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50257-98-I Hollow Optical Waveguide Sensor for Environmental Monitoring--Arete Associates, 333 North Wilmot Road, Sutie 450, Tucson, AZ 85711-2631; (520) 571-8660 Dr. Gregory J. Fetzer, Principal Investigator Dr. John W. McLean, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-98ER82533 Amount: $74,950 A novel optical gas monitoring sensor will be developed that could significantly reduce the costs as ...

50957-98-I The Application of Plasma Assist Chemical Vapor Deposition (PACVD) Coatings for Die Casting Dies--Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER), 7960 South Kolb, Tucson, AZ 85706-9237; (520) 574-1980 Dr. S. Dimitrijevic, Principal Investigator Dr. J.C. Withers, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-98ER82614 Amount: $75,000 Casting dies are not only very expensive to produce in too ...

50011-98-I Hydra Cryogenic Refrigerator--MJS Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc., 731 W. Commerce Avenue, Gilbert, AZ 85233-4303; (602) 926-1125 Mr. Michael J. Scott, Principal Investigator Ms. Ursella Slusher, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-98ER82622 Amount: $75,000 Innovative designs for hermetically sealed closed cycle refrigerators capable of achieving cryogenic temperatures are requ ...

Current research shows that failures in the standardization process are often the result of a failure of the participants to communicate or organize. To this effect, NIST has developed a tool, NIST Ontological Visualization Interface for Standards (NOVIS), with an environment for visualizing, browsing, and querying standards. Aztera will create a Computer Aided Standards Development (CASD) framewo ...

An automated, real-time monitoring system for determination microbial activity in anaerobic environments (sediments/saturated soils and aquifers) would allow for improved characterization (fate and transport) of organic carbon in subsurface environments. General statement of how this problem is being addressed An automated field-deployable monitoring system using a microbial fuel cell as the analy ...

In the DOE SBIR topic 24h, Accelerator Control and Diagnostics, the Office of Nuclear Physics seeks grant applications for the development of triggerable, high speed optical and/or IR cameras, with associated MByte- scale digital frame grabbers for investigating time dependent phenomena in accelerator beams. Image capture equipment needs to operate in a high-radiation environment and have a frame ...

Battery storage systems are the backbone of the future gird systems. These systems provide distributed energy storage capabilities for smoothening the load profile and coping with generation and load power fluctuations. By incorporating these resources into the electrical grid, voltage stability and overall reliability of the grid will improve. Furthermore, these resources compensate for fluctuati ...

Improving the precision of timing and synchronization has wide impact on commercial and scientific fields. An innovative fiber laser technology based on a new glass and fiber material enables an unprecedented and cost-effective improvement in time stability and precision. Low phase noise and phase stabilized high repetition rate mode-locked laser systems make possible phase-coherent division of th ...

Long-term corrosion of steel in concrete structures is a particular concern for nuclear power plants as there is a compelling public interest in the safe operation of these plants for the many decades that they are in operation and the additional decades it takes for them to be decommissioned. Inspection techniques that are both non-destructive and which can detect long-term corrosion at its earli ...

To address the DoE need for a high-power laser source used for synchronous photoinjection of GaAs photoemission guns, AdValue Photonics proposes to develop a radio-frequency synchronized 100W mode-locked green laser source at a GHz rate. Previously-demonstrated GHz-rate modelocked solid-state/fiber lasers suffer from a reliability issue due to the use of fragile free-space bulk optics for their la ...