Abstract: A method and apparatus is devised for detecting command wires utilized to detonate an improvised explosive device or other objects of interest in which frequency-scanned RF in the HF region of the electromagnetic spectrum is projected out across a given area and returns are detected and converted into image data in which phase, amplitude, range and frequency associated with the incoming data is correlated with frequency-dependent range templates to determine the existence of, the range of and the direction of command wires or other objects of interest.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is devised for detecting objects of interest in which frequency-scanned RF in the HF region of the electromagnetic spectrum is projected out across a given area and returns are detected and converted into image data in which phase, amplitude, range and frequency associated with the incoming data is correlated with frequency-dependent range templates to determine the existence of, the range of and the direction of the objects of interest.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is devised for detecting objects of interest in which frequency-scanned RF in the HF region of the electromagnetic spectrum is projected out across a given area and returns are detected and converted into image data in which phase, amplitude, range and frequency associated with the incoming data is correlated with frequency-dependent range templates to determine the existence of, the range of and the direction of the objects of interest.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is devised for detecting command wires utilized to detonate an improvised explosive device or other objects of interest in which frequency-scanned RF in the HF region of the electromagnetic spectrum is projected out across a given area and returns are detected and converted into image data in which phase, amplitude, range and frequency associated with the incoming data is correlated with frequency-dependent range templates to determine the existence of, the range of and the direction of command wires or other objects of interest.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is manufactured by screen printing a layer of valve metal powder ink in an array of pads, placing a valve metal pellet on end on each pad, and sintering the resulting assembly to produce an array of porous sintered pellets bonded through a graded density layer to said substrate. Next the assembly is electrolytically anodized to form a valve metal oxide over its surfaces. An insulating polymer may be applied to the substrate around the pellets, and the pellets are impregnated and coated with manganese dioxide. A conductive layer and counterelectrode are applied over the manganese dioxide, and the anodic oxide is removed from the reverse side of the substrate. The array may be separated into individual capacitors.

Abstract: The oxygen content of tantalum is reduced by intimately contacting the tantalum with an alkali metal halide, reacting them in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a maximum temperature of 1200.degree. C. to form and expel the tantalum halide and alkali metal oxide formed by the reaction, and then raising the temperature to 1400.degree. C. for no longer than 10 min. to volatilize any excess alkali metal halide. The tantalum may be in the form of a powder or a porous sintered pellet, and an improved product for electrolytic capacitors, with lower leakage current, is obtained.

Abstract: In a two-stage differential anodization of valve-metal pellets in which the second stage is carried out at a high voltage and with a different electrolyte than the first, underformed spots on the pellets are eliminated in the second stage by adding 0.01-1.0 wt. % of a nonionic surfactant to the second stage electrolyte.

Abstract: An array of porous oxide-filmed tantalum pads that are sintered to a tantalum foil, each have a composite MnO.sub.2 layer formed thereover by the steps of filling the pad pores with a manganous nitrate solution by capillarity from a sponge-like reservoir pressed gently against the pads, pyrolyzing, screen printing over the first MnO.sub.2 sublayer a thixotropic mixture of MnO.sub.2 powder and manganous nitrate and pyrolyzing, and again depositing from the sponge-like reservoir a quantity of manganous nitrate and pyrolyzing again. A counterelectrode is formed over the composite MnO.sub.2 layer at the top of each pad. A temporary masking layer is deposited over each of the counterelectrodes. The streets separating the pads, and the pads themselves are flooded with an insulative resin. Excess resin is removed with a squeegee and the resin is cured. The masking layer is removed and slots are gouged in the resin in the alternate of the columnar streets, which alternate streets are wider than the others.

Abstract: A solid tantalum capacitor is made by screen printing on a tantalum substrate, a thick mixture of tantalum powder and a binder, sintering the printed layer, forming a dielectric oxide, and forming a counterelectrode. A large number of capacitors may be so made on a single substrate and thereafter individual or groups of capacitors are separated, and may have leads attached thereto. The planar geometries provide simple packaging on conventional DIP's and in hybrid integrated circuits.