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Our goal is to develop a first-of-its-kind, commercial, model-based design tool to enable digital engineering of solar cells and modules. We will leverage and adapt Plato1 – an open-source2 software developed at Sandia National Laboratories to support multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization in high performance computing environments – to accelerate software development proposed he ...

C55-10b-270389Recent developments in electron microscopes, especially improved optics and new detectors have led to new types of experiments in the fields of physics, quantum information, and biology. With all the recent progress, one key system of the microscope, the scanning system, has fallen behind. The proposed development will introduce a fundamentally new type of scanning system that replac ...

Wellbores that intersect CO2 storage formations represent a potential leakage pathway that can lead to subsurface migration of stored CO2 and/or subsequent venting of stored CO2 to the surface; consequently, repair and remediation of these wellbore is critical for ensuring the permanent storage of CO2 in geologic formations. Repair and remediation operations are particularly challenging for these ...

C55-05a-270698Computational methods and tools applied to mine data are critical for the economic growth and security of our nation. Advanced machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are applied to automate the mining of zettabytes of internet data. However, the mining of the much more limited, highly heterogeneous, multimodal, disparate, uncertain, non-uniform, and unstruc ...

Biological imaging with molecular specificity is most often achieved using fluorescent labeling. Fluorescent light for image contrast is also the basis of most optical “super-resolution” techniques that achieve far-field spatial resolution beyond the classical limit. However, non-invasive imaging techniques have been developed that use only native fluorophores, or bypass fluorescence in favor ...

Statement of the problem or situation that is being addressed: Critical to the development of biofuels is understanding the chemical and physical environments within individual plant cell or organelles as well as cellular interactions with its environment. The ability to track the chemical exchanges between plant cells and microbial communities in environmental settings could improve the efficienc ...

C53-12a-271285Current electron accelerator technologies are fundamentally limited by the photoinjector, where efficient generation of electron bunches with low emittance is required. Many facilities currently use photocathode materials with excitation by high power ultraviolet pulses, which places extreme demands on system components. Therefore, photocathode materials operating in the visible spec ...

C53-13a-271299A recent development in electron microscopes improved energy resolution ten times, enabling a new field of science: the study of atomic vibrations at the nanometer scale, down to single atoms. The proposed development will improve the energy resolution 3x further, extending the field to new areas including quantum information technology. A new type of electron monochromator, used tog ...

C47-24c-271412This proposal addresses the challenge of non-invasively, economically, and accurately detect and imaging groundwater and hydrogeological properties in the top 30m of the subsurface. We will apply imaging methodologies at the core of medical MRI to efficiently map shallow groundwater and hydrogeologic properties at improved resolution. Conventional surface NMR has been proven as a pow ...

Real-time monitoring of traffic conditions is crucial for improving traffic safety and efficiency, and there is an urgent need for the development of in situ traffic sensing & computing technologies leveraging the recent advancements in edge computing. This project will develop an edge computing and sensor fusion system for comprehensive traffic and road conditions data collection and efficient tr ...