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The Department of Energy is interested in technologies that support the sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, and other bioproducts from plant biomass, to offset the nation’s reliance on fossil resources. The plant cell wall of energy crops provides the largest reservoir of raw materials for bioproducts. However, the widespread use of plant cell walls is hampered by their complexity and re ...

Tensors are fundamental building blocks in a wide range of high-performance computer applications including Artificial Intelligence (e.g., Deep Neural Networks) and Numerical Model and Simulation (e.g., Finite Element codes). High Performance Computer platforms are increasingly heterogeneous, with upcoming exascale platforms using heterogeneous processors (e.g., Intel Sapphire Rapids, Nvidia Grace ...

The aim of this project is to develop a novel heavy ion focal detector for magnetic spectrometers and recoil separators with high time resolution, high energy loss resolution, high energy and position resolution. It will be enabled by a “thin” detector which can provide high energy loss resolution (

This proposal is submitted in response to the SBIR/STTR OFFICE OF BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES Topic 11(a), “Superconducting undulator with high heat-load limit, (a) Development of superconducting high heat- load undulator.” This topic seeks the development of superconducting undulator (SCU) which can be operated at higher temperature than 4.2 K with higher stability and 10x higher thermal load than ...

Free-space transport lines are currently used by DOE to deliver high-power ultrashort pulse laser (USPL) beams from the laser source to the destination of applications. However, free-space transport lines always suffer from laser pointing instability control, optical damages, low transport efficiency, and maintenance difficulty. Most recently, hollow-core fibers filled with dry air, noble gas, or ...

Nuclear Physics experiments require reliable advanced electronics and systems functionality for next generation recording, processing, storage, distribution, and analysis of experimental data in extreme environments. Specifically, they seek new low-cost developments in detector instrumentation electronics for rad hard and cryogenic applications needing significantly improved energy, position, timi ...

The efficient parallelization of algebraic solvers for partial differential equations, as exemplified in PETSc, requires nearest neighbor ghost-point communication (for parallel function evaluations, sparse matrix-vector products, and preconditioner applications) and global reductions (e.g., inner products). The ghost-point communication involves non-contiguous memory access and hence hardware or ...

Statement of the problem or situation that is being addressed This proposal is submitted in response to the SBIR/STTR OFFICE OF FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES Topic 25, “Superconducting Magnets, (a) Superconducting Magnetic Technology”. Grant applications are sought to develop innovative and advanced superconducting materials and manufacturing processes that have a high potential for improved conducto ...

The relatively low temperature of light water nuclear reactors significantly limits the ability to store and utilize heat to provide the flexible dispatch of electricity that will be needed to compensate for the intermittency of a rapidly-growing renewable energy generation fleet. While heat pumps have been used in small-scale, lower-temperature applications for many years, industrial-scale heat p ...

Prixarc will partner with Alphacore Inc. to develop and commercialize high-precision, high-resolution, and high-channel count timing measurement systems for next generation detectors in high energy nuclear physics experiments. We will develop a custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)-based 64-channel Time to Digital Converter (TDC) with RMS time precision better than 10 ps, operation ...