Development of Thermal Spray Circuit Board (TSCB) Technology to Replace Electorplating and Print and Etch Circuit Board Fabrication Techniques

Not Available The ever increasing susceptibility of military and commercial aircraft, especially the fly-by-wire aircraft, to internal and external EMI sources has been well documented. The accelerated proliferation of personal electronic devices (PED) on board aircraft, increasing numbers and variety of commercial and military communication and radar transmitters, and ever present threat of RF terrorism and warfare necessitates the development of advanced aircraft EMI safety concepts. An advanced in-situ EMI monitoring system concept for future military and commercial aircraft will be designed and developed under this SBIR program. The system is capable of continuously monitoring the aircraft EMI and warn if the EMI susceptibility threshold has been exceeded on any mission critical LRU, localize the responsible internal EMI source, monitor and warn against hardening feature degradations, and detect and warn against external EMI threats.