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This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop a novel method for chemical analysis using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy at moderate and low magnetic field strengths. A major cost and physical limitation of NMR spectroscopy is the high-field magnet typically required. Although high-field instruments face competition from smaller benchtop-sized instrument ...

Performing accurate simulations of large- and multi-scale electromagnetics problems has far-reaching implications in a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines. The same physics governs a diversity of applications including problems of importance for NAVAIR such as complex radome-antenna and antenna-platform interactions.  Such simulation problems involve complex materials, multiple feed ...

The objective is to develop and package a compact integrated optical transmitter operating at a wavelength near 1 micrometer for balanced radio-frequency (RF) photonic link applications on air platforms. The transmitter must have performance requirements that support high-performance balanced RF link specifications such as RF noise figures below 25 dB (no RF or optical amplification) when connecte ...

The broader impact /commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce errors and improve accuracy, standardization, agreement, and reporting in evaluation of COVID-19 lung disease severity on chest computed tomography (CT) images. Chest CT procedures play a critical role in COVID-19 patients but current meth ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapidly evolving technology that is being used in a growing number of new and different applications. As applications become more diverse, so will the environments within which AM equipment is relied upon to operate effectively and produce high quality parts. One specific challenge is maintaining part quality when AM equipment is required to operate in environments ...

SRICO proposes to develop a compact, high-performance, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and high-power microwave (HPM) resilient radio frequency photonic link for compact antenna remoting in US Navy submarine electronic warfare applications. EMI and HPM resilience are achieved by optically isolating the pick-up radio frequency (RF) antenna and optical transmitter from the photoreceiver. The opti ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will be a technology enabling 3D printing of high-performance materials. A rapid and versatile ability to fabricate 3D parts that are lightweight, heat-resistant, biocompatible, and chemically inactive would yield improved manufacturing capabilities across a range of potential commercial appli ...

Improved propeller designs for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems are needed to improve performance and reduce acoustic emissions. Traditional propeller design methods don’t take advantage of advances in coupled fluid, structure and acoustics computational design methods nor advances in high strength, high modulus materials to extend performance of propellers and reduce noise emissions. In the propos ...

The Kairos Research Team, together with our partners at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), proposes to develop an intuitive web-based Twitter Follower / Friend Assessment (TWIFFA) tool and associated app that can identify bots and bot-assisted accounts within a user’s network of followers and friends. TWIFFA will enable a user to input their Twitter credentials, scan followers and ...

Hydrometeors consisting of liquid water droplets or solid particles of ice can disrupt the boundary layer near hypersonic vehicles, and ultimately impinge on the surface causing surface roughness and further altering the flowfield. To advance the knowledge of hydrometeors and their impact on hypersonic flight, it is critical, therefore, to develop practical, high-fidelity and spatio-temporally res ...