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Long-term continuous moving-target surveillance from airborne electro-optical sensors provides critical information for tactical awareness situations. Tracking civilian vehicles in urban environments is a challenging problem for existing systems, which generally rely on high-resolution video imagery to identify targets by their spatial characteristics. It is difficult for current spatial-based t ...

The emerging concentration photovoltaic (CPV) technology has a broadly recognized potential in reducing the cost of electric power generation from sunlight and is seen as a key component of the national Solar America Initiative (SAI). However, the low- and mid-concentration CPV has suffered from inherent limitations of traditional optics and a lack of suitable receiver technology since its incept ...

The emerging concentration photovoltaic (CPV) technology has a broadly recognized potential in reducing the cost of electric power generation from sunlight and is seen as a key component of the national Solar America Initiative (SAI). A well established solar thermal technology provides some of the highest possible conversion of sunlight into useful heat. While CPV has suffered from inherent limit ...

The US role in ITER is focused on the key diagnostic instruments, such as the Low Field Side (LFS) Reflectometer. Present concepts for this instrument require an all-solid

While the DOE has spent billions of dollars over the past two decades building, staffing and equipping four national synchrotron radiation facilities to support advanced research in all fields by supplying intense brilliant x-ray beams covering a wide range of energies, x-ray detector capabilities have not kept pace with developments in x-ray sources and beam line facilities. Thus, while x-ray fl ...

Despite significant advancement in PV technology and efficiency, qualification testing and market penetration, actual performance in the field of operation under a myriad of environemental constraints remains an important topic. PV arrays are subject to degradation mechanisms that can significantly impact power production capability. For revenue-critical PV arrays, detection of underperformance an ...

Achieving efficiency improvements and providing demand-response programs have been identified as key elements of our national energy initiative. The residential market is the largest, yet most difficult, segment to engage in efforts to meet these objectives. This project will develop an Energy Management System that engages the consumer and enables Smart Grid services, applications, and business p ...

There currently is no effective, commercially available system for probing and testing organic photovoltaic materials (OPVs) and cells at the micro- and nanoscales. Such a probe system is critically needed to enable researchers to quickly and efficiently evaluate organic blends, characterize mixing/phase separation, and help scale up manufacturing methodologies for next generation organic and hybr ...

Desalination is one technology that can increase world-wide water resources with seawater and brackish water treatment, if the energy requirements of conventional desalination are reduced by use of innovative desalination processes and the use of solar power and heat. DOE also has an urgent focus on developing improved methods for water treatment, to environmentally acceptable standards, of

Some of the specialized detectors used in high energy physics experiments are bombarded by the highest energy particles on earth (other than cosmic rays that occur singly rather than in a bunch)