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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter
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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program and dated 14 December 2009, is a white paper on programmable matter and smart materials. It covers quantum dots, metamaterials, liquid crystals, dynamic windows and spacecraft thermal management, and describes a future space station scenario. It concludes that even partial realization could bring significant gains in spacecraft energy efficiency, safety and mission flexibility.
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Natural Atoms .................................................................................................... 1
Quantum Dots .................................................................................................... 1
Photonics and Meta materials ............................................................................. 3
Liquid Crystals ................................................................................................... 4
"Impossible…
- p. 5 …NATURAL ATOMS
Natural atoms are the 92 elements of the periodic table. Actually there are more…
- p. 6 …However, there are two major differences between a quantum dot and a natural atom.
First, there…
- p. 7 …selecting these properties from the limited catalog nature has
provided.
Barrier
Barrier
Figure 2. Quantum Dot…
- p. 8 …Just as light is affected by the spacing of atoms in a
natural crystal, it can…
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"Impossible" Materials
When natural materials are shaped and combined in…
- p. 10 …larger than the (already vast) range of natural material
combinations.
Although the smart matter of 2050…
- p. 13 …course subject to the same laws as natural
materials. However, while energy can neither be created…
- p. 14 …Unfortunately, natural materials are relatively poor at this-the best efficiencies
achieved with them so far…
- p. 15 …With natural atoms, the choices are quite limited. However, with
artificial atoms and designer materials of…
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Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter
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