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Conventional shortwave infrared (SWIR), midwave infrared (MWIR), and long-wave (LWIR) III-V (e.g. gallium indium antimonide, or GaInSb) and II-VI (e.g. mercury cadmium telluride, or HgCdTe) epitaxial semiconductor materials show useful performance for various infrared photodetection applications, but their high-cost and substantial cooling requirements seriously limit the wide field deployment of ...

Energy is a critical enabling component of military operations and demand for it will continue to increase over the next few decades. Effective utilization of renewable energy could reduce demand for fuel for forward operating bases (FOBs), remote operating bases (ROBs), and expeditionary forces, and battlefields providing longer term energy solutions that support sustainment of technical superior ...

American Energy Technologies Company, a woman-owned small business concern out of Arlington Heights, Illinois will conduct the modeling, technology development and prototyping of the specialized carbon-based ram jet nozzle inserts aimed at maximizing the combustion performance of new-generation solid rocket fuels. The primary objective of the inserts will be to prevent condensation of oxide phase ...

The goal of this proposed Phase II effort is to design and demonstrate a monolithic architecture for two-dimensional, all-electronic beam steering of a high power, mid-infrared laser. A photonic integrated circuit architecture is described which contains a widely tunable, mid-infrared quantum cascade laser integrated with a phase-adjustable amplifier array and a high efficiency grating outcoupler. ...

Type II superlattices (T2SL) represent a promising material system capable of delivering very producible, large-format broadband MWIR and LWIR focal plane arrays (FPAs). High temperature operation of current MCT based FPAs is limited by inherent defects in the II-VI material and strong Auger recombination. T2SLs are based upon mature III-V materials and would provide high material quality, lower s ...

Robust instrumentation for advanced engine development in both the near and long term is required to maintain the air superiority of the United States Air Force.  This robust instrumentation must withstand the high-temperature and vibration environments present not only in existing high-speed propulsion systems but also future propulsion systems that will operate in hypersonic envelopes. Instrume ...

A Free Space Optical Communication Systems (FSOCS) enables broadband inter-connectivity among mobile platforms.  A key feature of an FSOCS is the low probability of intercept and the low probability of detection (LPI-LPD).  Furthermore, it is unhindered by RF jamming or frequency contention.   When augmented by a passive range detection capability, it also enables precise location knowledge, a ...

This project will establish the clear feasibility of bonded GaN-GaAs heterostructures to enable wide-bandgap heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with an unprecedented combination of high power, speed, and linearity at high frequencies (>10 GHz). Over the past decade, GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have matured in reliability and performance and set the standard in high- ...

The battlefield of the future and today, is based on data; and the ability to act upon this data. Data provides the foundation of everything from intelligence, situational awareness, and force readiness. Acquiring data in extreme environments requires analog and mixed signal electronics that don’t need thermal management. Integrated circuits (ICs) made with silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor te ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are advanced adsorbents with applicability to military and civilian applications including but not limited to chemical biological protection, chemical warfare agent decontamination, toxic industrial chemical remediation, medical oxygen delivery, and energy storage. These materials have been produced in ton-scale quantities and have seen commercial use in the electro ...