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The main objective of this Phase II.2 DARPA SBIR proposal is to develop a robust and reliable electrical connection strategy for softening implantable electrode arrays and industry standard connectors for use in chronic animal models at research facilities throughout the world. The Phase II.2 base period consists of two tasks: 1) to connect softening neural interfaces to wire-based and flexible po ...

Recent advances in deep sub-threshold analog and digital electronics have created a class of intelligent electronics capable of power consumption levels as low as 10 nanowatts while in the sensor’s asleep-yet-aware phase of Near Zero Power RF and Sensor Operations (N-ZERO). The sub-threshold circuits require power supply voltages typically in the 0.3 to 0.7 V range, yet the voltages of current c ...

A staggering number of microbes on Earth (99%) are not culturable using standard laboratory methods. These microbes are called “unculturable”. Microbes not grown and studied in laboratories are uncharacterized and may be a source of useful biological products and molecules. Unculturables have been found in many sample types and environments. Furthermore, characterization of these organisms wil ...

In Phase II of AQUIRE, we will develop a prototype document background generation and management system that can be used by analysts and decision makers to access information gathered from a wide variety of unstructured sources about entities, relations, and complex situations. This system will be able to (1) construct topically organized entity corpora which are automatically supplemented with st ...

A significant challenge in extracting event attributes from unstructured text is that events possess a wide array of attributes which affect decision making. In a single document, an author may describe events that have happened (realis), did not happen or could have happened (irrealis), and that may happen in the future. They may describe events which reflect a generic class of occurrences, or a ...

During the refurbishment of turbine engine parts, various coatings are applied to well-defined areas to meet specification. Uncoated surfaces are protected by a mask during the coating process. Masking materials typically include wax, tape, plastics, lacquers, or a variety of permanent masks. The time required to adequately mask a part using any of these methods is excessive, and creates a bottlen ...

Current state-of-the-art avalanche photodiode (APD) material in mid- and long-wave infrared is HgCdTe. Because impact ionization coefficient for electrons, gamma is larger than that for holes, which enables low noise multiplication in APDs. However, significant drawbacks to HgCdTe materials such as fragility, difficulty in single-crystal growth have triggered the search for III-V/IV hybrid alterna ...

The need to understand and characterize the risks posed to humans due to electromagnetic emitters has motivated the development of several high-fidelity simulation packages able to model the physical effects of electromagnetic radiation impinging on biological tissues. These simulation packages support large numbers of input parameters, make use of custom input and output file formats, and often r ...

Pointwise, Inc. proposes to provide a geometry kernel code-base and associated APIs that can be incorporated into other simulation frameworks to enable dynamic simulations involving surface mesh deformation, adaptive mesh refinement, and non-linear surface elements.The proposed API will provide geometry access in a neutral format to an open geometry kernel interface.Pointwise will incorporate link ...

The use of AF-M315E as a monopropellant promises to greatly reduce the costs associated with the manufacturing, launching, and maintaining of satellites and other spacecraft. However, AF M315E has a higher surface tension than hydrazine and is harder to capture and move using existing propellant management devices (PMD) such as vanes or galleries. Lynntech proposes to develop an additively manufac ...