DIAPOLE MATERIALS AND VADO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A002500040009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 15, 1964
• Content Type: TRIP

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Diapole Materials and VA MO
1. Discussion started with
tet on the post record and history of the ci
is rove of a pates factory than a imnufbaturing
1pre a abort
dirpole ante! theory, o-.r
televi>isnt, can also be app
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e len
of visible light. Li ht i' an electron tie p :nor.:.e Find revct
much the same as ni.:crrw eves if the antennae are scaled do to the
size of a hei.f>weve length of vi-Able, light; that is, rinute antennae,
in the fora of muriade ultrn-!mall, diapole pejelc : .auup ded in
a n t n, react with ligrt in the same manner that r 1rrTe c~ele
diepole ant reapia to a T.V. ^ x. Minute dispole ontoxnw
can be designed to r eeve, reflect, m uleto or attenuate the thorti
le the of l.Iht by changing their orientation, the ratio of
their length to width and/or their electrical resistsx :t .
3. Light can be cc troUed in Intensity, color and poloriz-tion
by these di?poles dispersed is a plastic solution to t?ca r collodirl.,
suspension. Orientation of the diapolca is controlled by applyin
netic field in such a urar that the diapoles align themselves
with the !tic lines of force. Proper control of the magnetic
field can rake the col3oide tree. par t, opaque or polorized, etc.,
dependent upon the ;.iapole orientation.
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4. There are many poteutt l uses of this t
shuttters, continuously variable density filter
!avenge intensifiers end image modulators, etc.
t Volvo. Ctmabixiix a Diepole device with a
nd advanced high intensity rear-projection
by a L.Y. or I.R. source. The photoconductor produces a va.ring current
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associated vV msgnettc ?'ield which, in turn, contz the :li z-
mutt of the dispolea resulting in diepoie mask replica of the orUinal
in sity source to fc the image on the screen. The advantage i:j that
reducing the film heating probes since the high tntrncity light never
pessee through the film, The unit acts as c Licht amplificetiou circuit
in ash the some manner that a vacuum tube or atni-cc uctor function
in a radio circuit.
6. The IAA!? t ?te tala might p
medium in the tort of a molecular
photo sensitive when an electric
its energy level.
e which only became
Led to the film rai ping
. 7. VADO a aterie lac Were Originally developed to be used for pilots.
gels for atomic flash protection. Ste, exposure to intense light
turns the material o que. Once the light flesh pcsseth,the film reelear
8$
tre us progress in
superior to the materie
9. The Devi
and at
'ADO and Diappi.e mate rtsl{Li They have
e months. These me-terials are .far
w detwustreted in June,
nch :mould give aertou. consideration to
breadboard type research utilizing, the
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aterest in Diapole technolot
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