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This SBIR Phase I project will investigate the possibility of using a network of low-cost, battery-powered radio frequency (RF) transceivers to detect, localize and track the movements of people illegally trying to enter the US borders through wooded areas. The system uses radio tomography (RT), i.e., the changes in radio signal strength (RSS) measurements on the static links of the network over t ...

In response to this U.S. Department of Energy Phase I Energy Conservation Applications for Solid- State Lighting (OLEDs) SBIR, InnoSys and Universal Display Corporation (UDC) propose to develop and commercialize drivers and power supplies specifically designed for high efficiency phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) lighting panels, for a variety of indoor and outdoor lighting ap ...

High Performance Computing has enabled computer modeling of everlarger and more complex problems. For some of these problems, models utilizing allhexahedral meshes are preferred due to better accuracy and efficiency. However, algorithms for automatic generation of all hex meshes in general geometries have so far eluded researchers. Currently, these meshes are typically created by subdividing the o ...

The development of large-area (m2) photodetectors with time resolutions of picoseconds (10-12 seconds) and submillimeter space resolutions would open new opportunities in many areas, including collider detectors, rare kaon experiments, and neutrino experiments in particle and nuclear physics, X-ray detection at light sources, and Time-Of -Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET). This propo ...

The objective of this project is to design and build a high-efficiency neutron detector array consisting of 3000 pixels, with each pixel being 100 microns wide and 4 cm tall, all based on the microstructured semiconductor neutron detector (MSND) technology. The MSND technology resulted in over 40 publications, three allowed patents, one patent pending, and recently received an R & amp;D 100 award ...

In this SBIR Project MagiCom proposes several innovative concepts to develop a light weight and low power communication system to enable small kill vehicle communications in flight. The proposed Communications Concept will have the lowest possible weight impact on the KV. MagiCom proposes an Ultra-Wideband Communications System using a State of the Art Reconfigurable Multi-Band Conformal Array ba ...

A multiscale modeling approach is proposed for the development and implementation of physics-based EOS and constitutive models within a multimaterials continuum modeling framework. Accurate EOS and rate-dependent constitutive (flow, yield stress, damage) models for plate glass, PMMA and segmented elastomers will be developed based upon equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations ...

Espira has developed a Biohazard Water Analyzer (BWA) for field-based rapid pathogen detection. BWA employs advanced technologies including microfluidic sample preparation for nucleotide analysis and highly sensitive carbon nanotube-based electrochemical sensing for rapid detection of indicator coliform and indicator bacteria. The BWA has successfully been tested for E. Coli detection in drinking ...

Existing building stock represents a significant opportunity for energy savings through efficiency measures, as it accounts for 41% of US energy use. Advanced control strategies and better systems commissioning offer the least expensive routes to energy savings by utilizing existing building infrastructure with only minimal additional investment cost. If a conservative estimate of 25% energy savin ...

Wetzel Engineering, Inc., proposes research and development to engineer very large wind turbine rotor blades for land-based machines that avoid expensive and logistically challenging transportation requirements. The proposed solution combines two technologies: Sectional component-based assembly of large wind turbine rotor blades ( & gt;65m length) using design approaches adapted from aerospace co ...