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The Materials Genome Initiative, in which DOE is participating through its Basic Energy Sciences program, aims to \support US institutions in the e ort to discover, manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast at a fraction of the cost". This can only be achieved by making signi cant improvements to the way that we use predictive capabilities to go from initial concept to manufactured ...

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 ...

Standards and specifications are widely used in government and industry to define requirements for products and processes and insure interoperability, safety, and quality of industrial and domestic products. Specifications and standards documents almost always cross-reference other standards and specification. Taken together, the web of interdependent standards forms an immensely important knowled ...

Problem statement A researcher dealing with big data today is met with a maze of languages, programming environments, data storage and query systems, and compute engines. Pursuing a new path in this space may take years and millions of dollars of investment, only to discover that a new and more applicable big data paradigm has emerged. Costs include learning programming languages, storage systems, ...

Problem Statement Real-time analysis and monitoring of networks is crucial for threat detection. Networks are ubiquitous in todays world and can appear in many formats and to name a few we have: communication networks, social networks, and power networks. In many instances it is important to know who the key players are in the network these can be people, computers, or relay stations. One of the ...

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 ...

Project Summary/Abstract: With many OLED lighting panel makers reporting reliability issues, the most common being sudden failure of a panel to emit light due to a short circuit between the anode and cathode, this project will develop new methods and technologies to elevate reliability from 1 failure in 1000 panels to 1 in 10,000, and beyond. OLED lighting is projected to grow to be a $5B industr ...

Abstract: One of the main roadblocks to higher efficiencies for warm-white LED light sources is spectrally-wide red-emitting bulk phosphors, which emit a significant amount of their energy either in the far red or infrared where the eyes response is poor or zero. Consequently, employing these phosphors (along with bulk green-yellow emitting ones) will result in desired warmer light sources, howev ...

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 ...

The DOE Office of Nuclear Physics (NP) seeks developments in detector instrumentation electronics. Grant applications are sought to develop circuits (including firmware) and systems, for rapidly processing data from particle detectors: gas detectors, scintillation counters, silicon drift chambers, silicon pixel and strip detectors, or silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs)). Our electronics will provide ...