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Arete Associates and National Jewish Medical and Research Center propose to develop an instrument to measure the concentration of ethane in exhaled breath. The analyzer uses the combination of a proprietary hollow optical waveguide measurement cell, tunable semiconductor laser, and wavelength modulation spectroscopy to provide sensitive and reliable measurements of ethane. The sensor will exhibi ...

The overall goal of the proposed research is to develop a commercially-viable micro/nano-PIV instrument that can measure fluid motion in microchannels with 100 nanometer out-of-plane spatial resolution, 1 micron in-plane spatial resolution, and 1 microsecond temporal resolution. The instrument will also be capable of measuring bulk fluid motion in 100 nanometer channels.The 100 nanometer out-of-p ...

Toyon/UCSB proposes to research and design architectures for sensor networks to efficiently communicate to antenna array enabled collectors. Communication will take place in a coordinated fashion such that space-time coding can be employed. This technique can be exploited for a variety of purposes ranging from distribution of signal transmission, for even dispersion of communication load each sens ...

Toyon Research Corporation and the University of California at Santa Barbara propose to develop algorithms for the dynamic management of sensors onboard small, autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) to execute Cooperative Search, Acquisition, and Tracking (CSAT) of multiple moving ground targets. In our approach, UAV flight paths and sensor operations are dynamically selected in order to minimize ...

Zinc oxide is a versatile material, with a wide direct band gap (~3.3eV) with the potential for highly efficient light emitters and detectors, very high radiation hardness, and has high electromechanical coupling coefficients. In addition, transition metal doped ZnO has potential for sprintronics applications. This project will develop the mechanisms for realization of new spintronics devices ba ...

The Field Marshal Electromagnetic Simulation Environment (EM-SE) will provide a "virtual laboratory" for high-voltage radiation source research and design. The environment will be based on a modern scriptable programming language (Python) for usability and flexibility, finite difference techniques for extensibility and ease of maintenance, and multigrid techniques to enhance speed and power. Reduc ...

The Computational Virtual Laboratory for High Voltage Radiation Experiments (VLAB) will be a computer-based laboratory for carrying out experiments with high-voltage, high-current electron-driven sources of electromagnetic radiation. Applications for the VLAB include studies of fundamental physics in the high-voltage, high-current environment; high power microwave sources for directed energy weapo ...

This STTR Phase I project will focus on fabricating 3-D multi-scale macro/nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) integrated in carbon fiber preforms. The incorporation of nanoscale CNTs and conventional micro-scale carbon fibers into the polymer matrix will lead to a hierarchy of the reinforcement scales, ranging from a single fiber surrounded by a nanocomposite sheath to a bundle of fibers w ...

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in MHD and plasma augmentation of hypersonic flows, for applications in active flow control, power generation and flow acceleration. HyPerComp Inc. has been at the forefront of comprehensive physical modeling efforts pertaining to MHD flow simulations. Here, we propose a teaming arrangement with the University of Texas at Arlington, and the NASA ...

All-nitrogen compounds, also known as polynitrogen compounds, or nitrogen-rich compounds, such as polyazides, store large amounts of energy that can be released when these materials decompose to molecular nitrogen. The synthesis of these materials is very challenging because the reactants, intermediates, and desired products have high endothermicities. These high endothermicities make many of the ...