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R3 Logic proposes to develop an openly accessible Design Environment that will incorporate CAD tools needed for the analysis and design of 3D integrated circuits, including schematic capture, VHDL interfaces, 3D physical layout, verification, 3D parasiticextraction, interactive coupled electro-thermal simulations, and thermally-aware place and route methods. We will achieve this goal, first by bui ...

Due to environmental control requirements, the sources of advanced separator materials for existing Ni-H2 batteries are going out of business. We are proposing to develop a cost-competitive, high-performance battery separator that can replace the currentNi-H2 separators without major cell design/assembly changes. We are planning to develop an environmentally benign battery separator and demonstrat ...

This project will design and deliver a high accuracy monitor for the photo-chemically coupled pollutants nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone using infrared absorption spectroscopy with quantum cascade (QC) lasers. The target molecules are monitored at air quality stations worldwide using instruments which require frequent calibration and are subject to significant chemical interferences (in t ...

This project will design and deliver a high accuracy monitor for the photo-chemically coupled pollutants nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone using infrared absorption spectroscopy with quantum cascade (QC) lasers. The target molecules are monitored at air quality stations worldwide using instruments which require frequent calibration and are subject to significant chemical interferences (in t ...

AFRL/VSSS is the lead Air Force group for providing the DoD community with physics-based predictive models critical to assessing the utility of optical spectro-polarimetric sensing (SPS) for aerospace reconnaissance and target cueing. AFRL/VSSS ispresently upgrading the government-standard MODTRAN atmospheric radiance code to properly handle polarization. However, there is currently no means of ...

Agiltron proposes a new concept for room temperature infrared imaging, which has the extraordinary potential of meeting the stringent requirement for monitoring the image projectors under intense EMI interference. This real-time monitoring system can beused to maintain the calibration of multi-spectral scene projectors in the long wave, medium wave and potentially short wave IR and UV spectrums. ...

Lasercomm offers attractive benefits of energy efficient, small size and weight, as well as resistant to detection and jam. However, lasercomm requires high accuracy pointing systems due to the much narrower beam divergence compared to conventional RFtechnology. Although mechanical beam steering mirrors provide the basic performance requirements, there is an increased need for high frequency be ...

Solid-state light sources promise many advantages over traditional technologies. Among these advantages is the ability to construct a source whose relative spectral distribution can be tuned to better match a desired spectrum. We propose addressing this technical and market opportunity through the development of a novel single-chip semiconductor device which delivers high optical output power (>20 ...

to High speed x-ray imaging is extremely important for several military and civilian applications such as analyzing ballistic impacts, imaging exploding land mines, medical computed tomography, and non-destructive testing. A lack of high-resolutiondetection systems with large active imaging areas and a microsecond time resolution is currently the major limiting factor in these important applicati ...

The use of thermal neutrons has been widespread over the past several decades in many investigations such as non-destructive testing (NDT), neutron radiography and macromolecular crystallography. For some applications such as crystallographic diffraction studies, neutrons are scattered over 4o in space and an ideal detector would be able to image the scattered radiation on a spherical surface. Cur ...