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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

DESIGN, SIMULATION, FABRICATION, AND EVALUATION OF A PROTOTYPE VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) DATA ACQUISITION SUBSYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AVAILABLE STATE-OF-THE-ART ONE MICRON CMOS TECHNOLOGY MAY ALLOW INCORPORATION OF MORE THAN 128 CHANNELS OF 24-BIT 300 MHZ COUNTERS INTO A SINGLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT. A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM OF SIMPLE REPEATED CELLS OF COUNTERS, CONTROL AND I/O BUFFERS HAS BEEN DESIGN ...

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 ...

Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. of Jupiter, Florida proposes the combination of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes to significantly reduce part count, lead time and cost for development and production of FTTs Advanced Space propulsion Turbopump (FAST) Technology Liquid Oxygen (LOX) pump. The FAST LOX pump technology to be demonstrated signifies a significant leap forward in the u ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Conventional rockets all use a traditional bell nozzle. The nozzle represents lost weight from a payload point of view, but is necessary to direct thrust and ensure that the exhaust gas expands at the correct rate. However, this expansion velocity is dependent on the external air pressure, and for a rocket, that pressure is constantly changing. In other words, traditional bell nozzles are a compro ...

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 ...

IT IS PROPOSED THAT A NEW TYPE OF SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIAL CAN BE USED FOR A VERY SENSITIVE AND LOW MAGNETIC FIELD DETECTION DEVICE. TO DETECT THE MILITARY TARGETS, ONE NEEDS A HIGHLY SENSITIVE DEVICE BUT THE EXISTING FLUX-GATE MAGNETOMETERS ARE LIMITED BY THEIR SIGNAL-TONOISE RATIO. WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERIOR MAGNETIC MATERIALS AND IMPROVED ELECTRONICS, SOME OF THE NOISE PROBLEMS IN FLUX-GATE ...