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The Department of Energy (DOE) requires the demonstration of bimetallic corrosion-resistant surfaces for structural and cooling components used in molten-salt nuclear-reactor systems. Proposed coating materials must survive thermo-mechanical loading (e.g., no flaking or spalling) during exposure to the high-temperature conditions encountered during reactor operation and maintain metallurgical stab ...

C55-09a-270378Time-resolved circular dichroism spectroscopy has increasingly been used to probe the dynamic spin states of advanced materials like metal-halide perovskites and spintronic semiconductors. Conventional spectroscopic techniques, however, average thousands of non-sequential left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized spectra together before generating a circular dichroism spectru ...

In the face of a global energy crisis, next-generation nuclear reactors are required to be more efficient, cost-com- petitive, and capable of providing a sustainable energy supply for the changing needs of a growing population. In concrete terms, these goals mean developing reactors that operate at increased temperatures without sacrificing safety, keeping costs low, and preventing proliferation a ...

Nuclear power is a key component to the portfolio of technologies necessary to quickly deploy clean, affordable, domestic energy sources in the United States, to meet our energy security and environmental goals. Advanced Manufacturing specifically powder metallurgy-Hot Isostatic pressing is a mature technology that can be readily deployed to produce high temperature material components for nuclear ...

Superconducting and photonic qubits are the leading platforms for quantum computation, now and for the foreseeable future, and will provide essential functionality to large-scale quantum networks. To achieve this, techniques are needed to coherently convert between the microwave states used by the qubits and optical states required for long-distance communication, a conversion that needs to occur ...

C55-22c-270318More stringent challenges, as required by future high energy physics experiments, require higher radiation tolerance and higher granularity to the silicon detectors. Recently developed precision timing detector technology based on silicon Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) although exhibits excellent timing performance, cannot attain 10 µm position resolution needed for advanced 4D det ...

C55-22a-270353The DOE Office of Nuclear Physics (NP) seeks new developments in detector electronics with significantly improved energy, position, timing resolution, sensitivity, rate capability, stability, dynamic range, and background suppression. Applications are sought to develop high channel density (>=256 channels/board) digital data acquisition system with >= 100 MSPS, >=12 bit ADC informati ...

As progress in quantum information and computation leads to various ground-breaking technologies, there is a need for developing protocols to integrate systems to form quantum networks. The largest bottleneck for quantum networking is optical loss, which reduces quantum information fidelity and occurs at the component and system- level interconnects. Developing ultra-low loss interconnects is crit ...

Every particle collider experiment needs large acceptance and low mass tracking detectors between the interaction point and the calorimetric detectors. The current trend of increasing the luminosity of the next generation of particle colliders will significantly increase the number of possible hit combinations, making it extremely difficult to identify tracks with the current tracking detectors. T ...

C55-06a-270224-AbstractDemand for increased brightness of synchrotron light sources has been driven by advances in novel experimental techniques studying nanomaterials, micro- and nanocrystals, and interactions of atomic and molecular structures. Strong demand has pushed technologies of low emittance electron sources, novel concepts in electron storage rings, free electron lasers (FELs) and undula ...