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NOVA Scientific, Inc. proposes a Phase I SBIR program to develop, refine, and ultimately to commercialize, a large format 15 cm x 15 cm solid-state cold, thermal, and epithermal neutron imaging detector based on microchannel plates (MCPs). The imaging detector will be fabricated in a self-contained, hermetically sealed image tube, which does not require active vacuum pumping. This large area time- ...

The nuclear physics data acquisition systems are challenged by the increasing demand for flexibility, accuracy, volume of data and processing speed, massive scalability, upgradability, and lower acquisition operations and maintenance costs. General precision timing synchronization for all Detector and DAQ components provides novel and original solutions to these problems especially if it can be ac ...

The time for a sample to cool and then to change temperature in a traditional top loading cryostat and be significant. Time spent waiting for a temperature change is not productive data‐collection time, and it would therefore be beneficial to users in a neutron scattering facility, as well as to those in a University research laboratory, to reduce the time required to change the temperature of t ...

Janis Research Company LLC proposes to develop an ultra-low temperature system with operation temperatures below 0.4 Kelvin and sample measurement capabilities for application of a high voltage up to 5kV. Upon further integration with an external magnetic field, this will be a unique ultra-low temperature platform to investigate the phases of multi-ferroic quantum materials and materials near a qu ...

The simulations on which we depend must adapt to changing hardware to run at exascale. The Asynchronous Many Task (AMT) model is a viable alternative to existing techniques and has numerous advantages. In situ data visualization and analysis remains an important fixture of computing for exascale so these algorithms must be expressed in terms of AMT so they will be compatible with emerging computin ...

One of the major challenges facing the world is the creation of sustainable energy sources. Biofuels and bioproducts have great potential. But the development of sustainable and efficient agricultural production methods requires deep understanding of the dynamics of plant-microbe-mineral interactions within the rhizosphere. Technologies that probe soil microbial activity in real time with high spa ...

Modern synchrotron-based X-ray imaging techniques, such as coherent X-ray diffraction imaging and phase contrast imaging require high beam coherence and highly penetrating X-rays. The new generation of synchrotrons achieve enhanced coherence at beam energies greater than 30-50keV. These new prospects for non-destructive imaging require high spatial resolution and efficient large area detectors. Cu ...

Aromatics are the main building blocks for petrochemical products and intermediates. With the majority of US crackers switching to natural gas liquids, aromatics supply from crackers has fallen in recent years. In 2017, US imported more than 1.8 million tons of benzene mainly due to the shift to a very light feedstock (mainly ethane) in steam crackers. As a result, the aromatics industry will be i ...

High energy physics research has motivated the development of high-performance detectors to enable advances in experimentation. Many detectors are often large area, flexible panels capable of resolving particle/photon location with mm resolution. The specific requirements of a given experimental setup will dictate the unique configuration of the readout layer. Given the wide range of high energy p ...

Recent advances in synchrotron radiation sources have dramatically increased their brightness, resulting in ultra-high photon fluence with beam size approaching nanometers. Their high brilliance and coherence have enabled experiments with unprecedented resolution that were previously impossible. However, in order to truly benefit from these techniques, detectors for hard X-ray with energies >30 ke ...