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This will facilitate the development of remedial approaches for existing facilities and assist in planning new facilities, logistics, and procedures to protect the environment without impairing critical mission functionality. The commercial application will include software distribution and updates.

This Small Business Technology Transfer Research program will develop narrow band plasmonic resonant cavity filters with integrated microbolometer sensors operating in the long wave infrared (LWIR) atmospheric transmission band for IR absorption measurements of low concentration chemicals. IR spectroscopy can identify a wide range of contaminants, including chemical/biological warfare agents, exp ...

Thermopile arrays manufactured using integrated process compatible materials and micro-machining will provide high performance with low manufacturing cost. Black Forest Engineering (BFE) teamed with Case Western Reserve University will design thermopiles using silicon based semiconductors and compare performance. Low cost thermopiles, differentially coupled with advanced BFE CMOS readout, will pr ...

Highly scalable parallel random number generators (RNGs) will be developed, evaluated and implemented for use in high performance computing on thousands of multi-core processors and general purpose graphics processing units. The main contributions are: (a) design and implementation of new parallel test methods that capture the inter-stream correlations exhibited in practice and complement the curr ...

We will develop novel acousto-optic devices for use in the UV using the new material Barium Borate (BBO) which not only has the required UV transparency, but a unique combination of acoustic and optical properties. The capabilities provided by these new UV AO devices are ideally suited for optical addressing arrays of trapped ions with focused spots from appropriately tuned UV and visible lasers t ...

This work seeks to demonstrate the wide spread applicability of Geometric Multi-Resolution Analysis (GMRA) to uncover low dimensional structure in large volume and high dimensional data sets. The objective is to show that the GMRA approach applies naturally to a variety of data types and to demonstrate its practical implementation in a scalable data intensive computing environment. The GMRA appr ...

Dose response relationships are fundamental to pharmacology and many other fields. Increasingly, scientists are encountering polytonic dose response relationships. These relationships are not well-characterized by linear and s-shaped models. Our team has extended the traditional 4 parameter logistic model by replacing the dose parameter with the quadratic function as an effective dose function. Th ...

The Defense Health Program seeks to improve the lives of service members suffering below knee amputations through the development of a non-powered lower extremity prosthesis designed to restore range of motion and power generation to that of an uninjured anatomical ankle. Current passive systems are still in early stages of development and typically only address one aspect of what the Defense Heal ...

Technology Assessment & Transfer, Inc. and collaborators propose the development of a frequency tunable, high dynamic range heterodyne terahertz imager (HTI) with wavelength scale spatial resolution operating at 30 frames per second. The proposed system will leverage the heterodyne imaging techniques already developed by one of the collaborators to achieve frequency tuning and high dynamic range i ...

Scanning microwave microscopy (SMM), capable of quantitatively measuring local electromagnetic properties at submicron length scales, has been widely used in semiconductor industry, materials science, physics, biology and other fields of science and technology. In particular, it offers the unique capability of penetrating into the sample-under-test in a non-invasive and non-contacting manner. Howe ...