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EMA's Experience and Expertise

EMA's Customers

EMA's customers include aircraft developers, aerospace corporations, major railroads, defense corporations, electronics corporations, power companies, automotive industries, testing laboratories, aircraft certification agencies, military laboratories and agencies, cellular phone manufacturers, NASA, and the FAA. EMA has provided services to customers in North America, Western Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Some of Our Areas of Experience and Expertise

Lightning physics and effects

• Lightning interaction with aircraft
• Lightning interaction with carbon fiber composite (CFC) structures
• Lightning protection of railroad signal and communication systems

High altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse

• Source region nuclear electromagnetic pulse
• System generated electromagnetic pulse
• Underground nuclear test predictions
• Transient radiation effects on electronics (TREE)
• Photon (gamma ray) interaction with cables

Electromagnetic compatibility

• EMC analysis of LRU's and printed circuit boards
• Single and multi-conductor cable responses
• AC induction mitigation on railroad signal systems

High power microwave (HPM)

• High power microwave source development
• Ultra wideband antenna design and fabrication

Electrostatic discharge (ESD)

• Antenna analysis
• Radar cross section analysis
• Ultra wideband radar
• Mine detection
• High intensity radiated fields (HIRF)
• High intensity radiated fields (HIRF)
• Bioelectromagnetics
• Special purpose electromagnetic computer development
• Custom software development

EMP coupling to equipment shelters and enclosures

• MIL-STD-285 shielding effectiveness
• Development of test methods for measuring enclosure seam impedances "in situ"
• System hardening
• Hardening of C3I facilities

Electromagnetic Instrumentation Development

• EMP testing of ships
• Design, fabrication and implementation of a helicopter borne electric field measurement system
• Design and construction of a large scale lightning test facility
• Full scale lightning testing of aircraft and missiles
• ESD testing of missiles, rockets
• Measurement of rocket plume electromagnetic characteristics

Other Technologies

• Relativistic charged particle beams, accelerators and diagnostics
• Advanced technology electron sources
• Ionizing radiation measurements
• Numerical modeling of radiation transport
• Interaction of particle beams with materials