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The far-term goal of this research is in development and design of accelerator able to provide & gt;1 GeV/m for electrons. This goal will be reached by usage of Si micro-structure made with Lithographic technology common in micro-circuit fabrication. To avoid heat damage of micro-structure, the laser focus swept along the accelerator micro- structure by a special electro-optical devic ...

Synchrotron-based science has had a great scientific impact and will continue to have great impact going forward. In spite of the large investment in the 3rd generation light sources, most beam lines do not preserve the sources phase profile or brightness all the way to the sample. For these high brightness light sources, errors are almost completely due to distortion in the front-end optics cau ...

With rising energy costs and finite supply, Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) are becoming increasingly important in the United States, particularly in regard to buildings, which account for 40% of the total energy used in America. Currently, energy use in buildings can be assessed through energy-modeling software during the design process or during post-occupancy once the building is commissio ...

Detectors and radiation monitors for future high energy and nuclear physics experiments must be able to withstand radiation environments several orders of magnitude harsher than those of any current device. At present, most radiation detectors are based on silicon technology, however, the practical radiation hardness limit of silicon falls far short of requirements in future high ener ...

At present there exists a very significant science and technology gap for the production of photocathodes that have both high quantum efficiency (QE) and long lifetime. The National Academies has identified this as an area of critical importance to the development of high-power free-electron lasers (FEL). If the high-current electron injectors required are based on low-QE cathodes, then the requ ...

The core objective will be to demonstrate the feasibility of creating an affordable, long-lasting clean cook stove solution that delivers at least 90% emissions reduction and 50% lower fuel usage than traditional biomass stoves. Over the period 2009-2011, BioLite developed an innovative, low cost technology that uses a thermoelectric generator in combination with a fan and a unique combustion syst ...

It is becoming abundantly clear that the scientific world is being saturated by its own data, with raw data collection increasingly outpacing researchers ability to extract meaningful knowledge from it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the proliferation of omics fields, which are generating staggering amounts of data. This proposal offers three distinct improvements for the Kbase community by ...

The integration of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) into the product design and manufacturing process has shown to be a major benefit in terms of reducing both time and cost as well as increasing reliability. However, based on current practices the full potential of these concepts have yet to be achieved due to two major obstacles. The first is that the cost of comm ...

This proposed technology concerns a high performance, low cost, and high value renewable bioasphalt polymer technology for roofing and other infrastructure construction applications. The bioasphalt is made from coal-fired power plant byproducts flue gas CO2 and fly ash and recycled agricultural byproducts waste cooking oils, animal fats, or trap grease. In the presence of flue gas containing CO ...

Data acquisition in Nuclear Physics, and in particular for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), requires unprecedented flexibility in collecting data from detectors served by modern sampling analog- to-digital converters (ADC). Work is needed to develop architecture which will synchronize time to a precision as good as 10 ns to support ADC clock synchronization, trigger formation, and event ...