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Articles in May 2000 issue of NASA Tech Briefs

• Product of the month
• Surface micromachined silicon carbide accelerometers
  by DeAnna, Russell G
• Molded plastic simulated landscapes
  by Kosmo, Joseph J
• CLEO/QELS 2000: At the cutting edge
• What's new in NTB
• Who's who at NASA: Bruce Spiering, instrumentation engineer--Stennis Space Center
• IDL 6.3.1--great for interactive analysis
  by Ross, Steven S
• Reader forum
• NASA announces inventions of the year
• Update on fuzzy-logic-enhanced digital-PIV software
  by Wernet, Mark
• DPSS lasers come of age
• Simplified radiometer for quantifying aircraft icing hazard
  by Mahoney, Michael J
• Application briefs
• Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) have many potential uses
• Optical filters based on dense arrays of microscopic pillars
  by Hartley, Frank
• Self-temperature-compensated ceramic strain gauges
  by Gregory, Otto J
• Dither sensing for controlling a segmented-mirror telescope
  by Zeiders, Glenn W
• A revolutionary "IMAGE"
• Getting better flow-structure information
• evolution of structured clusers, The
  by Breault, Robert
• National Design Engineering Show 2000: A new century of innovation
• Fifth annual Product of the Year Awards
• Software for predicting behavior of a pyrotechnic actuator
  by Powers, Joseph M; Gonthier, Keith A
• Submillimeter-sized Bi(2-x)Sb(x)Te(3) thermoelectric devices
  by Fleurial, Jean-Pierre; Ryan, Margaret A; Borshchevsky, Alex; Phillips, Wayne; Kolawa, Elizabeth; Et al
• RTM-processable resins containing thermosetting plasticizers
  by Kovar, Robert; Landrau, Nelson; Roylance, Margaret; Tiano, Thomas
• Burn-resistant, strong nickel alloys
  by Stoltzfus, Joel M; Tayal, Moti J
• Magnetoelectric sensors and electric generators
  by Blosiu, Julian; Goghosian, Mary
• Bleaching by laser for marking black anodized aluminum
  by Megason, Roger; Mitchell, Herbert; Williams, Marvin
• Aerogels with gradients of density
  by Jones, Steven; Tsou, Peter
• High-speed complex-amplitude liquid-crystal SLMs
  by Sharp, Gary; Serati, Steve
• Two-color random reflectors for QWIPs
  by Wilson, Daniel; Bandara, Sumith; Gunapala, Sarath; Liu, John K
• Laser heating for testing rocket-engine insulating phenolic
  by Johnson, Timothy N; Mathias, Edward C
• "Set and hold with power off" cryogenic actuators
  by Horner, Garnett C; Bromberg, Leslie; Teter, J P
• Instrument measures fluorescence from chlorophyll in plants
  by Kebabian, Paul L; Scott, Herman E; Freedman, Andrew
• Tridirectional gratings as improved couplers for QWIPs
  by Bandara, Sumith V; Gunapala, Sarath; Wilson, Daniel; Liu, John K
• On-chip correction for defective pixels in an image sensor
  by Doudoumopoulos, Nick; Panicacci, Roger; Fossum, Eric H
• Three-color focal-plane array of infrared QWIPs
  by Bandara, Sumith; Gunapala, Sarath; Liu, John K; Wilson, Daniel; Parrish, William
• SIMON--school Internet manager over networks
  by Shelton, Robert O; Smith, Stephanie; Truong, Dat; Hodgson, Terry
• Electrobiotic toxic-agent sensors
  by Moynihan, Philip; Stirbl, Robert; Kern, Roger