Award Data

The goal of this SBIR project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative aluminum smelting technology that will significantly increase the range of aluminum alloys that can be manufactured from recycling of scrap aluminum. This will result in reduction of need for primary aluminum with corresponding 95% energy and CO2 emission benefits. The proposed melting of pre-sorted aluminum alloys using UHV ...

The goal of this SBIR project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative aluminum smelting technology that will significantly increase the range of aluminum alloys that can be manufactured from recycling of scrap aluminum. This will result in reduction of need for primary aluminum with corresponding 95% energy and CO2 emission benefits. The proposed melting of pre-sorted aluminum alloys using UHV ...

Magnetized and nonmagnetized beams are critical to achieve the luminosity goals of the next generation of electron-ion colliders. Maintaining magnetization and emittance of these beams from injection and transport through a long cooling solenoid is essential for this to work. For this Phase I, we will explore multiple concepts for the critical sections of arc transport and injector merger for high ...

Digital signal processing electronics are needed to replace analog signal processing, following low noise amplification and anti-aliasing filtering, in nuclear physics applications. Grant applications are sought to develop high speed digital processing electronics that, relative to current state of the art, improve the effective number of bits to 16 at sampling rates of 200 megasamples per second ...

The goal of this Phase I project is to improve current mini-rhizotron image-processing algorithms and solutions for analysis and production of rapid, automated assessments and quantification of in situ fine root measurement. The foundation for this effort is based on UHVs recent success in developing novel advanced machine learning algorithms which were designed to identify and segment fine roots ...

For many decades photomultiplier tubes PMTs) have been the main technology for sensitive and low noise detection of photons in many high energy physics experiments. However, compared to solid-state photodetectors, PMTs are bulky, fragile, and need to be shielded from high magnetic fields and high pressures, which severely limit their application for future DOE projects. Hence, there is a need for ...

The next generation of free electron lasers FELs) and the small-scale electrons accelerators designed to perform ultra-fast microscopy and diffraction experiment rely on the production of new electron guns with ultrahigh brightness cathodes. High-efficiency semiconductor e.g., GaN-based) photocathodes have been studied for this application, and there have been some advances in reducing the mean tr ...

Visualization remains an important tool to provide visual context to data with business increasingly requiring real-time access to the results through diverse platforms including mobile, desktop, and web. While modern web technologies have made this feasible, it is challenging to satisfy the interac- tivity and responsiveness expectations for large datasets. Consequently, a large potential applica ...

The scientific software community is facing major challenges in an era of disruptive changes in computing architectures, with ever increasing data types and sizes and complex computer designs and deployment configurations. Computing architectures are increasingly more powerful through multi-node architectures of HPC machines as well as multi-core and multi-way GPUs) processors available on individ ...

Increasing the efficiency and decreasing the cost of hydrogen production can have a great impact on industry and our economy. Converting solar energy directly into chemical fuels such as hydrogen could provide a promising technology not only to harvest the solar energy but also to store the solar energy. By combining a light harvester and a water splitting photocatalyst in a single photoelectroche ...