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The additive manufacture of metal components from powder feedstocki.e. the net-shape, three-dimensional forming of a component, layer by layer, from a computer filehas gained popularity in the last nearly three decades, evolving from a method of rapid prototyping to rapid manufacturing. These methods are inherently far-from-equilibrium and present a significant, economical method to fabricate bulk ...

This proposal aims at developing a material agnostic modeling and analysis capability to help understand the genesis of voids and wrinkles during the processing and curing of fibrous composites. It also develops a hierarchical framework to investigate the effects of these micromechanics defects on the interlaminar strength and fatigue life of curved composite structures. The overall effort is cate ...

We will develop chip-scale components at 780/795 nm, for a superluminal ring laser gyroscope and accelerometer (SRLGA) using Rubidium.The components include high-power and narrow-band lasers, modulators, detectors, low-loss waveguides, and micro-resonator based magneto-optic isolators, integrated on a single chip. The components will be built on GaAs substrate.GaAsP Quantum Wells (QWs) will enable ...

In this Phase I SBIR, Microlink Devices in collaboration with Prof. Jeehwan Kim of MIT will develop a low cost, flexible, radiation hard dual junction InGaP/GaAs solar cell using graphene assisted epitaxy for space application.The innovation in this Phase I SBIR is the development of low cost, light weight, flexible epitaxial lift-off (ELO) InGaP/GaAs dual junction (DJ) solar cells with improved b ...

This Phase II project will extend the investigation of Phase I effort to further enhance and mature a sealant technology to limit or prevent environmental degradation of aircraft exhaust coatings that provide thermal and corrosion protection to the underlying substrate. The environmental degradation problem is a severe and urgent problem faced by DoD across many advanced aircraft platforms resulti ...

This Phase II SBIR project will investigate the design and build of a nanoscale sealant deposition system applicable to a broad range of substrate materials of interest to USAF, DoD, and other commercial customers.The sealant is a high temperature sta...

The innovation in this Phase I SBIR is the development of wavelength specific photonic structures (WSPS) technology that will improve the efficiency and radiation hardness of multijunction solar cells suitable for deployment in space applications. The key

This Phase I SBIR project will investigate an innovative sealant material suitable for application to high temperature aircraft engine exhaust components to improve their durability in moisture-laden environments. Exhaust coatings utilized in advanced air

MicroLink Devicesproposes to develop an ultra-high efficiency, radiation-hard, six-junction solar cell for application to Air Force space missions. The proposed technology will comprise lattice-matched subcells grown on InP and GaAs substrates that are mechanically attached in a monolithic structure to achieve 1-sun AM0 efficiency in excess of 40%. To render the solar cell cost-efficient, epitaxia ...

The result of this project will be the integration of the advanced, high-fidelity physics-based hydrocode, EPIC, into the DoDs Modular Effectiveness Vulnerability Assessment (MEVA) code. This will be accomplished by integrating a flexible, open-source, application integration infrastructure called IMPACT, developed and supported by Illinois Rocstar, into Endgame Framework.To address the need for h ...