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High performance infrared photodetectors and light sources that span infrared wavelengths from 2 to 14 microns and beyond are critical to DoD. At the longer wavelengths these devices demand stringent cooling requirements, which add size, weight, power consumption and cost. In this program we are developing tunnel diodes based on epsilon near zero (ENZ) metal-insulator-metal (MIM) rectenna structur ...

High performance underwater operation with low probability of detection in challenging areas can provide significant value across many naval missions. There is an ongoing desire for greater range, endurance, and speed for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). Bio-informed UUV designs offer potential improvements, particularly in swimming speed. Boston Engineering is proud to offer “bio-robotics c ...

This proposal focuses on developing gyrators, isolators and circulators fabricated from goniopolar materials that have the potential to operate at high-THz frequencies. These non-reciprocal devices are essential components in telecommunications, antennas and quantum computers. The devices will be designed like those built from Hall plates, but with goniopolar materials used, as these avoid the use ...

Autonodyne has been at the forefront of autonomy in aviation for two decades, applying autonomy in every aspect of aviation. The last 5 years’ efforts have brought the same avionics, autonomy, and interfaces to unmanned aviation, both for DoD and for the emerging Urban Air Mobility (UAM and Advanced Air Mobility - AAM) market. Autonodyne was hand selected by NASA/FAA to bring our expertise in Au ...

The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) of OSD is leading a program to demonstrate a Hyper-Velocity Projectile (HVP) Gun Weapon System (HGWS) within the DoD. Emerging missile threats are highly agile, exhibit unpredictable behavior and are often protected by sophisticated counter-measures. To support the deployment of HVP weapon systems for defense against these threats, a comprehensive multi-targ ...

Nanohmics Inc. (Austin, TX), in collaboration with Prof. Dimitrios Sounas at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), propose to continue the development of a new form of time-modulated circulators, with low loss, broad bandwidth, high isolation, and the additional advantage of full autonomy. In Phase I of the program, we explored two approaches for the design of magnet-less circulators. The first on ...

The United States Department of the Navy (DON) has identified Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) as an emerging technology that can perform/enable a diverse range of underwater missions. These vehicles will need to be fast, highly efficient, quiet, and have long range and endurance. To meet this need, Spectral Energies (SE) proposes to continue the development of its biologically informed UUV cal ...

Global migration reached a staggering record of over 280 million migrants in 2020, a number that has almost quadrupled over the past 60 years. The share of the world’s population that are migrants has also markedly increased, now nearing 4% of the global population. As these numbers continue to rise, it is increasingly unsustainable for researchers in the population migration modeling (PMM) comm ...

This program will develop and demonstrate a novel modular, continuous synthesis platform that can be rapidly reconfigured to produce multiple classes of energetic materials. Continuous synthesis of energetic materials has clear safety advantages, but current approaches are slow to realize due to long process development timelines. The proposed program will develop a system integration and control ...

This Phase II STTR is a collaboration between Truventic and the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop polarization-sensitive single-photon detectors for the mm-wave and THz bands. These detectors will be based upon antenna-coupled superconducting magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene Josephson-junctions. Phase I theoretically demonstrated the potential for single photon detection, devel ...