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This SBIR Phase II project will develop energy-aware compiler techniques to reduce power and energy consumption in microprocessors, without affecting performance. Over the past few years, energy consumption by computers has emerged as a major area of intellectual and commercial activity. A key principle behind this approach is to use speculative information available at compile time to reduce powe ...

This SBIR Phase II project involves the creation of an innovative Methodology and software Toolkit that can substantially improve the supply chain of virtually any manufacturing firm. The proposed Support Tools offers a comprehensive system that combines the best of the "software only" and the "best-practices" approaches with a framework to create a new paradigm for production system improvement. ...

This Small Business Innovative Research Phase II project addresses the development of Innovative Ultra-Broadband Ferrite Circulators/Isolators. A conventional 3-port ferrite stripline junction circulator involves a low-Q ferrite stripline resonator so that at the circulation frequencies standing-wave resonant modes are excited dumping microwave energy from the input port to the output port but no ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposes to develop the Liquid Phase Epitaxy (LPE) of potassium tantalum niobate (KTN) on a cubic perovskite substrate. In this manner both components of the film/substrate composite may be optimized for device performance. KTN has almost two orders of magnitude higher electrooptic coefficients than current generation lithium niobate waveguides, which would permit sh ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project targets the synthesis of very large-scale integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on chip (SoC) in very short CPU time. The expected short CPU time comes from relying on binary decision diagram (BDDs) that replaced the traditional algebraic representations used pervasively in present-day tools. This Phase II SBIR project is devoted to developi ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II will develop and commercialize electrochemically operated devices that will revolutionize the oral hygiene industry by providing an on-demand generation of mouthwash in a portable device and in an irrigator. The mouthwash generated in these devices will be effective in controlling halitosis and dental plaque and will also provide tooth whiten ...

This SBIR Phase II project concerns the development of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells with improved power density (kW/L) and specific power (kW/kg), reduced cost, and simplified assembly. A new type of electrically conductive polymer sheet has been developed that can be used as both, gas diffusion layer and bipolar plate in PEM fuel cells. The material is light, inexpensive, highly cond ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to develop innovative miniature con-focal laser scanning sensors for semiconductor packaging processes by using diode laser detector array chips. There are no moving parts in this sensor for scanning, unlike other con-focal devices. This sensor with a fast imaging rate will be integrated with chip IC placement robot machines, to inspect sol ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project proposes to develop a new type of optical dispersion element that combines a relief grating with appropriately optimized dielectric films to achieve both high dispersion and high efficiency into one diffraction order, independent of polarization. Grating efficiency is critical for wavelength management in modern fiber-optic telecommunication ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project introduces a new reactive joining process for mounting heat sinks onto chips, chip packages and substrates. The process uses reactive multi-layer foils as local heat sources for melting solder layers, and consequently bonding the components. The foils are a new class of nano-engineered materials, in which self-propagating exothermic r ...