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Applied Diamond will make large area particle detectors of CVD diamond for use in nuclear physics experiments at DOE and other laboratories. These detectors will reduce the operating expense and increase the capabilities of these facilities accelerating advances in nuclear science.

This program develops a novel membrane module which produces low cost oxygen enriched air. This program will 1) reduce energy requirements for small or medium size furnaces by up to 60% and 2) provide high CO2 concentration exhaust streams for enhanced concentrating of CO2 for CO2 sequestering.

Future basic science, engineering and medical discoveries depend upon tools with ever more precise timing measurements. Our technology provides low-cost, low power solutions usable by scientists across multiple disciplines.

Robots can drop pieces of plastic or metal in a pattern to build something but new software is needed to make the path the robot needs to follow. This work will build software that runs on high performance computers to determine the correct printing paths for the robots.

Low‐cost, power‐efficient, time‐resolved imaging is increasingly important for Department of Energy remote‐sensing operations. Today’s remote‐sensing operations use photocathode‐based technologies, such as intensified CCDs and CMOS cameras, hybrid image tubes, and hybrid cross‐strip anode image intensifiers. These solutions are expensive, bulky, cannot support high count rates, hav ...

The Company’s development is addressing one of the most basic human needs: access to potable water. Without adequate potable water, society succumbs to human suffering i.e. dehydration, disease and inevitably limited supply results in human conflict. There is therefore a need for an efficient, and cost effective method of producing quality potable water from low grade sources such as brackish or ...

Reliance on fishmeal and fish oil is a significant constraint to aquaculture expansion in America, and globally. As U.S. marine fish farming expands, genetic improvements could increase economic performance and decrease ecological footprint. This is critically important to sustainability, scalability and profitability of the industry, and is key to attracting capital investment. Commercial opportu ...

Initial research into potential in-situ KA sensor technologies has uncovered viable sensor technologies and demonstrated the existence of exploitable features that could discriminate between objects of similar shape and size, but very different materials and internal structure. A few different KA sensor types have been hypothesized and it is likely that more than one sensor type is necessary to co ...

The primary objective of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II proposed effort is to develop and test Post-Intercept Assessment (PIA) strategies and feature calculation methodologies using high-fidelity, physics-based (hydro-code) modeling of missile defense engagements. The effort will leverage emerging SBIR/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) technologies being developed ...

The proposed work improves modeling impact and sensor response. More accurate predictions of the relevant debris scenes will be accomplished by improving material characterization methods, implementing new numerical damage mechanisms, and utilizing those mechanisms with enhanced material modeling capabilities to evaluate the tearing response. Additionally, improvements regarding simulated sensor ...