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The benefits provided by Belle Aerospace Corporation’s (BAC’s) proposed technology will reduce engine size, weight, acoustic signature, increase reliability and power output, while providing substantial fuel efficiency increases using load following engine control technology and other BAC proprietary innovations. These optimized improvements will provide great reductions in both; the initial l ...

Many DOD systems require high-performance digital signal processing and image processing functions that cannot be implemented efficiently on conventional microprocessors. Systems engineers often address these issues by mapping the compute-intensive portions of these applications onto FPGAs in the form of hardware accelerators, as part of a hardware-software co-design. However, a manual hardware im ...

The research objectives of Aiding Complex Decision-Making Through Augmented Reality (SBIR Phase 1) address real world issues found in complex, high-stress, mobile environments that require rich information in order to reduce error and make informed decisions. Such systems are made up of several interacting components requiring collaborative situational awareness in a dynamic environment. Complexit ...

The primary objective of CU Aerospace’s Phase I work will be to assess the feasibility of producing very narrow linewidth (< 1 MHz), single-mode, diode lasers for pumping alkali atoms. This effort will involve novel laser-amplifier diode architecture to enable such high performance devices. These advances will have a major impact on alkali laser based sensor systems as well as rapidly evolving ...

This SBIR proposal is directed toward developing inexpensive, lightweight MWIR and LWIR imagers and cameras which have high performance, excellent pixel unifirmity, and low power consumption. The proposed technology could operate at ambient temperatures and provide simultaneous co-registered MWIR and LWIR images.

This SBIR project is directed to the preparation of very strong, dense (> 7g/cc reactive structural energetic materials which have long term storage stability and high energy/combustion output.

This SBIR Phase I project, under topic SB082-052, is directed toward design, epitaxial growth , fabrication and characterization of InGaN solar cells. InGaN thin films grown by solid source molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) will be used to fabricate photonic crystal based high efficiency solar cells. Much more efficient solar cells are possible as a result of photonic crystals that more efficiently ca ...

The significance of the innovation in this Phase II SBIR is the development of a low cost, lightweight epitaxial lift-off (ELO) process for large improvements in the power/weight ratio in solar cell devices. This effort will advance solar cell development by decreasing the weight while maintaining the efficiency performance of the solar cell. The innovation of this work is based upon the complet ...

The objective of the proposed project is to demonstrate the feasibility and potential for the realization of III-Nitride based intersubband quantum cascade lasers operating at near room temperature. III-Nitrides have a large band gap and band offset that make then well suited to the realization of short wavelength (1.55 mm) telecommunications lasers. However, in addition to the large band offset ...

Quantitative and visually intuitive information is critical to understanding, designing, and verifying the operation of any system. For instance, a vector signal analyzer allows a designer to gain an immediate understanding of a radio communications link by visualizing the transmission signal constellation. Additional analysis such as a calculation of the error vector magnitude can be performed in ...