Research opportunities include research in the areas of compact energy storage and pulsed power, aerothermal protection systems for flight vehicles, high-strength and dielectric structural materials, and system interfaces between high-power loads and platform power distribution networks.

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Perfect for users demanding high performance and high capacity from their portable storage device, the G-Technology G-DRIVE mini features a sleek compact and durable all-aluminum enclosure and storage capacities up to 1TB using HGST Travelstar 7, 200 RPM drives.

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Living and sleeping areas are at either end of a compact core that conceals structure, storage and the bathroom.

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The conventional logic has it that Li-ion offers greater storage in a more compact space compared to the less expensive NiMH.

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P3 folds up for easy storage, and stows away into its own compact hard-shell carry case.

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Flash memory has played an important role in these mobile consumer devices because it is rugged, flash memory chips can be stacked to enable compact devices, it uses small amounts of battery power and enough storage capacity can be included to make these devices useful for some common tasks such as email and media playing.

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The compact, ultra slim Android 4.0 tablet ships with a 1GHz processor and 4GB memory storage.

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It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.

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