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The harsh environment posed by hypersonic flight makes antenna design challenging due to extreme temperature exposure coupled with often competing mechanical/aero and RF performance requirements. FIRST RF proposes an advancement to its numerous conformal antenna technologies utilizing additive manufacturing of dielectric materials. This approach will decouple the competing RF and mechanical requir ...

Estes Energetics and Battelle Memorial Institute will apply a fast, affordable manufacturing technology—proven to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 4—that manufactures a layer of carbon-carbon directly on composite structures without requiring use of an autoclave or densification process holds, resulting in reduced manufacturing time while improving com ...

The innovation proposed here is a novel carbon-carbon composite (CCC) manufacturing method based on polymer infusion and polymerization (PIP) using a novel precursor polymer with exceptionally high char yields. This results in a material that has the promise of excellent quality and mechanical properties, while offering the breakthrough advantages of (1) greatly reduced or eliminated need for back ...

Food irradiation technology has attracted more attention in the past decade given that it can provide a sustainable solution on how to address pathogen contamination in food. X-ray irradiation has several advantages compared to other irradiation technologies including superior penetrating quality compared to electron beams, and considerably larger dose rate compared to gamma rays. However, the low ...

Attollo proposes to develop a GeSn / Si photodiode and tune the epitaxial layers for eSWIR sensitivity in partnership with Prof. Jack Ma (U. Wisc.) and Dr. Amy Liu (IQE) to realize 2.Xµm eSWIR detectors that can be monolithically integrated with Silicon CMOS wafers, and ultimately incorporated into low SWaP-C cameras

The IS4S/Auburn approach will be centered about a Continuous Output Microwave Energy Transformer (COMET) leveraging new GaN on SiC components from leading multi-million dollar research facilities and manufacturers with the purpose of developing novel Solar Power Satellite RF-DC solutions. This approach will navigate the entire DC-RF process from DC input to antenna port while running at a minimum ...

In response to the DoD STTR 2022.D Solicitation for the Air Force Phase I Program, topic SF22D-T001, Advanced Space, LLC, and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) propose to design and develop hard and soft data techniques to characterize and identify R

As the number and capabilities of known and unknown space systems are expanding, the United States Space Force (USSF) needs to enhance and modernize space domain awareness (SDA). However, there are significant challenges to identify, track, and characteri

Icarus Quantum Inc., Quantum Nanophotonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Kwiat Quantum Information Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), propose to develop an on-demand entangled-photon

We propose to develop a low SWaP, robust, turnkey entangled-photon pair source emitting at 780 nm based on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design that combines a tunable continuous-wave PIC (pump) laser that is heterogeneously integrated with a non-li