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Pulsed voltammetry is a characterization tool for electrochemical systems that has been around for many decades. Unlike the more commonly used cyclic voltammetry techniques, the additional degrees of freedom intrinsic to pulsed voltammetry techniques permit the decoupling of reaction kinetics from diffusion, and allow for the precise measurement of a range of reaction parameters, including the hal ...

Rotorcraft landing and takeoff is dangerous in environments where obstacles, particularly wires or power lines, exist, and pilot vision is degraded by obscurants such as dust, smoke, fog, rain and snow. This SBIR would focus on a radar solution to detecting wires and power cables when landing in a visually degraded environment. Existing data for wires and power lines with millimeter wave radars pr ...

We present a concept for improving standoff ground penetrating radar capabilities for detecting buried explosive hazards (BEH). Currently, standoff detection capabilities are limited to forward looking systems, which provide limited penetration of the ground surface due to the low grazing angle required for forward looking standoff detection. Additionally, forward looking arrays are somewhat limit ...

American warfighters require adequate real-time information about radiation exposure to make appropriate triage and engagement decisions in the aftermath of a nuclear blast. Present dosimeter technology including PIN diodes for prompt neutrons and RadFETs for prompt gamma radiation can provide this information more accurately if appropriately upgraded and utilized. In this work, RMDs dosimetry and ...

Rapid and reliable diagnostics of potential biological threats from both environmental and human samples with limited or no external power requirement under extreme environmental conditions are needed to provide a greater capability to protect soldiers in far forward military operations. Phages offer highly specific bacterial detection and identification of biological warfare agents and antibiotic ...

To provide a reduced-order computational tool for prediction of propeller-airframe interaction noise, the team of Techsburg and AVEC proposes to enhance and unify existing methods and tools for predicting inflow distortion noise currently in use by the team for design of low-noise propulsion systems. This streamlined and user-friendly inflow noise modeling tool will be called the Installed Propell ...

Triton Systems and our partner Fatigue Technology propose to develop a room temperature installation method for metal matrix composite bearing liners.Bearing liners will be cold expanded into aluminum and magnesium housings to verify the proper interference fits are maintained at the required duty cycles.The install and uninstall procedures will be occur in housings with bore diameters ranging fro ...

Composite structures are increasingly replacing traditional metallic materials in aerospace platforms due to their high strength to weight ratios, manipulative properties, and corrosion resistance.Unfortunately, these systems tend to be brittle and typically do not resist or tolerate damage as well.To combat this issue, composite components are often designed with increased thickness, component re ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to design, fabricate, and test printed structures with embedded RF components.These components include traces, waveguides, antennas, and connectors.SI2s materials are printed directly from a computer file in an ambient environment without any tooling, masks, etc.SI2s extensive materials printing and RF design experience will be brought to bear, affording light ...

The Army desires a laser source with the ability to vary the pulse width from 2 ns to160 ns, while maintaining constant energy per pulse. A secondary desire is to vary output energy from 1 to 10 mJ, with a limit of 500kW. Fibertek has developed a novel approach to meet both of these goals. Fibertek will also develop a design for electronics control and cooling and a Graphical User Interface. Fiber ...