miniature Piezoelectric Macro-Mass Balance; Acoustic Liner for Turbomachinery Applications; Metering Gas Strut for Separating Rocket Stages; Large-Flow-Area Flow-Selective Liquid/Gas Separator; Counterflowing Jet Subsystem Design; Water Tank with Capillary Air/Liquid Separation; True Shear Parallel Plate Viscometer; Focusing Diffraction Grating Element with Aberration Control; Universal Millimeter-Wave Radar Front End; Mode Selection for a Single-Frequency Fiber Laser; Qualification and Selection of Flight Diode Lasers for Space Applications; Plenoptic Imager for Automated Surface Navigation; Maglev Facility for Simulating Variable Gravity; Hybrid AlGaN-SiC Avalanche Photodiode for Deep-UV Photon Detection; High-Speed Operation of Interband Cascade Lasers; 3D GeoWall Analysis System for Shuttle External Tank Foreign Object Debris Events; Charge-Spot Model for Electrostatic Forces in Simulation of Fine Particulates; Hidden Statistics Approach to Quantum Simulations; Reconstituted Three-Dimensional Interactive Imaging; Determining Atmospheric-Density Profile of Titan; Digital Microfluidics Sample Analyzer; Radiation Protection Using Carbon Nanotube Derivatives; Process to Selectively Distinguish Viable from Non-Viable Bacterial Cells; and TEAMS Model Analyzer.
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Orbitology Component20100033564WorkFocusing Diffraction Grating Element with Aberration Control20100033542WorkCharacterization of Cloud Water-Content Distribution20100033578WorkOperation Program for the Spatially Phase-Shifted Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometer - SPS-DSPI20100033539WorkReactivation of a Tin-Oxide-Containing Catalyst20100033565WorkExcavator Design Validation20100033594WorkHigh-Performance CCSDS Encapsulation Service Implementation in FPGA20100033605WorkNonlinear Combustion Instability Prediction20100033609WorkTEAMS Model Analyzer20100033580WorkWater Tank with Capillary Air/Liquid Separation20100033583WorkQualification and Selection of Flight Diode Lasers for Space Applications20100033581WorkTrue Shear Parallel Plate Viscometer20100033567Work3D GeoWall Analysis System for Shuttle External Tank Foreign Object Debris Events20100033608WorkPupil Alignment Measuring Technique and Alignment Reference for Instruments or Optical Systems20100033558WorkSystems Maintenance Automated Repair Tasks (SMART)20100033582WorkProbabilistic Design and Analysis Framework20100033576WorkOptimal Codes for the Burst Erasure Channel20100033560WorkMiniature Piezoelectric Macro-Mass Balance20100033547WorkAutonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science20100033551WorkHybrid AlGaN-SiC Avalanche Photodiode for Deep-UV Photon Detection20100033571WorkSituational Lightning Climatologies20100033575WorkMomentum Management Tool for Low-Thrust Missions20100033602WorkProcess to Selectively Distinguish Viable from Non-Viable Bacterial Cells20100033600WorkMicrowave Plasma Hydrogen Recovery System20100033584WorkCharge-Spot Model for Electrostatic Forces in Simulation of Fine Particulates20100033562WorkReal-Time Feature Tracking Using Homography20100033550WorkIn-Situ Pointing Correction and Rover Microlocalization20100033546WorkSparse Superpixel Unmixing for Hyperspectral Image Analysis