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A small size, weight, and power visible/Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) camera will be developed for precision guided gun launched munitions. This 640x512 on 8 µm pixel pitch InGaAs imaging system will be able to image light from 0.4 to 1.7 µm wavelength enabling the precision engagement of targets during the day and night and through fog and smoke. InGaAs SWIR imagers are better than visible imagers ...

Lack of transportation access affects approximately 30% of people with functional limitations. In fact, people with functional limitations experience transportation access barriers four times more than those without limitations. With the emerging market of low cost augmented and virtual reality technology, perceptual user interfaces (PUI) that interact more naturalistically with end-users are prov ...

Connected automated vehicle (CAV) technology has significant implications in terms of transportation system safety and efficiency. However, building and maintaining a wireless communication infrastructure (e.g. roadside units (RSUs), power, fiber optic lines etc.) across the U.S. is a challenging task. In urban areas, where vehicle population and vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) are high, building suc ...

The theoretical energy and power of supercapacitors is determined by their capacitance, working voltage window, and conductivities of electrode materials/electrolytes as a function of temperature. With recent advances in nanomaterials-based electrodes, the performance of supercapacitors is mainly limited by the electrolytes. Current supercapacitors use flammable organic electrolytes that are un-sa ...

This project will develop a new scientific instrument optimized for the advanced characterization of near-infrared fluorescent nanoparticles that can exist as left- or right-handed structures (enantiomers). Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are the leading current example of such nanomaterials. Applied NanoFluorescence, LLC (ANF) proposes a novel multi-mode chiroptical spectrometer that can ...

Proposed effort includes the development of a standard caliber Army munition containing a Non-Kinetic Cyber Attack payload. After the munition is activated, programmed, and fired, once over its desired target set this payload will be expelled and complete its mission. The payload programming can be set pre flight to deliver various effects depending on the mission set.

Modern Model-Based Enterprise / Engineering (MBE) systems rely on freeform surfaces built as complex combinations of geometric primitives to define engineered objects. Unfortunately, the intersection of freeform surfaces in MBE applications results in highly approximated solutions, degrading models that cost billions annually by US industry to fix. Current technology limits the abilities of users ...

Additive manufacturing is steadily advancing towards fulfilling its promise of customized and on-demand production of functional parts. However, performance of as-manufactured parts can differ significantly from the as-designed parts because the as-manufactured geometry differs from the as-designed geometry and the asmanufactured material properties are not known. Attempts to predict performance o ...

In this Phase I SBIR proposal, SandBox Semiconductor™ proposes to develop an Advanced Manufacturing and Material Measurements software tool called Weave ™ for accelerating and automating SEM image analysis for the semiconductor industry. During the development of a new manufacturing process line for a semiconductor device, tens of thousands of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images are take ...

Lithium Battery Engineering's (LBE) proposal for a unique Terrestrial Positioning System (TPS) uses modulated static magnetic fields as a robust short-range communications medium to create the terrestrial equivalent of a Global Positioning System. The TPS uses terrestrial-based transmitter stations, which are analogous to GPS satellites. The portable receivers use ultra-sensitive magnetometers bas ...