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The SolarSurveillance project addresses security and reliability issues of string inverters in solar photovoltaic systems. Existing intrusion detection systems have limitations, hindering their effectiveness in detecting potential cyber threats and system failures. The project aims to develop an effective and adaptive intrusion detection system for string inverters, contributing to the development ...

Project Summary/Abstract Bone marrow aspirates are critical to the diagnosis, staging, and monitoring of hematologic conditions and cancers (e.g., leukemia, aplastic anemia, sickle cell disease, and metastasis of solid tumors), but 8-50% of aspirations are unsuccessful due to operator technique, hemodilution, or underlying pathology. Because this process is manual and error-prone, there is an oppo ...

In this project, Arktonics proposes to develop monolithically integrated GeSn photodetectors on Si for high performance IR imaging sensors.  The proposed sensing materials, GeSn semiconducting alloys, have spectral sensitivity that could cover a broad wavelength range from SWIR, MWIR, to LWIR.  The GeSn sensor array could be manufactured using standard IC industry techniques for high volume pro ...

In this project, Arktonics proposes to develop monolithically integrated high-performance (Si)GeSn lasers by using the novel aspect ratio trapping (ART) growth technology. The proposed transformative laser architecture is expected to fundamentally address the long-standing challenges of the missing high-performance light emitter to complete the whole suite of Si-photonics to enable many new applic ...

Project Summary In diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of life-threatening diseases/conditions, every minute counts and unambiguous detection of many relevant protein biomarkers is crucial. Unfortunately, the workflow of current unambiguous approach–mass spectrometry–is bottlenecked by the sample preparation process. A microwave-enhanced, flow-through microreactor is proposed here f ...

In this project, Akrtonics proposes to develop a novel Si based revolutionary infrared sensor technology potentially offering monolithic integration of CMOS circuits with a high-performance detector array made from an emerging group-IV alloy.  The proposed sensing materials, SiGeSn semiconducting alloys, have spectral sensitivity that potentially covers a broad wavelength range from SWIR, MWIR, t ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant health issue which affects service members and veterans during times of both peace and war. The high rate of TBI and blast-related concussion events resulting from current combat operations directly impacts the health and safety of individual service members and subsequently the level of unit readiness and troop retention. The impacts of TBI are felt w ...

This project will allow for the ruggedization of commercial off the shelf (COTS) small form-factor pluggable (SFP/SFP+) optical transceiver modules and a mating ruggedized fiber optic network (FON) interface module that is realtime protocol reprogrammable/reconfigurable. The combination of the proposed ruggedized R-SFP/RSFP+ fiber optic transceivers (TRX), ruggedized RNIC, and commercially availab ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project is in addressing the pressing problem of herbicide drift. For years, farmers growing organic, non-genetically modified (non-GM) and specialty crops have incurred crop damage and financial losses due to drift of volatile herbicides, such as dicamba. The EPA estimates that up to 70 million pounds of pestici ...

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