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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this research program is to develop a communication device that facilitates face-to-face communication between deaf and hearing people. The sComm200A will be an easy-to-use, stand-alone, portable, real time communication device that enables two users to interact face-to-face by typing messages to one other in a format that permits simultaneous displ ...

75225S The elevated level of vibrations complicates the achievement of sub-nanometer stability for the final focusing lenses in supercolliders. This project will develop a radiation-hardened seismic (vibration) sensor, with sub-nanometer precision and fully immune to strong magnetic fields, for monitoring the stability of the final focusing lenses. In Phase I, two electrochemical prototype sens ...

Historically, the correlation between predicted failure and actual failure of composite aircraft structures has left much to be desired. Current analytical prediction methods often over estimate or under estimate the failure load by 25% or more. Compounding the problem is that the failure of composite structure has led to a lengthy and costly, test-based certification process. A relatively new ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will scale-up a new technology for producing high-surface area tantalum powders for the electronic capacitor industry. The existing technology is over 30 years old and cannot keep pace with the needs of smaller electronics, which require tantalum particles in the nanometer size range. In addition, environmental factors are driving t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective is a general methodology for using knowledge of one or more active ligands to select from among the vast realm of all synthetically accessible structures the most promising compounds for some particular therapeutic objective, to be used by medicinal chemists directly. A novel topomeric descriptor has been providing very rapid and effective ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Influenza virus causes a pandemic disease of the respiratory tract that results in significant human morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis of influenza virus infection during the winter months makes up a large component of the clinical virology workload. The goal of this application is to develop transgenic cell lines that facilitate the detection of influenza vi ...

High-efficiency UV detectors will be developed in the Phase II program with ZnO and its alloy (ZnBeO). ZnO and ZnBeO are a very suitable material for fabrication of high-speed, high-detectivity, and radiation-hard UV detectors due to their unique structural, electrical and optical properties. The proposing company (MOXtronics) has shown the feasibility of fabricating new ZnO p-i-n UV detectors in ...