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Electrical systems are being designed with ever increasing power densities, particularly future radar and electronic warfare systems built with Gallium Nitride on Silicon Carbide Monolithic Integrated Circuits (GaN MMICs). Today’s GaN MMICs use solid metal, low-coefficient of thermal expansion heat spreaders (e.g., Copper-Tungsten). But solid-state heat spreaders cannot meet the size, weight, po ...

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) require robust, hermetic seals that can prevent both fuel leakage and direct mixing of fuel and air- The seal materials should be electrical insulators and should be chemically and mechanically stable in high temperature reactive environments (e-g-, moist reducing and/or oxidizing conditions)- The seals should exhibit no deleterious interfacial reactions with other c ...

By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in places with severe water scarcity and two-thirds of the global population will encounter some degree of water stress. If warming continues at the current pace, by 2030 half of the world’s population will experience severe water stress (Runte 2016). The demands are strong; the restraints, on the other hand, come from (1) high capital investment for eq ...

In the Phases I and II of this SBIR project, a software product was developed, delivered and deployed at the Hill AFB CT facility for highly resolving computed tomography of aerospace components.The project was focused upon speed of execution using high-performance computer architectures.In this commercialization readiness program, the technology will be advanced to at least TRL 6 by the following ...

This SBIR Phase I project is intended to develop a noninvasive, ultra-sensitive molecular detection system for Tuberculosis (TB). Although the prevalence of TB has diminished, it still remains the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease. The latest global TB report from the World Health Organization with data compiled from 205 countries put the figures at 1.5 million fatalities an ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is to enable real-time situational awareness in autonomous vehicles. With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050 and the uncertain climate changes that create concern over the resources allocated to farming activities, precision agriculture has become the ultimate solution to increase agricultural productivity and efficienc ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to develop technology to prevent seafood fraud through enabling wholesalers, restaurants, and consumers to rapidly identify mislabeled fish product outside of controlled laboratory settings. U.S. consumers are subjected to mislabeling errors one out of every three times they consume seafood. Specie ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is that the technology provides health care systems with a very accurate view of what their patients experience during health care encounters - what is going well and importantly, what specific problems are frustrating patients. With this insight, providers are able to quickly and efficiently ...

High-Spatial and Hyperspectral-Resolution Imaging for Bridge Inspection 3/12/2018 Four out of 10 national bridges have been in service for 50 or more years which have undergone different levels of structural deficiency; other relatively newer bridges are constantly exposed to natural and artificial hazards and are likely structurally deficient in their life cycles. This SBIR project aims to de ...

A System and Case Studies for Consolidating and Providing Access to Vehicle Safety-Oriented Datasets 3/20/2018 In today’s world, data is power. A person using social media can take a seemingly random survey about puppy adoption, the demographic and preference data can be fed to political marketers and that person’s empathy toward puppies can help elect the next President of the United State ...