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MaXentric proposes the GAU2x2 wideband power amplifier system. The design combines MaXentric’s wideband RF PA technology with advanced digital signal processing in a single small footprint package. This tight integration is made possible through the extremely high efficiency and low power dissipation. Since very little power is dissipated as heat, the package and heat sink size can be minimized. ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will be the development of technology to improve the accuracy of skeletal evaluation within developmental and reproductive toxicology (DART) studies. The goal is to better ensure that potential therapeutics, cosmetics and agrochemicals do not cause teratogenic effects. Today, DART studies rel ...

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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project arises from addressing one of the world's major challenges - the need for water. We address this problem through the development of a novel technology for economic desalting for inexpensive clean water generation and the treatment of high concentration saline waste. There is no "one size fits all" app ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop novel microbatteries. As microsystems emerge from the lab into applications such as implantable medical devices, smart surgical tools, and discrete, autonomous sensors, there is a critical need for power systems of a similar physical size (a few cubic mm or smaller) to the new miniaturized systems themselves. The microba ...

IT IS PLANNED TO DEVELOP ABSTRACT STRUCTURES TO REPRESENT MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDITING, DISPLAY AND COMPUTATION. THESE STRUCTURES ARE TO BE MODIFIABLE THROUGH FREE-FORM EDITING, IN THE SPIRIT OF BLACKBOARD MATHEMATICS, YET EASILY CONVERTED TO TYPESETTING LANGUAGES LIKE TEX, AND SYMBOLIC MANIPULATION PACKAGES LIKE MACSYMA AND MATHEMATICA. THE MOST INTERESTING TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PULSED POWER TECHNOLOGIES FOR GENERATING TERAWATT LEVEL POWERS HAVE MADE ELECTROCRUSHING AND THE ELECTROHYDRAULIC (EH) EFFECT MORE PRACTICAL FOR COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS SUCH AS DISINTEGRATION OF ROCKS, ORE COMMINUTION, MINING AND SPARK DRILLING. DATA OBTAINED AT TETRA CORPORATION ON EH COAL PULVERIZATION AND OTHER DATA ON ORE SEPARATION THROUGH ELECTROCRUSHING HAS DEMONSTRAT ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED, COMPUTER GRAPHICAL DESIGN TOOL FOR THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS OVER DOMAINS CONTAINING GEOMETRIC FEATURES WITH WIDELY VARYING SCALES. MANY HOURS ARE PRESENTLY SPENT IN MODELING SUCH PROBLEMS. THE PROPOSED STRUCTURAL ZOOMING SYSTEM (SZS) WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE COST AND INCREASETHE ACCURACY OF SUCH ANALYSES. THE CENTRAL CONCEPT, A ...

RECENT EXPERIMENTS AT INRAD HAVE ENABLED US TO INCREASE SELECTIVITY FOR TERMINAL CHLORINATION OF ALKANES >25 FOLD BYSORBING THE ALKANES ON SOME CONVENTIONALLY SYNTHESIZED ZSM-5ZEOLITES. SELECTIVITY VARIED DRAMATICALLY DEPENDING ON THE SOURCE OF THE ZEOLITE ALTHOUGH THEY HAD SIMILAR BULK PROPERTIES. WE ASCRIBE THIS SELECTIVITY TO THE PRESENCE OF INTERFACES WITHIN THE CRYSTALS. OUR RESEARCH PLAN IS ...

DYNAMIC SEAL PERFORMANCE CAN BE IMPROVED BY FAVORABLY CONTROLLING THE FLUID PRESSURE BETWEEN THE TWO SLIDING SURFACES. FAVORABLE CONTROL OF FLUID PRESSURE IN THE MIXED FRICTION REGIME CAN LEAD TO REDUCED GROSS WEAR AND REDUCED FRICTION. IN TRADITIONAL DESIGN THE DETAIL OF THE MIXED FRICTION LUBRICATION IS LEFT TO THE INHERENT CHARACTERISTICSOF THE MATERIALS THEMSELVES. BY ALTERING MATERIAL PROPERT ...