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Metal-semiconductor (“Schottky”) junctions have defined the “gold standard” in sensitive, room-temperature “RF” (microwave, mm-wave, and THz) rectifiers going back over a century. As such they have already been widely pursued as elements in one- and two-dimensional arrays for “RF” imaging applications, both passive and active. However, they present a limit for the maximum RF curren ...

The goal of the proposed work is to enable real-time surveillance of airborne aerosols for the identification of chemical or biological species that represent potential hazards. This requires contact-free measurement of aerosol size and morphology using compact instrumentation that is low in weight and power requirements. This limits the use of highly sophisticated analytical techniques such as sc ...

The objective of SBIR topic CBD222-003 is to develop a chemical-biological (CB) protective kennel for Military Working Dogs (MWDs) that collapses into a backpack format that can be readily transported and deployed by a single person. The kennel should provide the same level of protection as the warfighter/handler personal protective equipment (PPE) with adequate space and filtered airflow to comfo ...

Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, and Nuclear (CBRN) protective items are typically comprised of an elastomeric element to impart barrier properties, while allowing a range of movement and flexibility to the person wearing the wearing them. The elastomers used in protective equipment often have fluoropolymer components or fluoropolymer-based coatings applied to enhance their barrier properties. F ...

The Joint Project Manager for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Medical is developing scopolamine hydrobromide trihydrate (Scop-HBT) under the Improved Nerve Agent Treatment System - Centrally Acting program. Scop-HBT is an anticholinergic medical countermeasure that temporarily blocks severe or life-threatening muscarinic effects caused by organophosphorus nerve agent (OPNA) poisoni ...

SRICO proposes state-of-the-art metamaterial based sensing technology to coherent hyperspectral imaging in the W-band portion of the MMW spectrum. The metamaterial absorber pixel design provides spectrally tailored and phase sensitive vector mode sensing capability critical for W-band imaging. The proposed imaging array features spectrally tailored and deeply sub-wavelength size metamaterial pixel ...

Many municipalities in the United States have begun to use impermeability measurements to incentivize storm water retention as part of the architectural and landscaping design process. These measurements are performed through analysis of high-resolution aerial photography and updated on an annual or semi-annual basis. The practice of using high resolution aerial or even satellite photography is pr ...

The recent COVID-19 world pandemic demonstrates most effectively the urgent need for near real-time detection of ambient airborne pathogens. It has been demonstrated that electrospray ionization, utilized in many mass spectrometers today, has the unique ability to capture bioaerosols non-destructively out of the air for subsequent interrogation. This proposal leverages on this electrospray capture ...

Expansion of aquaculture production depends crucially on the development of technologies that are able to perform functions important in a fish farming facility, without human input. For instance, early detection of a disease or parasite outbreak is critical in intensive aquaculture settings. Parasites, such as Sea Lice in Salmonid aquaculture are responsible for large losses. Existing options for ...

LIDAR is a powerful tool for the measurement and characterization of aerosols in the atmosphere. In battlefield environments, a wide variety of aerosol constituents and plume types are present. Traditional LIDAR analysis methods aim to characterize plumes in well controlled environments with a minimum of atmospheric clutter. To extend the abilities of plume characterization and identification in c ...