THE PROPOSED PROGRAM IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIQUE TECHNIQUE BY WHICH A LARGE MOSAIC ARRAY OF SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE SILICON RESISTORS, EACH SUSPENDED ACROSS A HOLLOW CAVITY, ISFABRICATED USING CONVENTIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) TECH NOLOGY.

THE PROPOSED PROGRAM IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIQUE TECHNIQUE BY WHICH A LARGE MOSAIC ARRAY OF SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE SILICON RESISTORS, EACH SUSPENDED ACROSS A HOLLOW CAVITY, ISFABRICATED USING CONVENTIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) TECH NOLOGY. EACH RESISTOR, HEATED RENT IS CONTROLLED BY A METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR (MOS) TRANSISTOR CIRCUIT, WHICH IS ALSO FABRICATED ALONGSIDE EACH RESISTOR. THE RESULTANT MOS- RESISTOR ARRAY PROVIDES A HIGHLY-CONTROLLABLE INFRARED (IR) SCENE GENERATOR CAPABLE OF MEETING ALL THE DIVERSE REQUIRE MENTS. A FOCUSED, THREE-PHASE PROGRAM IS DELINEATED WITH PHASE PROGRAM IS DELINEATED WITH PHASE I AIMED AT DEMONSTRATING THE CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF THE MOS-RESISTOR ARRAY TECH NOLOGY WITH LOW RISK; PHASE II AIMED AT SCALING THIS TECH NOLOGY TO DEMONSTRATE A 128 X 128 GENERATOR ARRAY WITH INTERCONNECTING SUPPORT ELECTRONICS; AND PHASE 3 AIMED AT INTEGRATING A COMPLETE GENERATOR ARRAY OF 512 X 512 WITH CONTROL ELECTRONICS, COMPUTER DATA MANAGEMENT AND FULL RADIO METRIC CALIBRATION.