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Chronically implanted neural electrodes are becoming increasingly relevant a number of medical conditions ranging from the treatment of neurological disorders like epilepsy, Alzheimers, and Parkinsons disease as well as being used for brain machine inte

To meet the critical need for military wireless communications to take place over large distances in the presence of interference, we propose to develop a collaborative group navigation and communication (COGNAC) system that will enable mobile platforms to collaboratively null interference in order to communicate from one collaboration group to another in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environmen ...

Despite the advancement of prosthetics design, there exists a lack of quantifiable diagnostic fitment information for assessing the characteristics of the socket-limb interface. The lack of diagnostic data yield improperly fitted, uncomfortable, and unstable sockets. Responding to the need to develop innovative diagnostic tools for socket-limb interface quantification, TRI/Austin proposes an elec ...

The primary objective of this proposed effort is to demonstrate the feasibility of a game changing desalination concept. Given the thermodynamic minimum energy required for seawater desalination as 0.70 Wh/L, the proposed desalination process has the potential to reach an energy efficiency as low as 1.2 Wh/L. The secondary objective is to demonstrate a human powered energy harvester that powers ...

Lynntech is developing an electrochemical pump (ECP) to enable high efficiency individual water purification systems for military and civilian applications.ECPs utilize >80% less power compared to traditional pumps and are compact, lightweight, low cost, and virtually silent which make them ideal for integration into small water purification systems.Coupled to commercially available filtration mod ...

We propose to design, build, and test a) a low-power instrumentation package for use on small Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, b) autonomous algorithms to detect, characterize, and locate natural and man-made objects on the sea floor, and c) simultaneous localization and navigation algorithms, for use along optimally designed paths, to produce extremely accurate environmental maps that will be used t ...

methyst Research Inc. will design, fabricate and test a high uniformity, large area, low noise infrared trap-detector detector for the 1- 4.5 μm wavelength range. This state of the art detector will have a large area (e.g., 1-1.8 cm diameter active area) with a spatial variability of internal quantum efficiency of less than 0.1 % between 1 μm and 4.5 μm. In addition, the internal quantum effici ...

Biological, chemical and geological activity of soils and groundwater impact agriculture, hydrology, and climate. Sophisticated computer models now include a multitude of interactions that can simulate the complex nature of near, subsurface regions. Improved measurement methods are needed both to provide accurate data to those computer models and to test model predictions. Ideal instruments wil ...

Statement of the Problem or Situation that is Being Addressed Current and future data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) centers need optical communication links to transmit the aggregate data rates that are generated by servers. For these, applications current optical gears that are designed for telecommunication applications are expensive, take large space and do not match to small for ...

Project Summary: Driven by bandwidth hungry technologies such as online video and cloud computing, the skyrocketing growth of global data traffic has no sign of halting. The total amount of content passing through the worlds networks will increase from 800,000 petabytes in 2009 to 35 zettabytes in 2020. To meet the worlds endless appetite for bandwidth, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM ...