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The Phase 2 work would allow us prototyping and delivering a beam steering system for energy web by optimizing the materials, the components, and the architecture of the relay nod. the objectives of the work are: 1. Developing cycloidal diffractive waveplates (CDWs), the planar geometrical phase analog of a prism, with enhanced optical properties with respect to efficiency and functionality that ...

This project will establish the clear feasibility of bonded GaN-GaAs heterostructures to enable wide-bandgap heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with an unprecedented combination of high power, speed, and linearity at high frequencies (>10 GHz). Over the past decade, GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have matured in reliability and performance and set the standard in high- ...

For Phase 2 of this effort, Tulip Tree Technology, LLC proposes to create the CVE identification tool, Warren. Warren will take in a set of firmwares and script that can throw a payload to exercise a given CVE. It will run those firmwares in our proprietary analytical emulation environment Emerson. Once each target is running, Warren will throw the proof-of-concept exploit at each running instance ...

The Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2) proposes to develop a low-power, embeddable electronic module that provides coherence between an array of consumer devices, allowing the devices to be used in reception and transmission beamforming applications. In a previous Phase II SBIR (NASA contract #80NSSC20C0090), IC2 developed a ‘Time Synchronization Module’ (TSM) as a subsection of a ...

Conventional shortwave infrared (SWIR), midwave infrared (MWIR), and long-wave (LWIR) III-V (e.g. gallium indium antimonide, or GaInSb) and II-VI (e.g. mercury cadmium telluride, or HgCdTe) epitaxial semiconductor materials show useful performance for various infrared photodetection applications, but their high-cost and substantial cooling requirements seriously limit the wide field deployment of ...

Quantum Technology Sciences, Inc. (Quantum) proposes to adapt for maritime littoral operation its TRL-9 land-based SADAR system of networked seismic-acoustic phased arrays that detects, locates, tracks, and classifies vibrational energy from specified sources of interest. This Phase II project will demonstrate the capability and value of fielding a littoral system for monitoring onshore activity. ...

The Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2) proposes to develop a low-power, wearable ultrasonic dosimeter including an instrumentation-grade, ultrasonic microphone using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) piezoelectric sensing, advanced packaging technology, and low-power analog and digital electronics. The goal of this research is to develop microphones and low-power electronics that w ...

According to a recent survey, 178 million trips are taken across U.S.’s 46,000 structurally deficient bridges every day. Due to concerns over their actual load-carrying capacity, some of these bridges have posted weight and speed restrictions. The lack of enforcement of these load postings is an issue nationwide and presents risks for human lives and costly failures. To address this issue, this ...

Curing concrete properly is essential for strength gain and durability. While the importance of curing is widely known, all too often curing is not properly executed in practice. This proposal outlines a sensing system that will have three functions: · to record the weather conditions during the concrete placement. · to document how the implemented curing impacts a known concrete system. · to p ...

Food deserts are among the major contributing factors to food insecurity. There are more than 6,500 food desert tracts in the U.S., home to 23.5 million Americans. Rural food deserts are more than 10 miles from the nearest grocery store, and this distance poses extraordinary challenges for those who do not have a vehicle or cannot drive. In urban food deserts, people's grocery store inaccessibilit ...