Mainland High School
Cutting the Cord: ISTF 07-1726
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 Component One
ACTA Press - Effect of Antennas on Read Range in RFID Systems for Manufacturing and Logistics Control
  http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=26390&reason=500

Defense Update - Active Denial System
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Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products - RFID
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Friends of CRC - SHARP
  http://www.friendsofcrc.ca/Projects/SHARP/sharp.html

Georgia Tech - Wireless Power Transmission for Solar Power Satellite (SPS)
  http://www.sspi.gatech.edu/wptshinohara.pdf  (pg 5,6)

GlobalSecurity.org - Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System
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Google Patent Search - United States Patent: 3989994
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Google Patent Search - United States Patent: 5321414
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Ile de la Réunion - Grand Bassin
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International Symposium Nikola Tesla - Research Activities and Future Trends of Microwave Wireless Power Transmission
  http://www.tesla-symp06.org/papers/Tesla-Symp06_Budimir.pdf  (pg 4)

l'Université de La Réunion - The Grand-Bassin Case Study: Technical Aspects
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l'Université de La Réunion - Point-to-Point Wireless Power Transportation in Reunion Island
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l'Université de La Réunion - Wireless Power Transportation: New Markets for Sustainable Development
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Microwave Journal - UHF RFID Industry Growth Powered by RF Technology
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NASA - CO-OPS
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NASA - Goldstone Tour
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National Science Foundation - Microwave Research Instrumental Acquisition
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National Science Foundation - U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Space Solar Power Systems
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National Space Society - Colonies in Space
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Parise Research Technologies - Remote Charging System for a Vehicle
  http://www.parisetech.com/VRCPat1.pdf

PR Newswire - Raytheon Delivers Breakthrough Non-Lethal Sheriff Active Denial System
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Purdue University - Schottky Barrier Diodes
  http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/WBG/Device_Research/Schottky_Diodes/Index.html

Sandia National Laboratories - Team Investigates Active Denial System for Security Applications
  http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2005/def-nonprolif-sec/active-denial.html

Sunsat Energy Council - Newsletter
  http://www.sunsat.org/Ver.2/News1_2_2001.htm

SystemID - RFID Tags and Labels
  http://www.systemid.com/rfid/labels.asp

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Fusion experiment receives $2.7 million grant
  http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ep/newsletter/2002-03fallwinter/Article04_grant.html

URSI - Microwave Power Transmissions in the World
  http://www.ursi.org/WP/Appendices1.pdf  (pg 4, 6)

WPT'01 - Programme Detaillé des Sessions (en anglais)
  http://www.science-sainte-rose.net/GrandBassin/wpt01/sessions.htm

Dr. Jean-Daniel Lan-Sun-Luk
  

 Component Two
2008 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - Atlanta
  http://www.ims2008.org/

2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium
  http://rawcon.org/rws2008/RWS08FinProg.pdf

IEEE - About IEEE
  http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/home/index.html

Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
  http://mtt.org/index.html

Microwave Theory and Techniques Society - Meetings and Symposium Committee
  http://mtt.org/conferences/index.html

Microwave Theory and Techniques Society - Publications
  http://mtt.org/publications/index.htm

MicroWave Technology, Inc. - About
  http://www.mwtinc.com/about.htm

MicroWave Technology, Inc. - GaAs Device Technology
  http://www.mwtinc.com/PDFs/MwT%20GaAs%20Device%20Technology.pdf

MicroWave Technology, Inc. - GaAs Fet Selection Guide
  http://www.mwtinc.com/cat/fets/htm/new-html/gaasfets2.htm

MicroWave Technology, Inc. - Quality Management System
  http://www.mwtinc.com/quality_system.htm#Quality%20Policy

Parise Research Technologies
  http://parisetech.com/index.html

Parise Research Technologies - Remote Charging System for a Vehicle
  http://www.parisetech.com/VRCPat1.pdf

Parise Research Technologies - Technologies
  http://www.parisetech.com/technology.html

QuinStar Technology, Inc.
  http://www.quinstar.com/

QuinStar Technology, Inc. - Company History
  http://www.quinstar.com/about_us.html

QuinStar Technology, Inc. - QCA series Cryogenic Amplifiers and Systems
  http://www.quinstar.com/qca_cryogenically_cooled_amplifiers_and_systems.html

The Auto Channel - Researcher Foresees Day When Motorists No Longer Need to Stop And `Fill `Er Up'
  http://www.theautochannel.com/news/press/date/19991230/press005072.html

Dr. Ronald J. Parise
  

 Product
Electronics Manufacturers - Phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit
  http://www.electronics-manufacturers.com/products/electrical-electronic-components/integrated-circuit-ic/phase-locked-loop-pll/

IEEE Explore - Thermal study of semiconductor-superconductor hybrids
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=92483

Imasonic - Phased array principle
  http://www.imasonic.com/Industry/PAprinciple.php

Peregrine Semiconductor - Product Brief
  http://www.psemi.com/pdf/datasheets/pe42671ds.pdf

Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere - Compact Microwave Energy Transmitter
  http://www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/jusps/P03.pdf  (pg 4)

Science Links Japan - Injection Signal Controlled Active Phased Arrays without Mode Jumps
  http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200613/000020061306A0338144.php

Space Studies Institute - SSI Sample Slides
  http://ssi.org/?page_id=14

Dr. Ronald J. Parise
  1

 Component Three
ExxonMobil - global economics and energy
  http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_outlook_gee.aspx

ExxonMobil - world energy demand
  http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_outlook_primaryenergy.aspx

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Course 6: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6a.html

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.engin.elect.shtml

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Welcome to EECS
  http://www.eecs.mit.edu/

Texas A&M University - Department Welcome
  http://www.ece.tamu.edu/Department/DepWelcome.htm

Texas A&M University - Course Descriptions
  http://www.tamu.edu/admissions/catalogs/07-08_UG_Catalog/course_descriptions/index.htm

Texas A&M University - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  http://webapps.ee.tamu.edu/

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Courses
  http://www.wisc.edu/pubs/ug/07engineering/engphys.html#courses

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Fusion Technology Institute
  http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/fti

Michael Friend

 William C. Brown
Defense Technical Information Center - Experimental Airborne Microwave Supported Platform
  http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0474925

Google Patent Search - United States Patent: 3989994
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Google Patent Search - United States Patent: 3434678
  http://www.google.com/patents?id=j3hzAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=3434678

Friends of CRC - SHARP
  http://www.friendsofcrc.ca/Projects/SHARP/sharp.html

IEEE Virtual Museum - William C. Brown
  http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/people.php?id=1234756&lid=1

IEEE Virtual Museum - Solar-Power Satellites
  http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/tech.php?id=2345888&lid=1

IEEE History Center - Microwaves—a journey in reshaping technology
  http://www.ieee.org/portal/.../Mukherjee.pdf  (pg 14)

MTT-S - Bill Brown’s Distinguished Career
  http://www.mtt.org/awards/WCB's%20distinguished%20career.htm

MTT-S - The MTT-S Microwave Pioneer Award
  http://www.mtt.org/awards/pioneer.htm

Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere - History of Microwave Power Transmission before 1980
  http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/plasma-group/sps/history2-e.html

ScienceDirect - Wireless power transmission technology state of the art the first Bill Brown lecture
  www.sciencedirect.com

University of South Florida - Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Think-Film M-I-M Diodes for Rectenna Array
  http://etd.fcla.edu/SF/SFE0000451/FINAL_DRAFT.pdf  (pg 13)

University of Michigan - The History of the Reentrant Beam Crossed Field Aamplifier with Emphasis on Noise Comparison with the Magnetron
  http://www-ners.engin.umich.edu/labs/plasma/research/magnetron/brown9.pdf  (pg 2)

 Microwave Generators
Encyclopedia Brittanica Online - Magnetron: typical elements
  http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-137/Typical-elements-of-a-magnetron

Fast Neutron Research Facility - Bulk Effect Semiconductors
  http://www.fnrf.science.cmu.ac.th/theory/microwave/Microwave%2014.html

Google Patent Search - United States Patent: 3434678
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HyperPhysics - Magnetron Operation
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/waves/magnetron.html

JPL/NASA Lewis Research Center - Space Qualified Hybrid Superconducting / Semiconducting Low-Noise Downconverter
  http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/24336/1/96-0364.pdf  (pg 2)

Microwave Electronics - Microwave Vacuum Devices & Maser
  http://www.isi-soft.com/docs/Books/Book21/Ch2_1.pdf  (pg 4)

Microwaves101 - MMIC semiconductor tradeoffs
  http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/MMICsemi.cfm#inphemt

Microwaves101 - Short-Slot Waveguide Hybrid
  http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/short-slot_hybrid.cfm

Microwaves101 - Waveguide primer
  http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/waveguide.cfm

PowerPedia - Wireless transmission of electricity
  http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Wireless_transmission_of_electricity#Wireless_energy_transfer_methods

QuinStar Technology, Inc. - QCA Series Cryogenic Amplifiers and Systems
  http://www.quinstar.com/qca_cryogenically_cooled_amplifiers_and_systems.html

Science Magazine - Tunable Supercurrent Through Semiconductor Nanowires
  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/309/5732/272

Stanford University - Department of Physics: History
  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/history/index.html

Stanford University - Klystron is a Microwave Generator
  http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/accelerators/klystron.html

Stanford University - Klystron Tube
  http://www.stanford.edu/home/welcome/research/klystron.html

University of Toronto - Development of the Larmor Condition
  http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~phy326/esr/esrapp.htm

Wisegeek - What is a Magentron?
  http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-magnetron.htm

 History of Microwaves
Canadian Association of Physicists - The Invention of the Cavity Magnetron
  http://www.cap.ca/wyp/profiles/Redhead-Nov01.PDF  (pg 3)

Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences - Space Solar Power for Earth from Earth Orbits and the Moon
  http://www.svu2000.org/publications/GLASER.PDF  (pg 2)

Florida State University - Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
  http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/hertz.html

Georgia Tech - Wireless Power Transmission for Solar Power Satellite
  http://www.sspi.gatech.edu/wptshinohara.pdf  (pg 6)

Gizmo Highway Technology Guide - The History of the Microwave
  http://www.gizmohighway.com/history/microwave.htm

Global Policy Forum - Background on the HAARP Project
  http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/envronmt/weapons.htm

Google Patent Search - United States Patent: 3434678
  http://www.google.com/patents?id=j3hzAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=3434678

Hammond Museum of Radio - Reginald Fessenden
  http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/fessenden.html

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Karl Ferdinand Brawn
  http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/braun.htm

IEEE Virtual Museum - The Cavity Magnetron
  http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/tech.php?id=2345892

IEEE Virtual Museum - The Future of Microwaves
  http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?taid=&id=159265&lid=1&seq=13&view=

IEEE Virtual Museum - Microwaves and Telecommunications
  http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?taid=&id=159265&lid=1&seq=10

IEEE Virtual Museum - Microwaves, Satellites, and the Final Frontier
  http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?taid=&id=159265&lid=1&seq=11

International Symposium Nikola Tesla - Research Activities and Future Trends of Microwave Wireless Power Transmission
  http://www.tesla-symp06.org/papers/Tesla-Symp06_Budimir.pdf  (pg 1)

Invention & Technology Magazine - The Greatest Discovery Since Fire
  http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2005/4/2005_4_48.shtml

Joe Craig - Marconi's First Transatlantic Wireless Experiment
  http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~jcraig/marconi.html

JPL/NASA Lewis Research Center - Superconducting/Semiconducting Low-Noise Downconverter
  http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/24336/1/96-0364.pdf

Kyoto University - Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere
  http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

Microwaves101 - Microwave Hall of Fame (Part I)
  http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/halloffame1.cfm

Microwaves101 - Microwave Hall of Fame (Part II)
  http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/halloffame2.cfm

NASA - Statement of John C. Mankins, Manager, Advanced Concepts Studies Office of Space Flight
  http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/legaff/mankins9-7.html

NASA - The Promise and the Challenge of Space Solar Power
  http://www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/jusps/KA-2.pdf  (pg 11)

National Space Society - Space Based Solar Power as an Opportunity for Strategic Security
  http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/final-sbsp-interim-assessment-release-01.pdf  (pg 10)

Nobelprize.org - The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909
  http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/

PBS - Tesla Life and Legacy - Colorado Springs
  http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html

Physicsworld - James Clerk Maxwell: A Force for Physics
  http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/26527

Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere - History of Microwave Power Transmission before 1980
  http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/plasma-group/sps/history1-e.html

Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere - Japanese Research for a Bright and Clean Energy from Space
  http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/jusps/KA-1.pdf  (pg 29)

Rutherford Research - Next Generation Field Effect Transitor (FET) Research
  http://www.rutherford-research.ca/rrx/nanotechnology/nextGenMesFet.php

Science Daily - World's Most Complex Silicon Phased-array Chip Developed
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071030135705.htm

Science Direct - European Sail Tower SPS Concept
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science

Scitation - Rocket Experiments and Demonstration for Microwave Power Transmission (MPT)
  http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet

Softpedia - Wireless Power Transmission May Soon Be a Fact
  http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireless-Power-Transmission-May-Soon-be-a-Fact-74924.shtml

Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation - Microwave Oven
  http://www.smecc.org/microwave_oven.htm

SparkMuseum - The Discovery of Radio Waves - 1888
  http://www.sparkmuseum.com/BOOK_HERTZ.HTM

Stanford University - Historical Background and Applications
  http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/kly/Lecture_Series/MURI%20Book%201.doc

Thomas Robb - Marconi Receives 1st Transatlantic Radio Signal
  http://tarobb.blogspot.com/2007/12/marconi-receives-1st-transatlantic.html

UK Office of Communications - Radio Crosses the Atlantic
  http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/ra/about/document/100years/radcross.htm

University of Toronto - Appendix III: GaAs Gunn Diodes
  http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~phy326/esr/esrapp.htm

URSI - Microwave Power Transmission Activities in the World
  http://www.ursi.org/WP/Appendices1.pdf  (pg 5, 14)

URSI - The History of SPS Research
  http://www.ursi.org/WP/WP-SPS%20final.htm#_Toc168822881

USCD Jacobs School of Engineering - Faculty Profile
  http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty_bios/findprofile.pl

 Phased Arrays
Department of the Navy - DDG 51 - Arleigh Burke Class Aegic Guided-Missile Destroyer
  http://acquisition.navy.mil/programs/ships/ddg_51

Isreali Weapons - Arrow
  http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/surface_missiles/arrow/Arrow.html

Kennesaw State Univeristy - Phased Array
  http://physci.kennesaw.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/parray.htm

LinuxDevices.com - Real-time Linux, middlewave support U.S. Aegis systems
  http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4667725014.html

Lockheed Martin - U.S. Navy Aegis Weapon System Guides Standard Missile to Target Intercept
  http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2003/LockheedMartinUSNavyAegisWeaponSyst_2.html

Navybuddies.com - Aegis Combat System
  http://www.navybuddies.com/weapons/aegis.htm

ScienceDaily - World's Most Complex Silicon Phased-array Chip Developed
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071030135705.htm

USCD Jacobs School of Engineering - Most Complex Silicon Phased Array Chip in the World Developed at UC San Diego
  http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=701

 Microwave Properties
About.com - Are Cell Phones and Microwave Radiation Really Unhealthy?
  http://environment.about.com/od/environment/a/cell_phones.htm

AT&T Long Lines - Elk Horn, IA
  http://long-lines.net/places-routes/ElkHornIA/

Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing - Effects of Atmosphere
  http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/~research/tutorial/atmoseff.htm

Environmental Waste International - Microwave Properties
  http://www.ewmc.com/Technology/Technology_microwave.html

HowStuffWorks - How Cell Phones Work
  http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone1.htm

HowStuffWorks - How Municipal WiFi Works
  http://computer.howstuffworks.com/municipal-wifi.htm

Permanent - Energy Interactions with the Atmosphere and at the Surface
  http://permanent.com/p-sps-bm.htm

Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere - MINIX Rocket Experiment
  http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/space-group/sps/minix-e.html

RITE Brain Consulting - Microwave Radio Technology & Uses
  http://www.ritebrain.net/Server%20Documents/Microwave_Radio_Technology___Use_V_1.pdf

Toddgraetz.com - Former AT&T Long-Lines Sites
  http://www.toddgraetz.com/formerat&tlong-haulsites

UK Office of Communications - Some Aspects Related to the ISM Band, especially Medical
 http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/ra/topics/research/rrac/members/rrac01_19.doc

University of Colorado - Microwaves Exert Electric Forces on Water
  http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/microwaves/water_rotates3.html

URSI - Supporting Document for the URSI White Paper on Solar Power Satellite Systems
  http://www.ursi.org/WP/SupportingDocument1.pdf  (pg 39)

Western Washington Universsity - SEARUN curricular materials
  http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~gisele/curriculum.html

 Rectennas
9th Australian Symposium on Antennas - Development of Rectenna for Microwave Power Reception
  http://www.ict.csiro.au/asa/asa05/ASA05_paper_036_final.pdf

DoE/NASA - Satellite Power System (SPS) Mapping for Exclusion Areas for Rectenna Sites
  http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/1978DOESPS-MappingOfExclusionAreasForRectennaSites.pdf  (pg 100)

Friends of CRC - SHARP
  http://www.friendsofcrc.ca/Projects/SHARP/sharp.html

IEEE Xplore - Recycling ambient microwave energy with broad-band rectenna arrays
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/22/28503/01273745.pdf?arnumber=1273745

Journal of Radioelectronics - High Power Converter of Microwaves into DC
  http://jre.cplire.ru/jre/sep99/1/text.html

Space Future - Equitorial Times No.4
  http://www.spacefuture.com/power/equatorialtimes/4.shtml

Space Studies Institute - SSI Sample Slides
  http://ssi.org/?page_id=14

URSI - Supporting Document for the URSI White Paper on Solar Power Satellite Systems
  http://www.ursi.org/WP/SupportingDocument1.pdf  (pg 44)

University of Maryland - CPSP 118G Earth, Life, and Time
  http://www.wam.umd.edu/~sscheff/WEBSITE/fieldtrip2.html

 Semiconductors
Ham-Shack - Pieces-Parts
  http://ham-shack.com/components.html

HowStuffWorks - How Semiconductors Work: Introduction to How Semiconductors Work
  http://www.howstuffworks.com/diode.htm

HowStuffWorks - How Semiconductors Work: Doping Sillicon
  http://computer.howstuffworks.com/diode1.htm

Lehrstuhl für Elektronische Bauelemente - Introduction to Semiconductor Technology
  http://www.leb.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/lehre/mm/html/start.htm

LogiTech - Gallium Arsenide
  http://www.logitech.uk.com/gallium_arsenide.asp

ThinkQuest - The p-n Junction Diode
  http://library.thinkquest.org/12666/junction.html

University of California, Berkeley - An Introduction to Microelectronics Manufacturing and Markets
  http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/courseware/ICMfg92/

 Solar Power Satellite Systems
BBC News - The final frontier for solar energy
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7131617.stm

Free Republic - Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough
  http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1330520/posts

GE Energy - How Solar Cells Work
  http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/solar/en/how_solar_work.htm

Georgia Tech - Wireless Power Transmission for Solar Power Satellite
  http://www.sspi.gatech.edu/wptshinohara.pdf  (pg 4-5)

HowStuffWorks - How Solar Cells Work
  http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cell.htm

Moon Society - Space Solar Alliance for Future Energy
  http://www.moonsociety.org/reports/space_solar_alliance.html

NASA - Solar Power Satellite Technology
  http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/2000/TM-2000-210210.pdf  (pg 6)

National Central University - Supporting Document for the URSI White Paper on Solar Power Satellite Systems
  http://www.ss.ncu.edu.tw/~ursi/record/WP_SPS_supdoc_051129.pdf  (pg 67-68)

National Geographic - Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.html

National Space Society - Space Based Solar Power
  http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/final-sbsp-interim-assessment-release-01.pdf  (pg 27)

Popular Mechanics - Space-Based Solar Power Beams Become Next Energy Frontier
  http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4230315.html?series=35

Science@NASA - How Do Photovoltaic Cells Work?
  http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/solarcells.htm

URSI - Report of the URSI Inter-Commission Working Group on SPS
  http://www.ursi.org/WP/ICWGReport070611.pdf  (pg 15)

 Superconductors
Centauri Dreams - Reconfigurable Structures in Space: Q & A
  http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1703

HyperPhysics - Conductors and Insulators
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/conins.html

HyperPhysics - Magnetic Levitation
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/solids/maglev.html

HyperPhysics - Resistance: Temperature Coefficient
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/restmp.html

HyperPhysics - The Meissner Effect
    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solids/meis.html#c2

NDT - Conductors and Insulators
  http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/HighSchool/Electricity/conductorsinsulators.htm

PhysicsLab - An Introduction to DC Circuits
  http://dev.physicslab.org/Document.aspx?doctype=3&filename=DCcircuits_IntroductionDC.xml

PhysicsLab - Electrostatics Fundamentals
  http://dev.physicslab.org/Document.aspx?doctype=3&filename=Electrostatics_ElectrostaticsFundamentals.xml

Superconductors.org - Superconductivity Explained
  http://superconductors.org/oxtheory.htm

Superconductors.org - The First Non-Cuprate High-temperature Superconductor
  http://superconductors.org/91K.htm

Superconductors.org - Type 1 Superconductors
  http://superconductors.org/Type1.htm

University of Olso - Superconducting Levitation
  http://www.fys.uio.no/super/levitation/

Wikimedia Commons - Image:CERN-cables-p1030764.jpg
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:CERN-cables-p1030764.jpg

Wikimedia Commons - Image:Cvandrhovst.png
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cvandrhovst.png

 Moon Colonization
ASCE - Civil Engineering Database (subject keyword: "space construction")
  http://cedb.asce.org/

Associated Content - Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon?
  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/384514/will_china_beat_the_united_states_back.html

Book Rags - Colonization of the Moon
  http://www.bookrags.com/Colonization_of_the_Moon

Earth & Sky - Why go back to the moon?
  http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51145/why-go-back-to-the-moon

Health Physics Society - What are the radiation levels on the moon and Mars?
  http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q1549.html

MoonConnection.com - Moon's Gravity
  http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_gravity.phtml

Moon Daily - Russia plans manned Moon mission by 2025
  http://www.moondaily.com/reports/Russia_plans_manned_Moon_mission_by_2025_999.html

NASA - Human Space Flight
  http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mars/lunarbases/html/s89_20084.html

NASA - Science, Research, and Technology News
  http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forresearchers/features/index.html

NASA Lunar Prospector - Neutron Spectrometer Results
  http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/results/neures.htm

NewScientist - China plans three-phase Moon exploration
  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3452.html

New York Times - NASA Plans Permanent Moon Base
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/space/05nasa.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

PSRD - Composition of the Moon's Crust
  http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec04/LunarCrust.html

SPACE.com - Back to the Moon: Uniting Science and Exploration
  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060516_science_tuesday.html

SPACE.com - China Unveils Ambitious Space Plans at National Space Symposium
  http://www.space.com/news/060405_nss_china.html

SPACE.com - Lunar Shields: Radiation Protection for Moon-Based Astronauts
  http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/lunarshield_techwed_050112.html

SPACE.com - Perfect Spot Found for Moon Base
  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050413_moon_perfect.html

United Nations - Treaties and Principles on Outer Space
  http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/publications/STSPACE11E.pdf  (pg 7)

Universe Today - Radiation on the Moon
  http://www.universetoday.com/2005/09/09/radiation-on-the-moon/

U.S. Department of State - Outer Space Treaty
  http://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm

WIRED - Today, Countries Battle for a Piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The Moon
  http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-12/st_essay

 Helium-3 Fusion
EFDA-JET - About Tokamaks
  http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/faqs/faq2.html#3003

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - ABC's of Nuclear Science
  http://www.lbl.gov/abc/Basic.html

NASA Stargazers - Solar Winds and CMES
  http://stargazers.gsfc.nasa.gov/students/solar_winds_cmes.htm

Northwestern University - What is solar wind?
  http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/3-what-is-solar-wind.html

Popular Mechanics - Mining The Moon
  http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/1283056.html?page=4

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory - Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
  http://www.pppl.gov/projects/pages/tftr.html

redOrbit - Glossary
  http://www.redorbit.com/education/reference_library/glossary/

SPACE.com - Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source
  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

Space Physics - Geomagnetic Storms Can Threaten Electric Power Grid
  http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/eiskappenman.html

The Space Review - A fascinating hour with Gerald Kulcinski
  http://www.thespacereview.com/article/536/1

The Triunity Report - There’s Helium-3 in them there Moon hills!
  http://www.direct.ca/trinity/helium3.htm

University of Wisconsin-Madison - General Operation II
  http://iec.neep.wisc.edu/photopages/GeneralOpPicsII.htm

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion
  http://iec.neep.wisc.edu/operation.php

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Progress and Research on 3He Fusion Reactions at UW-Madison
  http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/presentations/piefer_iec06.pdf  (pg 3)

 Geography of the Moon
Apollo: The Next Generation Return to the Moon - Moon Facts
  http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/futureflight/ffh2001/MoonFAQs/deepcrat.htm

Astronomy for Families - Moon Struck
  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/fields/8616/moonfacts.html

Keith's Moon Page - Facts, Phases, Photoes & Folklore
  http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/

Fourmilab - Lunar "seas" (Mare) and "Oceans" (Oceanus)
  http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/lunarform/maria.html

Internet Encyclopedia of Science - Celestial Mechanics
  http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/synchronous_rotation.html

Merlin Science - The Lunar Landscape
  http://www.synapses.co.uk/astro/moon3.html

NASA - Moon Fact Sheet
  http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html

Planetary Science Research Discoveries - The Moon's Dark, Icy Poles
  http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/June03/lunarShadows.html

Planetary Science Research Discoveries - Two Views of the Moon's Composition
  http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/April07/Moon2Views.html

Ralph Aeschliman Planetary Cartography and Graphics - Lunar Maps
  http://ralphaeschliman.com/id26.htm

Universities Space Research Association - Intern LPIB Issue 75, Spring 1995
  http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/lpib/lpib75/bull5.html

University of Tennessee Knoxville - Orbit and Phases of the Moon
  http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/moonorbit.html

Wikimedia Commons - Image:Orbit.svg
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Orbit.svg

Wikimedia Commons - Image:MoonTopoGeoidUSGS.jpg
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:MoonTopoGeoidUSGS.jpg

Wolfram Research - Moon
  http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/Moon.html

World Book at NASA - Moon
  http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html

 Mining Methods and Helium-3 Extraction
1st Space Exploration Conference - The Lunar Dust Problem: From Liability to Asset
  http://www.cden.ca/2005/2ndCDEN-conference/data/10201.pdf

Apollo 11 - Lunar Surface Journal
  http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11.step.html

CBC News - Rover with Canadian-made drill to test lunar mining prospects
  http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/09/21/tech-rover-drill.html

McGill University - A Review of Mining Technologies For Space
  http://www.cden.ca/2005/2ndCDEN-conference/data/10201.pdf

Ministério da Ciência & Tecnologia - Fusion Reactions
  http://www.plasma.inpe.br/LAP_Portal/LAP_Site/Text/Fusion_Reactions.htm

Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities - Nuclear Fusion
  http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI/6.3.7.2.htm

Newsweek - To Reach For The Moon
  http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/gallery/pdf/nw021207.pdf

Permanent - Mining the Lunar Surface
  http://www.permanent.com/l-mining.htm

Ralston Middle School - Lunar Site Characterization and Mining
  http://www.belmont.k12.ca.us/ralston/programs/itech/SpaceSettlement/spaceresvol3/lscam1.htm

SPACE.com - Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source
  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

Star Bulletin - UH scientists envision mining town on moon
  http://starbulletin.com/2007/02/18/news/story02.html

University of Kentucky - Bolted roof
  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/bolt_roof.htm

University of Kentucky - Continuous-mining machine
  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/Con_miner_pic.htm

University of Kentucky - Contour mining
  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/contour1.htm

University of Kentucky - Dragline
  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/dragline.htm

University of Kentucky - Methods of Mining
  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/coal_mining.htm

University of Kentucky - Surface mining
  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/surface_mining.htm

 The Moon's Resources
Encyclopedia Brittanica Online - Lunar Resources
  http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-54220/Moon

NASA - New NASA Mission to Reveal Moon's Internal Structure and Evolution
  http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/dec/HQ_07274_Grail_Mission.html

National Geographic - Oxygen-Rich Moon Minerals May Help Astronauts Breathe
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1019_051019_moon_oxygen.html

Permanent - Major Lunar Minerals
  http://www.permanent.com/l-minera.htm

Platinum Group Metals - About Platinum
  http://www.platinumgroupmetals.net/userfiles/file/AboutPlatinum_Sept2007.pdf  

Sol Station - Asteroid Mining
  http://members.fcac.org/~sol/station/ast-mine.htm

Space.com - The Resources of the Moon and Beyond
  http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moon_resources_050223.html

University of Houston - Mining the Moon
  http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi430.htm


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