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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a new class of in-fiber chiral polarizers based upon chiral fiber gratings. A double helix variation of the effective refractive index will be formed by twisting fibers with a noncircular core as they pass through a miniature oven. These chiral fiber polarizers will be created from specially prepared glass performs in a l ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will further develop a prototype high pressure/high temperature apparatus, which will be capable of generating pressures of 10-30 GPa at 2000-5000C in mm3 volumes. Having realized this objective, samples of high quality single crystal and polycrystalline diamond by controlled crystallization from a high purity carbon melt will be prepa ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROCESS TO AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFY THE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE OF SOMATIC EMBRYOS AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF AN ONGOING BIOREACTOR PLANT PROPAGATION TECHNOLOGY BEING DEVELOPED AT DNA PLANT TECHNOLOGY. THE BIOREACTOR TECHNOLOGY INVOLVES THE SCALE UP OF SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF SELECT PLANTS ON A COMMERCIAL SCALE. AN IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM COUPLED ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop an efficient and flexible device to produce a neutral, linearly-extended, free radical flux for photovoltaic and semiconductor industry applications. This source can produce atomic chalcogen species (sulfur, selenium, tellurium) and other types of free radicals (such as atomic oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen or chlorine) for formation ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to develop software for interactive teaching of reading, based on letter-to-phoneme rules developed for an entirely different technology, namely computer text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). Awareness of letter-phoneme correspondences is important for learning to read English. However, no tools are available that identify and apply all t ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a novel solid acid catalyst for paraffin alkylation in an effort to provide refiners with a cost-effective alternative for producing clean fuels without the need for corrosive liquid acids. A new family of multifunctional catalysts is being developed, that significantly reduce catalyst deactivation rates. This is achiev ...

RESEARCH ON BIOMEDICAL PCO2 SENSORS BASES ON ADVANCED FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY ARE HEREIN PROPOSED IN ANSWER TO THE NEED FOR A MINIATURE SIZE SENSOR FOR IN-VIVO APPLICATIONS AS WELLAS A RAPID RESPONSE TIME FOR REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS. RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A READY TO USE PCO2 ANALYSIS SYSTEM WHICH PERFORMS REAL TIME, IN-VIVO, CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF PCO2 IN PHYSIOLOGICAL CONCENTR ...

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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II research project addresses the device and market opportunity for thick magnetooptic garnet Faraday rotator films with planar anisotropy to be operated in the near infrared. Magnetic and electromagnetic field sensors could be developed at a variety of near-infrared wavelengths including the 800 nm, 1310 nm and 1550 nm bands. These sensors can ...