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Conventional shortwave infrared (SWIR), midwave infrared (MWIR), and long-wave (LWIR) III-V (e.g. gallium indium antimonide, or GaInSb) and II-VI (e.g. mercury cadmium telluride, or HgCdTe) epitaxial semiconductor materials show useful performance for various infrared photodetection applications, but their high-cost and substantial cooling requirements seriously limit the wide field deployment of ...

This project will establish the clear feasibility of bonded GaN-GaAs heterostructures to enable wide-bandgap heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with an unprecedented combination of high power, speed, and linearity at high frequencies (>10 GHz). Over the past decade, GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have matured in reliability and performance and set the standard in high- ...

Energy is a critical enabling component of military operations and demand for it will continue to increase over the next few decades. Effective utilization of renewable energy could reduce demand for fuel for forward operating bases (FOBs), remote operating bases (ROBs), and expeditionary forces, and battlefields providing longer term energy solutions that support sustainment of technical superior ...

Thermal imaging is an important tool for information gathering and situational awareness, especially in low light or visibly obscured conditions.  Warm objects that are emissive in the MWIR or LWIR bands can be observed, including the body heat of soldiers, exhaust gases from vehicles, rockets or firearms, residual heat in camouflaged vehicles or airframes, and many other objects critical to thre ...

Long wavelength infrared (LWIR) imaging systems, owing to their advantages in adverse environments, are crucial for target-acquisition tasks in DoD missions. Current detection and imaging technologies that cover the LWIR spectral region typically operate at cryogenic temperatures of 77 K or lower, which require expensive and bulky cooling systems that increase the overall size, weight, and power, ...

  This Phase II SBIR will design, develop, and test a software defined acoustic communications system with an open-source hardware platform, software architecture, and integrated development environment enabling end-users to operate in any subsea operational environment. This Phase II will mature this technology from proof of concept to a fully qualified acoustic modem product that meets or exce ...

Sivananthan Laboratories in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Central Florida propose to model absorption in two dimensional materials and develop designs with structured materials for the amplitude modulation of emissivity. The optical simulations—with commercial COMSOL code--will be used in the calculation of the electric field distribution in the s ...

There is a need for small SWaP-C portable neutron generators for DoD and industrial applications such as neutron and gamma radiographic imaging and directed high-energy neutrons (>6MeV) to penetrate objects for active interrogation or to induce fissions within material. This SBIR targets a critical component in the overall cost and size of neutron generation.   Phase 1 identified a novel ...

This Phase 1 SBIR will design, develop, and test a software defined acoustic communications system with an open-source hardware platform, software architecture, and integrated development environment enabling end-users to operate in any subsea operational environment. This will be accomplished through 1) development of electromechanical and computing platforms and transducers that span from below ...

The ultimate goal of this Phase II proposal is to develop and deliver one (or more) prototype solar-blind APD array systems that target a specific defense platform (platform to be determined). This project will be broken up into a 24-month BASE effort that will focus on developing the core underlying solar-blind APD array technology and developing and delivering a generic APD array system. At the ...