Silicon Receiver for Millimeter Wave Distributed Aperture Imager with Optical Upconversion
Company: Phase Sensitive Innovations Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: In this SBIR effort we will design (Phase I) and demonstrate (Phase II) an integrated silicon electronic-photonic upconversion receiver that when used with our photonic backend will allow for a highly sensitive, real-time, and economical millimeter wave (mmW) imaging system. The development of this… more
Silicon Receiver for Millimeter Wave Distributed Aperture Imager with Optical Upconversion
Company: Phase Sensitive Innovations Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 2Abstract: In this Phase II SBIR effort we will dramatically reduce the size, weight, and power requirements of a passive millimeter wave imaging system based on optical upconversion. To this end, we will integrate custom silicon-germanium low noise amplifiers that have been designed to efficiently couple… more
Automation of Material Placement for Aircraft Radomes
Company: Accudyne Systems Inc Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: ABSTRACT: Accudyne proposes a SBIR program to develop an automated material placement process for aircraft radomes and demonstrate it by forming quartz cynate ester fabric over an existing radome tool. The process employs computer simulations to model the forming process and compute a 2D fabric… more
A Handheld, Low Cost, and High Throughput Sensor for Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Detection and Quantifications in Military Fuels
Company: AlphaSense, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Although biodiesels have been increasingly used in automobiles, trains, commercial aircrafts and heating systems, they are not currently used in the military aircrafts and land vehicles because they typically do not meet the JP-8 performance criteria as specified by MIL-PRF-83133E. Unintentional… more
A Compact, Low Cost, Handheld Sensor for Non- Destructive Material Case Depth Verification
Company: AlphaSense, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 2Abstract: In this SBIR program, AlphaSense, Inc. teamed with the Center for Non-destructive Evaluations at Iowa State University to develop a compact, low cost handheld sensor for non-destructive material case depth verification. In phase I, we have proven the feasibility of using an alternating current… more
Thin Diamond for Time-of-Flight Detectors
Company: Applied Diamond, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOE / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Detectors and radiation monitors for future high energy and nuclear physics experiments must be able to withstand radiation environments several orders of magnitude harsher than those of any current device. At present, most radiation detectors are based on silicon technology, however,… more
Enhancing Biosynthesis of Biofuels from Cellulosic Biomass
Company: Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: USDA / SBIR / 2012 / 2Abstract: There continues to be a need for production of biofuels from agricultural sources. Butanol is a more attractive fuel than ethanol because it leads to better gas mileage, it achieves higher blends with gasoline than bioethanol, it has greater compatibility with existing fuel infrastructure, it is… more
Enhanced Drying of Pipeline Ethanol
Company: Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: EPA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: There continues to be a need for low cost production and shipment of fuel-grade ethanol from agricultural sources. Ethanol from agricultural sources has many advantages including developing fuel independence and significantly reducing greenhouse gases. Also, bio-ethanol has significant value as an… more
Novel Membrane Systems for Olefin/Paraffin Separation
Company: Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOE / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Ethylene and propylene are the primary feedstocks for the manufacture of polyethylene and polypropylene, respectively. These olefins represent a major component of the polymer manufacturing cost. Consequently, there is significant economic benefit in minimizing losses of unreacted olefin from the… more
A Platform-Independent Framerwork for Efficient Massively Parallel Execution
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Next-generation high-performance computers (HPCs) are built as massively parallel systems where the parallelism exists at many levels. These systems are a collection of nodes all working together. Each node generally contains more than one processor and each processor contains multiple cores. … more
Accelerated Linear Algebra Solvers for Multi-Core GPU-Based Computing Architectures
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2012 / 2Abstract: ABSTRACT: High-performance computing (HPC) programmers and domain experts, such as those in the Air Force's research divisions, develop solvers for a wide variety of application areas such as modeling next generation aircraft and weapons designs and advanced image processing analysis. When… more
Ultrafast Hybrid Active Materials and Devices for Compact RF Photonics
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2012 / 2Abstract: ABSTRACT: Optical control of RF-signal transmission presents an attractive avenue for processing and transmitting RF information using various optical components, as opposed to electronic control, where metallic wires/cables are required. On a macroscopic scale, optical fibers offer low… more
Advanced Long-Range Video Capabilities Using Speckle Imaging Techniques
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Flight-testing is a crucial component in NASA's mission to research and develop of new aeronautical concepts, allowing for verification of simulated and wind-tunnel results, and exposing previously unforeseen design problems. Video is an invaluable tool for flight-testing, allowing the… more
OpenCL-Based Linear Algebra Libraries for High-Performance Computing
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Despite its promise, OpenCL adoption is slow, owing to a lack of libraries and tools. Vendors have shown few signs of plans to provide OpenCL libraries, and were they to do so they would likely be incompatible with one another, much as NVIDIA's BLAS (CUDA) is presently not interchangeable with… more
SBIR Phase I: Cultivation of Duckweed for Bioremediation of Delaware and Chesapeake Watersheds, and for the Sustainable Production of a Renewable Chemical Feedstock
Company: Elcriton Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NSF / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a duckweed system for poultry waste bioremediation and use of the duckweed as a renewable feedstock for Clostridium acetobutylicum (Cac) biofuel production. Runoff from agricultural, municipal and other sources leads to… more
Carbon Nanotube (CNT) and Carbon Fiber Reinforced SiC Optical Components
Company: M CUBED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: M Cubed has developed and patented technology to make carbon fiber reinforced SiC composites and components. In addition, the feasibility of doubling the toughness of SiC with carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforcement has been proven. In this program, M Cubed will demonstrate further innovative… more
28GHz-43GHz Nadir/Near-Nadir (~70-90 degrees wrt horizontal) Low Probability of Intercept Radio Frequency Direction Finding/GeoLocation Capability
Company: Spectrum Magnetics, LLC Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 2Abstract: In this program, we propose a radio frequency (RF) direction finding sensor for low probability of intercept (LPI) RF radar system. This sensor consists of a dielectric lenses focusing system and an innovative focus plane detector array (FPDA) developed by Spectrum Magnetics, LLC (SM). The focusing… more
Anion Exchange Resin for Chirality-based Separation of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes
Company: Sepax Technologies, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOC / SBIR / 2012 / 2Abstract: Sepax Technologies, Inc. has identified a new type of anoin-exchange resin which separates single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with >80% recovery yield and resolves in a single pass the chiral tubes of (6,5) well from commercial SWCNT starting materials by Chromatography. Improvement and scale up… more
Echo Time Distance Measurements for Nanosatellite Arrays
Company: American Academy of Aeronautics Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: This proposal presents a technique for the precise determination of distance between nodes of a planar array of nanosatellites for synthetic aperture and sensor array applications. The proposed effort will result in a navigational technique that can precisely determine the positions of nanosatellite… more
ISS Additive Manufacturing Facility for On-Demand Fabrication in Space
Company: Made in Space, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: The ability to manufacture on the International Space Station will enable on-demand repair and production capability, as well as essential research for manufacturing on long-term missions.Having an Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) on the ISS will allow for immediate repair of essential… more
Diamond Refractive Focusing Optics
Company: Delaware Diamond Knives, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOE / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Synchrotron-based science has had a great scientific impact and will continue to have great impact going forward. In spite of the large investment in the 3rd generation light sources, most beam lines do not preserve the sources phase profile or brightness all the way to the sample. For these high… more
SBIR Phase I: Contextual ASR to Support EHR Adoption
Company: VMT, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NSF / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: This Small Business Innovative Research SBIR Phase I project will use statistical analysis of historical medical records to create families of language models for each section of the traditional medical note and switch lexicons in and out of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real time based… more
SBIR Phase I: Batch Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Improved Probe Tips for Scanned Probe Microscopy
Company: Tiptek, LLC Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NSF / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will focus on the development and scale-up of a new process for fabricating probe tips for atomic force microscopy (AFM). In AFM, images of surfaces with atomic-scale resolution are created by rastering a probe across the surface. The probe… more
SBIR Phase I: Development of a Learning Tool for ADHD that Enhances Memory During Sleep
Company: Sheepdog Sciences Inc Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NSF / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project supports the work of Sheepdog Sciences to develop novel methods to enhance learning for people diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This project is focused on developing low-cost devices that safely enhance cognitive… more
Development and Testing of a Device for Enhancing Memory During Sleep
Company: Sheepdog Sciences Inc Agency/Program/Year/Phase: HHS / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cognitive deficits associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and learning disabilities affect the independence and well-being of tens of millions of Americans. Recent research in the fields of neuroscience and psychology suggest… more