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With today's IRLED devices, >99.4% of input electrical power is converted into parasitic/waste heat. Moreover, as the local temperatures of the pixels increase due to the generated heat, IRLED optical efficiency is further reduced. Overall this severely limits the number and intensity of array pixels that can be simultaneously operated at high apparent temperatures. In Phase 2, we focus on develop ...

The team of Boston Fusion Corp., Arizona State University, and Sophia Speira proposes Phase II of Big Open-Source Social Science, BOSSS, a technology that will provide rapid social-science based awareness of the cultural landscape in a given locality. Based on the twin pillars of mathematical social science and big data, BOSSS searches open-source documents, parses the documents using natural lang ...

There is a lack of non-destructive metrology tool to measure the thickness of thin films on sapphire substrate due to the transparency of the

The team of Boston Fusion Corp., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Syracuse University proposes Phase II of UMIMMI: Universal Multivariate Information Measures for Multisensor Inference, a research program that studies multivariate information measures and uses these to construct optimal, universal algorithms and to lay a framework for general multivariate reasoning. We can then appl ...

Accurate assessment of burn depth and surface area are important to clinical decision-making regarding treatment. Initial assessment determines fluid requirements and transportation decisions to distant-care facilities. The clinician must determine if the wound will heal itself or whether excision and grafting are necessary for optimal wound healing. The standard of care remains visual inspection ...

Thin-film, lightweight, large-area flexible inorganic solar cells have shown promise to meet the militarys remote power needs on the battlefield. However, thin film solar cells normally have inferior conversion efficiencies due to limited absorption of sunlight by the thin active layer. Various approaches have been investigated to improve conversion efficiencies of thin film solar cells. Among the ...

Rodents serve as models for the human brain and behavior, and their calls give researchers a window into their mood. Unfortunately, rodent calls are ultrasonic, so a researcher must record a test and then play the audio back at a slower speed to manually categorize and count calls. Software does exist to accomplish this task, but it does not have the ease of use or accuracy that researchers want. ...

Mobile video sensors have become cheap and easy to integrate into cell-phones, UAVs, body cameras, and security cameras. The possibility of dense networks of video sensors enables a wide range of security-related uses for ONR and other government agencies including seaport monitoring, battlefield situational awareness, and forensic crime-scene analysis. The density and overlap of sensors creates t ...

Physical Sciences Inc. in cooperation with University of Notre Dame proposes to develop a method for the persistent surveillance and detection of aerosolized biological warfare agents using a distributed point bioaerosol detector network, local meteorological sensors, existing infrared surveillance cameras, and crowdsourced georeferenced network traffic and phrase monitoring. The proposed technolo ...

The Navy recognizes the potential for big data to facilitate readiness. Big data analytics present numerous challenges, (1) exacerbated primarily by the evolving nature of Navy tactics. (2) Further, the Navy is not one domain, but many interdependent platforms; each of which must be served by these analytics. (3) Finally, presenting these data effectively to facilitate action presents a third chal ...