Potential applications include motor drives, power supplies, and well logging; high power microwave applications such as phased array radar; automotive applications such as combustion sensors; DoD's mostly electric aircraft and tank programs, monitoring nuclear reactors, and aeronautical engine controls. Future NASA missions outlined in Decadal Survey of Solar System Exploration all involve operation in extreme environments of temperature, pressure, and radiation. Venus Surface Exploration and Venus Sample Return, both of which require surface operation including sample acquisition from 15-20 cm depth of hard rock and in-situ sensing (temperature, pressure etc.), will significantly benefit from the proposed program.
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