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Over 300 HF RADARs worldwide are producing ocean surface data that is used in oil spill response, search & rescue, vessel traffic management, and research. In the U.S. there are 100+ systems supplying real-time data to the Coast Guard, NOAA IOOS, OR&R and other operational groups. To provide the highest quality data to stakeholders, systems should be calibrated by measuring the receive antenna p ...

Oscilla Power, Inc. (OPI) is developing a utility-scale wave energy harvester that is enabled by low cost and readily-available magnetostrictive alloys. T his device, which utilizes no moving parts, has the potential to deliver predictable quantities of electric power to coastal utilities, industrial users, and remote facilities at costs competitive with coal or gas. The Phase I project demonstra ...

The primary objective for the proposed effort is to develop innovative fast-running models (FRMs) that are based on data generated by High-Fidelity Physics-Based (HFPB) models; these FRMs are to predict the damage, responses, and subsequent residual strength of walls and slabs composed of UHPC or HPC materials of the kind that would be used in hardened bunkers. Of particular interest is to create ...

Tahoe RF will design, simulate, fabricate and test a low noise amplifier (LNA) and companion power amplifier (PA). The feasibility study for this design was completed during the Phase I activities. The design will be fabricated using a noise improved device models of a 0.25 m silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process.

During Phase I, IFOS demonstrated the feasibility of using embedded optical Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor networks to measure resistance to penetration (for subsequent weapons) in concrete damaged by a weapon projectile. FBG sensors are well suited for monitoring dynamic strain in concrete structures due to their small size, low cost, ability to be embedded internally or surface mounted; and th ...

The cost to maintain Moore’s law is growing exponentially with every generation of semiconductor device. To support the ever-increasing demand for smaller, faster, lower-power, and lower-cost microelectronic semiconductor devices, tools enabling faster and lower-cost research and development are required. Current development tools are only capable of achieving one data point per wafer. The goal ...

Throughout the history of integrated circuit fabrication, gate stack engineering has been employed to meet the aggressive device scaling necessary to stay on the Moore’s Law curve. However, as device dimensions continue to progress into the sub-100-nm regime, scaling of the traditional SiO2 gate dielectric led to issues with reliability, dopant penetration and excessive gate leakage current. Ove ...

For the next generation imaging equipment, CdZnTe/CdTe sensors are urgently needed unless a new semiconductor can be found. This Small Business Innovation Research project addresses the issues which prevent the wide applications of CdZnTe for roomtemperature radiation detection. The scientific approach of this project is to introduce an appropriate amount of deep-level defects or impurities to ...

The proposed effort will develop and demonstrate an imbedded protection technique for integrated electromagnetic protection of military systems and COTS equipment. The proposed imbedded protection technique will apply to all electromagnetic environmentsbut this research effort will focus on mitigating high altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) and high power microwave (HPM) effects. Under Phase ...

Mission Research Corporation (MRC) proposes to develop and demonstrate a unique solution to SEE (Single Event Effect) problems which result in data loss in deep submicron microcircuits in space radiation environments. As circuit fabrication feature sizesdecrease, SEE related upsets (which increase as the square of the inverse feature size) represent the radiation-induced hazard most difficult to ...