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"To enable the future needs of efficient computing for edge data centers, Flexnode and its partners, the University of Maryland (UMD), Boeing, Iceotope, SHoP Architects, and Arup, propose to develop a prefabricated modular micro data center with unprecedented energy efficiency and power density. The proposed system leverages four key component and system-level technology advancements: (a) a novel, ...

"To enable the future needs of efficient computing for edge data centers, Flexnode and its partners, the University of Maryland (UMD), Boeing, Iceotope, SHoP Architects, and Arup, propose to develop a prefabricated modular micro data center with unprecedented energy efficiency and power density. The proposed system leverages four key component and system-level technology advancements: (a) a novel, ...

C53-14b-271071The increasing data rates in conventional and scanning transmission electron microscopy, afforded by the developments of faster detectors and novel in-situ methods, requires automation of post- acquisition data analysis and, ideally, identification of regions of interest during experimental data acquisition. The overarching objective of this program is to leverage a suite of cutting- ...

C53-17b-271089Neutron scattering experiments hold the keys for unraveling the fundamental properties and dynamics of novel organic and inorganic materials that are yet to be discovered. To support these experiments, the DOE currently supports numerous neutron facilities in the US. Needless to state, the future experiments will demand a much higher neutron radiation flux than what is currently avai ...

C53-28a-271090Biological systems function across scales, with operations at nanoscales coming together to form complex macroscale communities. Thus, resolving interactions and tracking metabolic processes within living systems requires multi-scale imaging to visualize cells at the community, cellular, subcellular, and single-molecule scales. Although techniques like light sheet fluorescence micros ...

C53-16a-271092Direct X-ray detectors can provide the best possible spatial and energy resolutions required for next generation X-ray detectors with applications in multiple fields, including medical imaging, materials science experiments, and security screening. However, the only commercial large area (>10cm x 10cm) direct detector technology based on amorphous selenium has several inherent limita ...

C53-33b-271095Recently developed precision timing detector technology based on silicon Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) although exhibiting excellent timing performance, cannot attain 10µm position resolution needed for advanced 4D detectors. New small-pitch detector solutions are being developed which necessitates development of complimentary Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and r ...

C49-18b-271098Novel neutron detectors with =300 µm spatial resolution and gamma rejection = 10-6 are needed to enable efficient measurement of small single crystals for diffraction and diffuse scattering measurements, which are essential for advancing a variety of scientific research from biomedical drug discovery, materials innovation to clean energy technology. Currently used GS20 scintillator ...

C53-28b-271112Quantum enabled approaches pose new concepts for bioimaging and sensing of biological processes in living biological systems, non-destructively in real time. Processes of interest for bioenergy include measuring enzyme function within cells, tracking metabolic pathways in vivo, monitoring the transport of materials into and out of cells or across cellular membranes and, measuring sig ...

C53-26a-271115The extent, persistence and microphysical properties of clouds influence Earth’s climate and hydrologic cycles. A critical factor affecting cloud characteristics is the concentration of airborne particles around which cloud droplets form. A significant contributor to these particles is atmospheric nucleation, which injects large numbers of small particles into the atmosphere. Once ...