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Chronically implanted neural electrodes are used to treat various neurological and neuropsychological disorders and for brain-machine interfaces used to control advanced prosthetics. Powering these systems with batteries is risky due to loss of power and energy over time, necessitating additional surgery, creating a lapse in treatment and additional risks from potential exposure to toxic material. ...

Lynntech is developing an energy efficient desalination technology for small scale applications.The energy requirements for traditional desalination processes such as reverse osmosis can be as high as 30 Wh/L when producing potable water from seawater at small scale production rates.During the Phase I project, Lynntech developed a novel desalination technology and demonstrated an energy efficiency ...

The objective of this proposal is to fully evolve a plug cluster aerospike design, moving from state-of-the-art computational analysis to manufacturing, ground testing, and then a full stage integration ground test. If the phase II option is exercised, the aerospike would be flight tested as well. The computational analysis is already well underway, with numerous studies producing results that hav ...

High-performance, high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADC) are becoming essential building blocks in many applications including wireless modems, optical communications, test equipment such as real-time oscilloscopes, and high-energy particle physics (e.g., CERN), to name a few. While several ADC architectures have been proposed, time-interleaved (TI) SAR (Successive Approximation Register) A ...

In Phase I, LPTI proved f the concept of high efficiency narrow-band mirror in photo-thermo-refractive glass (PTRG) for high power Nd:YAG laser. In Phase II, a number of photo-thermo-refractive diffractive optical elements (PTR HOEs) including both reflecting and transmitting volume gratings, will be fabricated for different types of high power lasers, and high power beam control will be demonstra ...

Theseus Logic, in partnership with FTL Systems, intends to integrate test and verification into their commercial design automation tool that will aid the designer by providing the means to automatically insert testability into clockless circuits. Success in this endeavor will eliminate one of the remaining obstacles that hinders widespread adoption of asynchronous design approaches for DoD and com ...

The DARPA Phraselator currently deployed in overseas military operations is capable of translating spoken English language phrases into audible Pashto, Urdu, Dari, and Arabic language phrases. Although usable, the Phraselator is highly vulnerable to typical military environment noise resulting in significant loss of accuracy due to the limitations of existing microphone technology. Therefore the ...

This program will provide a key manufacturing breakthrough for high-performance inexpensive miniature SEMs. We plan to develop a MEMS, microassembly-based, fully functional mini-SEM having 1/10,000 the volume of current units. Zyvex is a dynamic small firm with a highly qualified technical team, experienced management, and the advantage of a $25M / 5 year NIST-ATP award that is funding the continu ...

In this STTR program, technology created in Professor John Bowers research group at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) to fabricate silicon photonics based integrated lasers, including wafer bonded III-V gain elements and ultra-low loss silicon nitride waveguides and microresonators, will be utilized to develop ultra-coherent integrated laser devices that are widely tunable. Nov ...

Commonly used water treatment approaches to mitigate phosphorus pollution and its consequences in small watersheds include the use of chemicals to precipitate phosphorus or algaecides to terminate algal growth. Both approaches require the addition of chemicals to the waterbodies resulting in biomass/sludge build-up, solid precipitates and/or potential toxicity from added metal salts. There is a hi ...