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Interference of unburned and activated carbon in fly ash with air-entraining admixtures (AEA’s) in fresh concrete mixtures is a major concern in the concrete industry. Therefore, a rapid and accurate measurement of adsorption capacity of fly ash is of great interest to this industry. In this project, a new method is suggested, which can qualitatively and quantitatively measure different surfact ...

Transportation Tech is the development and implementation of an online, on‐demand educational curricula for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Connected Vehicle (CV) technology. Transportation Tech content is designed and developed to encourage students to choose careers in ITS as well as train current ITS and CV technicians in the field. Through customized portals, at the end of the P ...

LI-COR proposes to continue development of a next-generation CO2/CH4/H2O analyzer that will offer an unprecedented combination of high precision and stability, making it the first highperformance gas analyzer suitable for long-term unattended operation. The instrument will be smaller, lighter, and far less expensive than competing technologies. LI-COR’s approach exploits a proprietary, revolutio ...

Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM), Inc., founded by Dr. W. Alan Doolittle, proposes to develop a new generation of bulk synthesis tools operating at significantly higher pressure than current prototype systems which already demonstrate tantalizing material quality and high growth rates with proven alloy and dopant control capability to produce AlGaN substrates with remarkably low cost and high q ...

Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM), Inc., founded by MBE expert Dr. W. Alan Doolittle, has developed a new generation of MBE tools with revolutionary capability and remarkably lower cost than legacy tools and proposes to construct a prototype tool to demonstrate its power. The prototype tool will be delivered to AFRL for use in the growth of Gallium Oxide shattering current technical roadblocks c ...

An existing 128x128 pixel CMOS image sensor will be backthinned and anti-reflection coated with the goal of achieving a quantum efficiency of >80% at 570 nm without microlenses. Each die will be window-backthinned instead of fully backthinned and hybridiz

Argos Intelligence proposes to develop BLINDER to significantly enhance Low Earth Orbit (LEO) imagery that is distorted by atmospheric turbulence. The proposed system will utilize state of the art turbulence mitigation through multiple frame blind deconv

Vlabs will define an architecture for a big data cybersecurity solution that will provide a real-time, intuitive and actionable analytics for enhanced situational awareness and rapid response. The system will facilitate automation of key security decisions with a goal to accelerate the attack detection time of highly resourceful adversaries. The system will ingest and analyze various data types an ...

A full-featured ADS-B unit for unmanned air vehicles is proposed. In addition to the ADS-B In/Out capability, several features which are customized for UAV operations are included. In Phase I, development of the features will be undertaken, along with pre

RF signal collection and wireless communications across many different frequency regimes require conformal antennas operating over extremely broad frequency ranges (~2 MHz to ~3 GHz). Traditional electronic circuits and radiating elements face significant