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Low-cost systems operating at video rates within W-band have remained elusive – especially for stand-off and remote applications. Real time video rate imaging requires parallel detection modalities that traditionally led to high costs and calibration challenges. Substantial advances in low-cost packaging and chip-level integration driven by commercial millimeter-wave applications can now be appl ...

In this work, we propose to develop low-cost, high sensitivity high electron mobility transistor-based W-band millimeter wave focal plane array/camera based on mature ternary III-V epitaxial materials of InAlAs on top of InP substrate. The plasma-wave detector uses well established mature technology of high electron mobility transistors which allows future integration and reduces cost. The detecto ...

The proposed effort will employ an array of broadband (W band) antennas, integrated with high-speed (subnanosecond) GaN HEMTs in an array, to detect potential threats to military personnel. The system will be low SWaP, low-cost, and will detect a NETD of 3 degrees or less, from at least 15 meters, with a pixel resolution of < 10 cm. Millimeter wave imaging has been shown to be a useful tool in the ...

Metal-semiconductor (“Schottky”) junctions have defined the “gold standard” in sensitive, room-temperature “RF” (microwave, mm-wave, and THz) rectifiers going back over a century. As such they have already been widely pursued as elements in one- and two-dimensional arrays for “RF” imaging applications, both passive and active. However, they present a limit for the maximum RF curren ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposes development of deep learning based chemical threat detection and localization framework that exploits multiple sensor data streams including imaging and chemical sensors. The proposed technologies combine deep hypernetworks and reinforcement learning techniques to fuse sensor data streams in an online fashion. The Phase II effort will focus on developing an end- ...

As USSOCOM continues to assess the future operating environment, implementing innovative solutions that promote situational awareness (SA) is of increasing importance. While situational awareness can be tied to a variety of data-types impacting a mission, for the purposes of this effort, situational awareness tied to geospatial intelligence will be the focus. When a warfighter enters an operating ...

Imperia Batteries, a division of Physical Sciences Inc., proposes to develop and prototype a modular, safe, high energy density Jetboot battery system by combining next generation electrode and separator technologies. The modular design will allow for a single or dual module battery pack providing a lightweight and high capacity battery solution, respectively. Imperia’s battery improves safety b ...

Critical need for a non-toxic, regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber material with enhanced scrubbing capacities and safety for rebreather applications. The current state-of-the-art (SOA) scrubber material for rebreather is soda lime. Soda lime is highly toxic, has low CO2 capacity, and is non-regenerative requiring an entire logistics chain. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is developing a novel ...

In Phase II project, Bhawin LLC aims to fabricate the current concept of solid-state Li-ion battery fabricating a single continuous phase for the anode, electrolyte, and cathode, and thus, eliminating the highly resistive interfaces between the electrolyte and electrodes found in straight solid-state Li-ion batteries. Advanced Li-ion battery technology will play a critical role in the understandin ...

Warfighters need batteries capable of operating power hungry devices for longer missions while reducing the weight they must carry. USSOCOM’s 16Ah / 500 Wh/kg goal in a PRC-148 sized pack is ambitious — approximately double the existing options on the market. Thankfully, there are several cell technologies that exist at the lab/prototype level, and a handful that will be mature enough in the s ...