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ExMat Research proposes to develop a hardened and cost-scalable laser-based temperature diagnostic system capable of spatially quantifying the localized temporal evolution of temperature in a detonation environment. During Phase I, we will attempt to determine the technical feasibility of the proposed concept. While ExMat Research will be guiding and overseeing the overall project, Washington Stat ...

The purpose of this initiative is to develop a revolutionary shear-sensitive film that when applied to a surface under hypersonic flow conditions, would allow for global and instantaneous measurements of wall shear stress.  The shear-sensitive film will have a temporal resolution greater than or equal to 1KHz, will be capable of measuring shear stresses up to 250Pa or greater, and will be capabil ...

An AI-based algorithm is being proposed to increase ADC linearity by 10dB. Neural Nets will be investigated in conjunction with models of spurs to accomplish the task.

Virtual EM is proposing a method to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency in full-wave CEM codes by using high-order curved elements. Virtual EM’s own commercial product VirAntenn™ will provide the CEM setting for both developing and implementing the new capability in Phase I and Phase II, respectively. Using multi-wavelength long cells with high-order basis forms ...

The objective is to develop and package a compact integrated optical transmitter operating at a wavelength near 1 micrometer for balanced radio-frequency (RF) photonic link applications on air platforms. The transmitter must have performance requirements that support high-performance balanced RF link specifications such as RF noise figures below 25 dB (no RF or optical amplification) when connecte ...

In this proposed SBIR program, IBC Materials & Technologies, in conjunction with our industry partner Mechanical Solutions, Inc. (MSI) and Texas A&M University, will leverage our knowledge and experience in the domain of industrial metallic coatings to develop a metallurgical coating solution for the Air Foil Bearing. IBC has deep expertise in a variety of industrial coating processes including mu ...

Oceanit proposes to develop and demonstrate novel, tailored, designer separator materials with optimized properties to maximize lithium-ion cell/battery performance, life, safety and reliability.

In the Phase-I project Avomeen LLC will advance the manufacturing technology that has already developed thermally stable separators in-house. In Phase I project, Avomeen will develop thermally stable separator and related low cost manufacturing process to achieve high energy/power density lithium ion batteries with enhanced safety. Currently micro-porous material and glass material are using as a ...

Navy needs a real-time graph embedding tool for analyzing huge graphs (millions of nodes and billions of edges) from diverse sources. However, current approaches cannot provide dynamic and scalable graph analytics to show the military value of tactical data. In this project, InfoBeyond advocates EStreaming (Embedding & Streaming) for scalable and efficient graph streaming. EStreaming promotes big ...

While aluminum casing materials provide some enhanced performance and thermal loading to explosive ordinance, their overall effectiveness is highly limited by incomplete combustion and long residence times. In order to reduce these problems, the casing material must be designed to facilitate rapid fragmentation through either specialized casing geometries or greatly refined initial particle sizes. ...