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Quantum computers being fabricated today, often referred to as noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, have seen an increase in the number of qubits employed and an associated improvement in capabilities. Since the qubits are rapidly randomized by noise from the environment and thus lose coherence, NISQ devices are inherently susceptible to generating errors during computation. These devi ...

NanoSD, Inc. with its partners will develop a transparent, nanostructured thermally insulating film that can be applied to existing single-pane windows to reduce heat loss. To produce the nanostructured film, the team will create hollow ceramic or polymer nanobubbles and consolidate them into a dense lattice structure using heat and compression. Because it is mostly air, the resulting nanobubble s ...

Replacement of petroleum based vehicles with fuel cell electric vehicles operating on hydrogen produced from domestically available resources would dramatically decrease emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants as well as reduce dependence on oil from politically volatile regions of the world. One major inhibitor to a hydrogen society is the lack of infrastructure, which requires hydroge ...

Although thermal and cold neutron scattering is widely used and is critical for success in many areas of materials science and engineering, relatively low neutron fluxes severely limit applications of not only laboratory neutrons generators, but also large national neutron facilities. State-of-the-art thermal and cold neutron sources are large expensive national facilities, which serve diverse com ...

Many energy conversion and transfer processes critically depend on the material nanostructure details and its response to external excitation fields. Surface and volume defect formation and migration in conjunc- tion with carrier transport processes have a profound impact on the opto-electro-thermo-mechanical prop- erties of materials. Understanding these phenomena requires a unique combination of ...

The diverse workload of ever-increasing cloud and high- performance computing applications brings many challenges to traditional server-centric computing system architectures with a fixed amount of compute, memory and storage nodes. Conventional electrical interconnect approach suffers from the incapability of disaggregating the storage from the compute over few meters due to the inherent losses a ...

Oceanographic instrumentation is deployed in remote locations far from power grids, and in environments prone to biological growth that covers scientific instrumentation and interferes with data collection. The objective of this project is to extend the deployment period by capturing energy extracted from the motion of the instrumentation platform, and to improve scientific data collection by powe ...

In order to make large scale commercial production of microalgae based commodity food and fuel products, significant strides in algal productivity need to be achieved. With current regulatory guidelines, large scale outdoor cultivation of microalgae for these products restricts the use of transgenic algal strains, which in the laboratory thus far have been the primary strategy taken to effectively ...

High energy physics research, modern medicine and advanced materials are continually demanding stronger magnetic fields. Efforts to generate fields in excess of 25 Tesla have been a principal driver of High Temperature Superconductor research. Although HTS materials were discovered decades ago and have always shown significant potential for high field use, until recently magnets using the technolo ...

Toyon Research Corporation (Toyon) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) propose research, development, and demonstration of algorithms and an efficient software prototype for 3D model reconstruction using single images collected via remote sensing. In particular, the effort is focused on processing of high-resolution commercial satellite images for 3D reconstruction of buildings. ...