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The technology, theory and fabrication of artificial materials and metamaterials have seen impressive progress in the last few years, and various applied fields have benefited of the great flexibility of electromagnetic response that metamaterials may provide at microwaves, infrared (IR) and/or optical frequencies. Negative-refractive and zero-permittivity metamaterials have indeed been proposed f ...

Understanding and minimizing RF loss in tunable components is key to the successful integration of this technology in high performance wireless devices. Filter applications, in particular, fundamentally require extremely low loss to operate efficiently. Agile’s high-frequency tunable filter development efforts using BST have found that loss due to surface or series resistance (Rs) is a significa ...

The objective of this project is to implement and demonstrate a new robotic system enabling Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) that improves surgical care of warfighters and their families. The proposed NOTES system will be used for many military and civilian surgery needs, especially on natural orifice diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis at a role 2 facility with re ...

This program is to develop multi-layered,light weight armor alloys systems that offer improved fragmentation and armor piercing performance as compared to any other monolithic structures. Such alloys and laminated configuration will be developed by utilizing advanced computational techniques to assist in the development of complimentary alloys that would provide an optimal combination of hardness ...

The duties of modern military personnel often require the completion of challenging tasks, in stressful environments, and with multiple demands competing for the warfighter’s focus. Measuring the stress, anxiety, uncertainty, and fatigue (SAUF) of the warfighter during a particular task would have multiple benefits: (1) commanders would be able to detect problems and reallocate workload or addre ...

Hemorrhagic shock remains a leading cause of death for soldiers on the battlefield. The first 60 minutes following a traumatic injury is vital to saving lives; therefore, it is critical to provide medical personnel with real time monitoring of soldiers with traumatic injuries. Recent research indicates, however, that no single measure alone is sufficient to determine the severity of hemorrhage in ...

This research leads to improved and enhanced versions of the Cal Poly P-Pod and Ecliptic RocketPod cubesat-class (picosat) carrier/deployment systems designed for frequent, recurring use onboard EELV-class U.S. launch vehicles starting in 2008. Enhancements include more robust environmental qualification levels, standardized interfaces with the host platform, leveraging of available host platform ...

The objective of this project is the development of an assessment system that will be able to determine the likelihood of a warrior having suffered a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The basis of the determination will be a computerized assessment of the functioning of the II, III, IV, VI, and VIII cranial nerves. This set of nerves provides the opportunity to obtain a sensitive and quantitativ ...

In response to the Army’s STTR Topic A09A-T008- entitled “Ultraviolet and blue compact laser sources for scalable quantum computing,” Kaai Inc, proposes the development of a external cavity fiber coupled high efficiency GaN laser diode as a revolutionary source toward practical quantum computing based on ion trapping. Kaai is well suited for this effort as its co-founder, Dr. Shuji Nakamura ...

Exploitation of the THz radio frequency regime (>100 GHz) is seriously hampered by the relative dearth of compact, efficient sources. We propose to extend the klystron RF amplifier, with its high power and efficiency, to the THz regime through the use of MEMS based fabrication techniques developed for micro-turbine and micro-rocket applications. We predict power density of approximately 20 W/cc, ...