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The goal of this effort is to demonstrate an high efficient photodetector to replace the conventional photo multiplier tubes (PMT) in gamma radiation detection process. In the proposed effort. Cermet will grow and fabricate ZnO based photodetectors for the detector of scintillated light in the wavelength region between 340 and 430nm. The proposed technology will bring an improved, high efficient p ...

The detection and classification of toxic industrial chemicals (TICS) is an important capability to the nation’s defense forces, first responder units, and law enforcement, not to mention the more traditional needs in industrial monitoring and control, construction, and even household applications. First responders, in all levels of government, need to be warned of the presence and type of TICS ...

Passage in 1996 of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) and Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDW) reflected these concerns and required EPA to develop a screening program, using appropriate validation test systems and other scientifically relevant information, to determine whether certain substances may have an endocrine effect in wildlife and humans. The proposed work will result in ...

This project addresses the problem of the wireless transfer of power between a source and nearby mobile platform such as a robotic vehicle. The primary objective of this research will be to design and evaluate, by analysis and computer modeling, an inductively-coupled system consisting of an optimally-designed configuration of transmitting coils to maximize the coupling efficiency though a target ...

Perchlorate threatens the drinking water supplies of more than 20 million people in the United States and the number keeps growing. The cost of treating perchlorate and other emergent contaminants in drinking water using ion exchange resins, nanofiltration and granular activated carbon (GAC) is a growing financial burden to many municipal and regional water boards. PLANTECO Environmental Consu ...

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The primary goal of the work to be accomplished under this SBIR Phase II effort is the implementation of an efficient and reliable wireless Circular Trellis Coded Wavelet Packet Modulation System (CTCWPMS). The developed prototype CTCWPMS will moreeffectively address a variety of wireless communications challenges that cannot be met using conventional Fourier source and channel coding methods. M ...

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This Phase I SBIR project intends to demonstrate the feasibility of a freshwater microbial community microarray called the WaterChipTM, for detecting the presence of an important model for mercury chemical pollutant in freshwater. By demonstrating its utility for detecting evidence of this pollutant, the basis for expanding the WaterChips capability to other environmental toxins and pollutants wi ...