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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Phase I project is to enhance scientific and technological understanding in selective harvesting of high-value crops such as strawberry. The innovation proposed here will be a key component in creating a compact economically viable autonomous strawberry harvesting robot. The technology developed in this project will help address the farming labor sho ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to enable electronic products of great environmental benefit and social value which cannot be economically made today. Among these are three important product classes that can deliver on the promise of the connection of everyday devices via internet (Internet of Things) and their rapid com ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project seeks to provide an integrated monitoring solution for wind turbine blades. Continuous and reliable monitoring within the blade has been a challenge, primarily due to the lack of reliable energy for the wireless sensor (e.g., batteries need to be replaced and can be expensive and logistically difficul ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Phase I project is to offer novel opportunities to substantially improve temperature-controlled storage and transportation systems. The technology has the potential to become the ideal temperature-sensitive medication storage solution available to advance the health and welfare of the American public and third world countries by enabling a reliable m ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is aiming to put a minute power plant in the motherboard of electronic devices. Every device with a battery in it has the potential to be enhanced with the proposed approach. This will take care of the idle and standby functions, preventing unnecessary battery drain. The benefits this provides are eno ...

The broader impact of this SBIR Phase I project will provide the medical field with a broad response detector capable of pairing with cheaper disease diagnostic tools for improved healthcare.Currently, there is not a commercially available broadband detector that can capture visible light and near infrared light.The Phase I SBIR effort will lead to an advanced detector capable of spanning this lig ...

Improvements to the performance of thermal insulation materials offer the potential to significantly reduce building energy use and operational greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the embodied greenhouse gas emissions of thermal insulation products provides a further opportunity to reduce the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the building sector, with sustainably-designed and man ...

Improvements to the performance of thermal insulation materials offer the potential to significantly reduce building energy use and operational greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the embodied greenhouse gas emissions of thermal insulation products provides a further opportunity to reduce the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the building sector, with sustainably-designed and man ...

A decade ago, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology invented an electron field emitter with the potential to disrupt the state of the art of imaging and communications systems. NIST showed that these devices, comprising nanoporous silicon carbide structures of various hierarchical shapes, can emit electrons from their surfaces purely by application of an electric field. ...

This project represents, to our knowledge, the first US commercialization of doped diamond (eg. PIN) diode-type structures offered with controlled quantum properties, enabled by phosphorous-doped diamond growth. Specifically, Advent Diamond proposes to develop novel doped quantum diamond materials for nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center-based sensors and other quantum technologies. The proposed innovatio ...