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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I (SBIR) project will develop a novel sensing coating that will be deposited on filters for the detection of water-borne contaminants. The initial target will be the oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum, a water- borne pthogen. C. Parvum was responsible for the outbreak of cryptosporidiosis affecting 400,000 in Milwaukee WI in 1993 and other smaller outbr ...

THIS PROGRAM WILL DEMONSTRATE HIGH SPECIFIC POWER, LIGHTWEIGHT, FLEXIBLE, THIN SILICON SOLAR CELLS. THESE SOLAR CELLS CAN BE DIRECTLY SUBSTITUTED FOR EXISTING STATE OF THE ART SILICON SOLAR CELLS WITH THE EFFECT OF SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVING SPECIFIC POWER, POWER/AREA, AND POWER SUPPLY LIFE. THE PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A LIGHTWEIGHT, FLEXIBLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE, ULTRA-THIN SILICON SOLAR CELL THAT INCORPORA ...

ASTROPOWER IS PROPOSING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH PERFORMANCE, THIN LIGHT TRAPPING GAAS SOLAR CELL FOR ADVANCED SPACE POWER SYSTEMS. A THIN DEVICE LEADS TO HIGHER PERFORMANCE IN TERMS OF OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE, RADIATION RESISTANCE, AND SPECIFIC POWER. IN A THIN DEVICE, THE INCORPORATION OF LIGHT TRAPPING TO EXTEND THE OPTICAL PATH LENGTH PERMITS GREATER CURRENT GENERATIC THAN CA ...

THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A (GAP)1-X(ZNS)X-BASED MATERIAL IS BEING ENGINEERED TO PREPARE AN UTEROPOLAR, DIRECT BANDGAP MATERIAL. THIS TYPE OF MATERIAL WITH BANDGAP IN EXCESS OF 2.6 EV CAN BE EMPLOYED IN BLUE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES, AND IN UV DETECTORS CAPABLE OF SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE COMPARED TO SILICON, IN HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS IN EARTH ORBIT AND PARTICLE ACCELER ...

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The 1990 Federal Clean Air Act mandated the incorporation of oxygenates into gasoline in ozone and carbon monoxide nonattainment areas. Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) is the oxygenate of choice due to economic and supply considerations. Despite federal and state programs to improve handling of gasoline and other fuels in pipelines, underground and above-ground storage tanks, and other transpor ...

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Dakota Technologies, Inc. (DTI), has demonstrated successfully key technologies used in the operation of a miniature gas chromatograph (GC) that fits inside a push rod for field screening and quantification of subsurface volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The GC is soft-pushed (no percussion) into the earth and uses a heated microporous inlet membrane on the side of the probe to transfer VOCs from ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will lead to a breakthrough in the use of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) for chromatographic detection. Commercial standalone LIF detectors are based on CW lasers and collect data at a fixed wavelength. Consequently, they add minimal capability for resolving complex mixtures beyond that inherent in the chromatographic separation its ...