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To achieve a quantum step in data center efficiency, new thermal management technologies must be coupled to the devices they cool. This proposal seeks to build on recent observations that microconvective cooling not only functions as a high-performance chip cooling technique with the potential for a low PUE, but is also capable of increasing the intrinsic efficiency of the silicon processors them ...

To achieve a quantum step in data center efficiency, new thermal management technologies must be coupled to the devices they cool. This proposal seeks to build on recent observations that microconvective cooling not only functions as a high-performance chip cooling technique with the potential for a low PUE, but is also capable of increasing the intrinsic efficiency of the silicon processors them ...

This proposal seeks the development of analog AI training processors with more than 240× performance to push the boundaries of AI without spending billions of dollars to train each new advanced model, or worse, burning down the entire planet. The building blocks of these architectures will be the novel class of nanoprotonic devices with ideal characteristics we will develop here, such that the re ...

This proposal seeks the development of analog AI training processors with more than 240× performance to push the boundaries of AI without spending billions of dollars to train each new advanced model, or worse, burning down the entire planet. The building blocks of these architectures will be the novel class of nanoprotonic devices with ideal characteristics we will develop here, such that the re ...

Foundation Alloy integrates material design and part production by developing a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for powder metallurgy-based processing through 3D printing and sintering. Foundation Alloy is developing a design platform for new alloys that combine unprecedented performance with a unique suitability to today’s advanced manufacturing techniques. Foundation ...

Foundation Alloy integrates material design and part production by developing a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for powder metallurgy-based processing through 3D printing and sintering. Foundation Alloy is developing a design platform for new alloys that combine unprecedented performance with a unique suitability to today’s advanced manufacturing techniques. Foundation ...

Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) will develop an Ultra High Apparent Temperature Large Format Infrared Scene Projector (UHAT-LF-IRSP) employing digital micromirror device (DMD) technology with structured quantum cascade laser (QCL) illumination, addressing requirements for next generation scene projector capabilities to keep pace with evolving threats and associated threat detection sensors. Of prima ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will leverage its extensive experience in infrared scene projector (IRSP) design and harsh environmental operability to create a hybrid, foveated, radiation hardened IRSP (RH-IRSP). This design allows long-life, low-maintenance, modular and field-upgradable operation of conventional optical components inside a pressure, thermal and radiation environment similar to that ...

This proposal seeks to demonstrate an innovative process for growth of CdZnTe crystal boules with properties that meet the stringent requirements of CdZnTe substrates for LWIR mercury cadmium telluride detectors, leveraging significant expertise of the proposing team in crystal growth of CdZnTe. The grown crystals will be fabricated into substrates which will undergo extensive in-house and end-use ...

Current fabrication processes for ceramic conformal window optics are high-cost and fairly inefficient. Surmet is a vertically integrated manufacturer of durable visible-MWIR ALON® and Spinel precision optics. Through this program, we will develop and demonstrate innovative technology conformal window for fabrication; showing a major improvement in time, cost, and quality. Surmet has already prov ...