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Two-Sensor System for Absolute Age and Temperature History

Featured Opportunity • Summary Numerous commercial and military applications require knowing the absolute age and/or temperature history of a device or system starting from the time it is assembled or commissioned. Ideally this information could be obtained simply and without power. The Sandia-developed age and temperature history sensor is a physical materials system...

Two-terminal electronic charge resistance switching device

Patent • #10,950,790. A two-terminal memory device and methods for its use are provided. In the device, a bottom electrode is electrically continuous with a first operating terminal, and a control gate electrode is electrically continuous with a second operating terminal. A stack of insulator layers comprising a hopping conduction layer and...

Ultra-Fast Digital X-Ray Imager

Featured Opportunity • High Energy Density (HED) physics and inertial confinement fusion experiments rely on successively monitored images for data collection High Energy Density (HED) physics and inertial confinement fusion experiments rely on successively monitored images for data collection. Currently, gated X-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the 0.1-10 nanosecond (ns) time scale in...

Ultra-high reliability wireless communication systems and methods

Patent • #10,952,123. Systems and methods for ultra-high reliability (UHR) wireless communications systems and methods are disclosed. The disclosed UHR wireless communications systems and methods make the networked components on a communications infrastructure robust to interference caused by unintentional jamming, intermittent connectivity, weather, and physical barriers.

Ultra-low power processor-in-memory architecture

Patent • #10,083,080. An apparatus including a memory array comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A switch electrically connects to a particular row of the plurality of rows of the memory array per cycle. An energy storage unit is electrically connected to the memory array through the switch,...

Ultra-thin microporous/hybrid materials

Patent • #8,187,678. Ultra-thin hybrid and/or microporous materials and methods for their fabrication are provided. In one embodiment, the exemplary hybrid membranes can be formed including successive surface activation and reaction steps on a porous support that is patterned or non-patterned. The surface activation can be performed using remote plasma exposure to...

Ultra-Wide Bandgap Power Electronics

Featured Opportunity • Ultra-wide bandgap power electronics to miniaturize and vastly improve the performance and efficiency of power systems for electrical grids, vehicles, power supplies, and motors Power electronics used for routing, control, and conversion of electrical power traditionally utilize silicon semiconductors. These systems tend to be bulky, require active cooling, and are...

Ultra-wideband mutual coupling compensation of active electronically scanned arrays in multi-channel radar systems

Patent • #10,615,495. Technologies pertaining to the calibration of ultra-wide-band active-electronically-scanned arrays to compensate for transmit and receive mutual coupling between array elements and/or non-ideal isolated channels are described herein. A plurality of near-field measurements are taken by way of probe or probes that may be moved among a plurality of positions...

Ultra-wideband short-pulse radar with range accuracy for short range detection

Patent • #8,854,254. An ultra-wideband (UWB) radar transmitter apparatus comprises a pulse generator configured to produce from a sinusoidal input signal a pulsed output signal having a series of baseband pulses with a first pulse repetition frequency (PRF). The pulse generator includes a plurality of components that each have a nonlinear electrical...

Ultra-wideband, omni-directional, low distortion coaxial antenna

Patent • #8,928,546. An antenna for producing an omni-directional pattern, and using all frequencies of a frequency range simultaneously, is provided with first and second electrically conductive elements disposed coaxially relative to a central axis. The first element has a first surface of revolution about the axis, the first surface of revolution...

Ultralow loss cavities and waveguides scattering loss cancellation

Patent • #8,625,939. A waveguide system includes a first waveguide having surface roughness along at least one surface and a second waveguide substantially identical to the first waveguide and having substantially identical surface roughness along a corresponding side. The first and second waveguides are separated from each other by a predetermined distance...

Ultrasonic testing device having an adjustable water column

Patent • #9,121,817. An ultrasonic testing device having a variable fluid column height is disclosed. An operator is able to adjust the fluid column height in real time during an inspection to to produce optimum ultrasonic focus and separate extraneous, unwanted UT signals from those stemming from the area of interest.

Unconstrained paving and plastering method for generating finite element meshes

Patent • #7,671,858. Computer software for and a method of generating a conformal all quadrilateral or hexahedral mesh comprising selecting an object with unmeshed boundaries and performing the following while unmeshed voids are larger than twice a desired element size and unrecognizable as either a midpoint subdividable or pave-and-sweepable polyhedra: selecting a...

Universal EUV in-band intensity detector

Patent • #6,781,135. Extreme ultraviolet light is detected using a universal in-band detector for detecting extreme ultraviolet radiation that includes: (a) an EUV sensitive photodiode having a diode active area that generates a current responsive to EUV radiation; (b) one or more mirrors that reflects EUV radiation having a defined wavelength(s) to...

Use of a photonic crystal for optical amplifier gain control

Patent • #7,079,309. An optical amplifier having a uniform gain profile uses a photonic crystal to tune the density-of-states of a gain medium so as to modify the light emission rate between atomic states. The density-of-states of the gain medium is tuned by selecting the size, shape, dielectric constant, and spacing of...

Use of latent metathesis polymerization systems for additive manufacturing

Patent • #11,840,586. The invention is directed to latent metathesis-active resin compositions and additive manufacturing approaches. The latent metathesis-active compositions comprise at least one latent metathesis catalyst, at least one curable metathesis-active monomer, and optional fillers, photosensitizers, and/or a secondary monomer resin system for dual-cure. A method comprises extruding a latent metathesis-active...

Use of latent metathesis polymerization systems for photopolymerization-based additive manufacturing

Patent • #11,820,839. Photolatent olefin metathesis catalysts can be used in combination with metathesis-active monomers or resins for photopolymerization-based additive manufacturing via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). A variety of alternative catalysts and photosensitizers are commercially available that allows for tuning of thermomechanical properties, potlifes, activation rates, and irradiation wavelengths. As an example,...

Use of MgO doped with a divalent or trivalent metal cation for removing arsenic from water

Patent • #9,663,389. Systems and methods for use of magnesium hydroxide, either directly or through one or more precursors, doped with a divalent or trivalent metal cation, for removing arsenic from drinking water, including water distribution systems. In one embodiment, magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH).sub.2 (a strong adsorbent for arsenic) doped with a divalent...
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