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The facilities, centers, infrastructure, and resources of the sponsor of the proposed project are designed to be easily accessible to users over the worldwide network, while ensuring the important tasks of effective cybersecurity monitoring, situational awareness, logging, reporting, intrusion prevention, remediation, etc. Although many existing cybersecurity (detection or prevention) software too ...

Functions like data format conversion and signal routing are ubiquitous in traditional communication networks, but need modification to be suitable for use in future quantum-enabled networks. In particular, quantum signals do not allow for electronic processing and certain metrics like insertion loss and noise are much more critical for quantum signals than traditional optical signals. We will inv ...

Recent advances in computing systems fundamentally changed the way we run our everyday lives; our healthcare, finances, scientific discoveries, and entertainment activities all heavily depend on computing infrastructures, and we are likely to increasingly depend on them in the future. However, typical high-performance-computing systems and datacenters already consume megawatts of power, and future ...

3D circuit integration improves performance, reduces cost, and enables new applications by intimate heterogeneous integration of best of class semiconductor devices. A necessary element for 3D assembly is Through Silicon Vias (TSVs), which provide vertical electrical connections in the stacked device. NHanced currently employs tungsten to fill its nanoscale TSVs (0.4 to 1.2µm diameter). Tungstenâ ...

DOE manages one of the largest groundwater and soil remediation efforts in the world and is responsible for the remediation of 6.5 trillion liters of contaminated ground water and 40 million cubic meters of contaminated soil generated at over 7000 discrete sites. These efforts often involve bioremediation, in which substances are injected into the subsurface to enhance microbial decomposition, and ...

With advances in detector technology and software algorithms, single-particle cryo- electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has taken the structural biology field by storm in the past five years. As the demand for three-dimensional reconstruction of biomacromolecules grows exponentially in both the academic and industrial sectors, technology features such as high throughput, high resolution, and automation ...

Argonne National Laboratory has pioneered a new method for additively manufacturing MCPs and functionalizing their channels with atomic layer deposition. We will help extend their technology to particle detection at Nuclear Physics facilities for beam tuning, and test a prototype detector at the ATLAS facility. The following figure summarizes the 5x faster pulse response of our proposed detector: ...

Advanced beam diagnostics are essential for reliable operation of high-performance accelerators and the intense beams produced by them. Non-invasive diagnostics can be used continuously with intense beams, while invasive techniques interfere with the beams and distort the beam profiles. In addition, traditional solid-based beam monitoring instrumentation produces unacceptable levels of radiation o ...

ATC requests Phase 1 SBIR funding to develop a 2-layer NbTi Cable-in-Conduit (CIC) conductor suitable for a large-aperture 6 T dipole. ATC has successfully developed a single-layer 13 kA NbTi CIC cable, and our collaborators at Texas A&M University (TAMU) have successfully used it to make a 3 T dipole suitable for the arcs of a 100 GeV Ion Ring that has until now been the baseline design for JLEIC ...

Fundamental research is ongoing to support missions in energy, environment, and national security and, particularly, to provide foundations for new energy technologies and materials and chemical characterization through X-rays. Diffraction-limited synchrotron light sources will increase the coherent X-ray flux (up to a few orders of magnitude) and brilliance. Many beamlines can dynamically change ...