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The Navy desires to equip P-3s and similar future aircraft with UAVs that can be launched from a standard A-size sonobouy tube and return real-time information including video images from remote locations for further analysis and action. Lite Machines has developed an electric-powered rotary-wing UAV having a cylindrical body and a counter-rotating, coaxial, rotor system, that fits within these ti ...

In this STTR effort, Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI), in collaboration with our academic and industrial partners will design, develop, and demonstrate a more efficient and compact, silicon optical modulator based on nanoscale photonic structures that is completely compatible with standard CMOS processing. The structures developed will form the building blocks for a family of devices b ...

Tienta Sciences, Inc. is currently engaged in the development of novel, tunable super-lenses (TSL) for nanoscale optical sensing and imaging of bio-molecules with Purdue University. The tunable super lens will utilize negative-index materials (NIMs) that operate in the visible or near infrared light. Preliminary results have indicated that these NIMs can create a lens that will overcome the diffra ...

The U.S. Navy desires the use of Unmanned Surface Vessels in littoral water regions for the mission of Mine Counter Measures. In particular, the use of the standard Navy Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIBs) for such a mission is desirable to decrease dependence on traditional, high operating cost assets, increase mission endurance and maneuverability and the removal of personnel from harm's way. ...

In this STTR effort, Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI), in collaboration with our academic and industrial partners will design, develop, and demonstrate an electro-optically activated, silicon-based laser based on specially designed nanoscale photonic structures. The technology to be developed and matured in this effort will overcome the main limitations to realization of the high-densi ...

In this STTR Phase I effort, Structured Materials Industries, Inc., www.structuredmaterials.com (SMI) and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany - State University of New York (SUNY), will develop process and hardware technology for continuous production of YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO) coated conductors with significantly improved current carrying capacity. Improv ...

It has been demonstrated that High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) can be employed to rapidly and non-invasively induce hemostasis in severed, hemorrhaging organs. A need exists to use this technology in current and future Critical Systems for Trauma and Transport (CSTAT) systems to improve battlefield medicine to save lives. For this purpose, a robust and easy to use CSTAT-compatible hemostat ...

In Phase I, we propose to develop high saturation current photodiodes that will meet the following design criteria: (a) Responsivity > 0.7 A/W, (b) 1 dB compression current > 100 mA, (c) Bandwidth > 10 GHz, and (d) Wavelength response of 1300 to 1550 nm. Two different photodiode designs will be tested for maximum saturation current: Partially Depleted Absorber (PDA) and Charge Compensated Uni Tra ...

There is the need for new diagnostic instrumentation capable of detailed hypersonic flow field characterization with spatial resolution of order 1 mm3 and temporal bandwidth of order MHz. In this proposal Princeton Scientific Instruments, in collaboration with the Ohio State University Gas Dynamics and Turbulence Laboratory, offers a novel solution based on PSI's recently developed Ultra High Fra ...

Communications applications have utilized the intrinsic broadband characteristics of analog fiber optic links for myriad purposes. Today's transmitter technology of choice for these broadband applications is an InP-based electro-absorption modulator (EAM), because of its record levels of integration, size, efficiency, dynamic range and bandwidth. However, due to the lack of availability of adapt ...