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The Department of Energy requires a compact digital imaging system (or systems) for beam and target system diagnostic applications. Capable of HD resolution, motion deblurring, object/event detection/identification, object tracking, and data compression, the proposed system is meant to resolve current camera lifespan inadequacies while also boosting energy level resistance. This problem is being a ...

Advanced high temperature nuclear reactor systems that utilize liquid coolants such as molten fluorides require structural components that are also corrosion resistant to the coolant. The current structural components approved for use in ASME Code Sec III Div 5 have insufficient corrosion resistance for long lifetimes. This problem will be addressed by the incorporation of thick, corrosion resista ...

The problem being addressed in this application is the lack of materials and manufacturing techniques available to fabricate next- generation semiconducting electronic components in the United States. Specifically, this project advances diamond-based power components, which can bring greater efficiency, reliability, and resilience to the power grid. This project focuses on manufacturing methods an ...

Beam combining of many ultrafast lasers is a very promising route to achieving high peak power and high average power laser systems required for DOE acceleration applications. Fiber lasers have become key workhorses for power scaling of ultrafast laser sources due to their high single-pass gain, outstanding heat-dissipating capability, excellent beam quality, inherent simplicity, and compactness. ...

C56-36c-272696The Department of Energy’s Office of High Energy Physics promotes the development of state-of-the-art particle accelerators for cutting-edge experimentation. To support these advances, improved high- temperature superconducting (HTS) wires are required in order to build high-field magnets that generate magnetic fields greater than 18 T. One key material for the development of HTS w ...

CO2 sequestration projects, when deployed at scale, must move beyond prototype systems dependent of teams of specialist scientists and become supportable industrial processes. One portion of the of this industrial process is the monitoring of the subsurface conditions of the saline aquifers undergoing CO2 injection. Novel deployments utilizing borehole transmitters are a potential solution to inje ...

The current generation of low gain avalanche diodes (LGAD) suffers from large fractional dead area at the edges of the pixel, resulting in an important loss of fill factor if the pixel size is in the order of 100 micron. For example, the LGADs planned to be used in the timing detectors of both ATLAS and CMS have a pixel pitch of 1.3 mm. Furthermore, current generations of LGADs have only moderate ...

C56-06a-273584The use of DAS systems is a novel and affordable method to monitor large seismic events such as nuclear explosions, earthquakes, and other underground and underwater seismic activities. However, these target applications cause significantly larger volumes of data than conventional ‘small’ use cases (which gather up to several terabytes of data per day). Therefore, in order to be ...

Statement of the Problem: Decommissioned solar panels will account for up to 10 million tons of waste in the USA by 2050. PV recycling has seen little development in reclaiming valuable materials present in low concentrations. Copper and silver account for 1% and 0.1%, respectively, of the total waste mass, but represent 7% and 42% of the waste value. To make mass PV recycling economically viable, ...

n DER (Distributed Energy Resource) power delivery systems, the cybersecurity enhancement of OT (Operational Technology) is urgently needed to adapt/survive cyberattacks without disrupting safe operations. However, the modern energy systems with OT and IT systems are connected, allowing cyberattacks to originate in business systems and then migrate to DER energy control systems within the OT envir ...