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Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) offers a powerful technique for changing the surface properties of a material while maintaining the bulk properties. This allows one to create a new class of materials where one combines excellent bulk properties of lower cost materials, such as copper, with desirable surface properties of rare or expensive materials, such as tungsten, platinum, titanium, molybdenum, ...

Continuous monitoring of bioelectrical signals can provide valuable insight to subjects stress, fatigue, resilience, and overall health. A rugged, miniaturized, low-power integrated circuit that has the ability to detect a wide variety of signals using noncontact electrodes lends itself to a valuable platform for a wearable system to assess an individuals physical and mental status. We propose suc ...

In this STTR, OASIS Inc, with partners the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington (APL-UW) proposes to develop an innovative, interactive submarine acoustic counter detect TDA for use by the Submarine Mission Planners, within the AN/BYG-1. Communicating the environmental and tactical uncertainty is of primary importance when present ...

This proposal is a collaborative effort between MRV Systems and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, with additional support from RBR Global and Rockland Scientific. The goal is to develop a new, small, inexpensive autonomous vehicle to investigate mixed layer dynamics and turbulent mixing. The preliminary Phase I design, a Diagonally Operating Platform (DOP), is a profiling float with moveab ...

A rugged, laser-free design of electrically controlled MV-class, ns-sub-ns switch is proposed to develop in Phase I. The novel switch design is based on combination of Drift Step Recovery Diode, and inverse-switchable dynistor used as a closing circuit and correspondingly matched charging/discharging resonant pulsed circuitry. The approach is capable of generating of fraction of MV pulses at up to ...

Digital equalizers have been the major enablers in RF communications in terms of managing component imperfections and channel impairments. Specifically, the ever increasing processing power of the dedicating computing processors has availed a steady increase in the ability of complex communication systems to deal with impairments as well as allowing higher capacities in the information transfer. O ...

To address the need for corrosion inhibiting surface modifications to limit or control cathodic current density on structural materials, Luminit, LLC, and the Advanced Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University propose to develop a new Corrosion Resistant Enhanced Surface Technology (CREST) system based on a modification to our electrophoretic deposition manufacturing process which presently f ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop printed, high-efficiency phased arrays operating at Navy-relevant frequencies. The proposed development effort will include trade studies identifying the best printing technique or combination of techniques to meet the Navys phased array performance goals. The printed array will incorporate both printed radiating elements and an innovative printed p ...

Agiltron will develop robust and affordable anti-icing and ice-phobic surfaces that are also transparent (>%80) in visible spectrum for superstructures of surface ships in Arctic and cold region operation. Leveraging Agiltron"s previous experiences in mechanically durable superhydrophibic nanocomposite coatings and optically transparent fluoropolymer resins, in collaboration with the Ice Research ...

IFOS proposes to develop a fiber-optic-based sensing system and a unified damage mechanism model utilizing an integrated fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor system for prediction of remaining useful life of rotorcraft structures. The proposed new rotorcraft damage modeling technique makes it possible to incorporate temperature and acoustic emission (AE) measurements with load tracking techniques for ...