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Earths outer radiation belt, which consists of electrons with hundreds of keV to MeV energies, is a highly dynamic and driven environment.The large variations in electron flux, if unaccounted for, can cause satellites that travel through this complex region to experience anomalous behavior ranging from temporary satellite outages due to electrostatic discharge events in system electronics to poten ...

Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) will collaborate to develop a Monte Carlo (MC) transport simulation package for devices based on III-V Type-II superlattice (T2SL) materials into a commercial offering suitable for device design and evaluation.UICs existing, research-grade, ensemble MC transport code is predictive of carrier transport in T2SL materials, ...

SIFT proposes Network Enforcement Using TRansactONs (NEUTRON) a dynamic fine-grained network enforcement policy design that captures network dependencies.NEUTRON closes the knowledge gap between mission needs and observed network traffic to increase mission network awareness. Then using that knowledge develops a revolutionary security enforcement policy based on network transactions.It reduces the ...

As threats emerge in geographically diverse locations, precision responses are often required immediately.However, the time-to-target for many munitions can be simply too long for short lived opportunities.To enable timely responses to long range threats, hypersonic munitions with velocities greater than Mach 5 are necessary.However, with hypersonic velocities comes a significant increase in the a ...

This phase 2 proposal builds upon Phase 1 successes, with plans for the construction of an electrochemical variable emissivity device (EC VED). The viability of this EC VED will be determined by the development of a new family of ionic liquid (IL) electrolytes featuring polyhedral boron cages as the anionic component. In these new electrolytes, the negligible vapor pressures and high ionic conduct ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are adsorbents that show promise in toxic chemical remediation, medical oxygen storage, high-value gas recovery, and multiple other military and civilian applications. However, a lack of quality-controlled supply limits these materials to laboratory environments. This work will borrow from industrial Quality practices to ensure supplied material conforms to specific ...

Natural fiber welding (NFW) is a disruptive bioengineering platform that has broad applications to manufacturing high performance materials and composites from abundant natural materials. By careful control of NFW process conditions, native order and structure of biopolymers is retained thus creating strong composites without glue while preserving the impressive native physical characteristics of ...

ABSTRACT: MicroLink and its collaborators, Rochester Institute of Technology and Magnolia Solar, will develop a high-efficiency, single-junction, epitaxial lift-off (ELO) GaAs solar cell by incorporating nano-scale features, such as quantum dots and optically functional textures, within the solar cell structure. The principal technical objective of the project is to increase the AM0 efficiency o ...

ABSTRACT: CU Aerospace (CUA) and team partner the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) propose to perform research, development and demonstration of experimental quenching free measurements of heat-release in a realistic highly turbulent plasma-assisted flame. Kinetics models will be correspondingly updated and detailed 3D multiphysics simulations will be validated by the measuremen ...

We propose a rapid mapping and 3-D visualization system especially suited for inside buildings, tunnels, urban canyons, and other environments where GPS may be poor or not available. The system--which was fully demonstrated in our Phase I effort-- includes mobile Sensor Nodes that wirelessly supply compressed 3D range data and color imagery to a central Fusion Node. The Fusion Node runs 3D recon ...