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C53-34a-271222During Phase I of this DOE SBIR program, NanoSonic addressed two opportunities identified by the Office of Nuclear Physics community regarding advanced materials for superconducting radio frequency components within particle accelerators. Specifically, NanoSonic developed new cost- effective bimetallic structure forming techniques as well as void-free, non-offgassing, additively manu ...

C53-07b-271229Optical manufacturing is a multi-billion-dollar industry that is an indispensable part of modern technology and science. The performance of any optical manufacturing process directly depends on the ability of its integrated optical surface metrology method to provide trustworthy feedback. High-accuracy metrology is vitally essential in manufacturing ultra-high-quality free-form mirro ...

C53-02b-271246Computer simulation allows for testing of parts and assemblies without having to manufacture and physically manipulate them, which can save significant time and money in the product development process. Automotive, defense, and other industries use simulation to bring safer products to market faster. Unfortunately, mainstream simulation software is incompatible with the data structur ...

C53-02a-271265Efficiently parallelizing algebraic solvers such as PETSc would vastly improve the performance of many critical scientific end applications. The major challenge in harnessing GPU systems for such algebraic solvers is simultaneously using all hardware resources via an optimized MPI environment, specifically instruction scheduling (i.e., kernel launches), computation, and communication ...

C53-01a-271272The problem to be addressed arises from the recent and rapid growth of large three- dimensional (3D) and time-varying datasets produced from sensor/observation systems, numerical simulation, and AI models and the current difficulties incorporating these data into research workflows in many data science communities. To address this problem, Pan3D will fill critical needs for (i) data ...

C53-12a-271285Current electron accelerator technologies are fundamentally limited by the photoinjector, where efficient generation of electron bunches with low emittance is required. Many facilities currently use photocathode materials with excitation by high power ultraviolet pulses, which places extreme demands on system components. Therefore, photocathode materials operating in the visible spec ...

C53-13a-271299A recent development in electron microscopes improved energy resolution ten times, enabling a new field of science: the study of atomic vibrations at the nanometer scale, down to single atoms. The proposed development will improve the energy resolution 3x further, extending the field to new areas including quantum information technology. A new type of electron monochromator, used tog ...

C53-02a-271303Open-source standard scientific software and hierarchical data format for data management is the de facto standard for scientific and engineering applications. It is widely used in large-scale simulations of physical phenomena, aircraft flight testing, high-speed neutron and X-ray detectors data acquisition, and many more. One of the known limitations of the software is a lack of mul ...

C53-20b-271305The prospect of nuclear power produced with advanced molten salt-cooled reactor (MSR) designs has garnered the attention of the Department of Energy in conjunction with the private sector. The salts are used to transfer heat from the reacting fuel. All designs describe a chemically stable salt with a melting point near 500°C, heated by the nuclear reaction to a temperature near 700� ...

C53-25a-271316Increasing demands on the Nation’s vital natural resources will require extensive and ambitious R&D efforts aimed at achieving a predictive understanding of complex biological, earth, and environmental systems. Recent advances in sensing and machine learning technologies are opening up the possibility for “smart sensor” approaches to automation and optimization of data collecti ...