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The U.S. Navy currently utilizes a number of towed systems from surface ship and submarines for sensing and communication applications. In a number of these cases, a tow cable extends either down from a surface ship or up from a submarine through the upper part of the water column where seawater temperature can be both highly variable vs. depth and dynamic in time and geographic location. Having a ...

Oceanit proposes to develop and demonstrate novel, tailored, designer separator materials with optimized properties to maximize lithium-ion cell/battery performance, life, safety and reliability.

Oceanit proposes to develop a system to characterize weak electromagnetic fields for the investigation of the effect of both thermal and non-thermal RF/magnetic fields on biological material, and to detect resulting biological impact of the energy deposited.

Oceanit proposes to research and develop chemical or non-chemical methods and processes to impart surface morphology modifications to aluminum-magnesium (Al-Mg) alloys to mitigate and increase the exfoliation corrosion resistance.

Biological tissues collection is problematic and risky even under ideal conditions; when collection occurs in remote locations, or by minimally- trained personnel, as may occur in response to an emerging disease threat, risks are magnified. This proposal addresses this issue by developing a Field Fixation Unit (FFU) for specimen collection that utilizes single-use capsules pre-loaded with fixative ...

Oceanit proposes to develop and demonstrate novel, tailored, designer separator materials with optimized properties to maximize lithium-ion cell/battery performance, life, safety and reliability.

For the last few decades, there has been great activity aimed at developing III-V based alternatives to HgCdTe for LWIR detection. The goals include improved cost, uniformity, size/weight/power consumption, and performance. This III-V detector activity includes both materials advances and device design. Based on recent developments, there appears to be an excellent opportunity for a breakthrough i ...

The technical objectives of this proposal are: 1) Fabricate and test ridge-guide, quantum-cascade-laser (QCL) devices employing a broad-gain-spectrum active-region design and suitable for incorporation in the designed high-index-contrast (HC) photonic-crystal (PC) THz, difference-frequency-generation (DFG) QCLs ; 2) Fabricate and test large-aperture HC-PC QCL devices suitable for THz generation vi ...

CompuTherm, LLC proposes to develop innovative new generation software based on the CALPHAD method. This new software, named Pandat-Pro, will be built upon CompuTherms current Pandat software. The significant advances of Pandat-Pro are: (1) Bayesian analysis will be introduced to perform error analysis for both the optimized model parameters and the simulated properties; (2) a database management ...

The state-of-the-art in infrared scene projection uses micro-machined resistor arrays. While a proven technology, these arrays are limited in frame-rate and dynamic range, and can be prohibitively costly as array size increases. Alternative technologies ...