ELECTRON, ION, OPTICAL, ACOUSTIC, SONAR AND RADIO WAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING ADVANCED MATERIALS AND MATTER

该申请涉及一项研究计划，重点是构建新型成像设备，并开发相关成像方法，用于对气候变化、医学成像和先进材料技术目标物体的特性进行新的测量。两个工程挑战需要资金来成功开发这些成像设备，一种新型相控阵探测器和成像物体的传递函数的确定。需要相控阵探测器和物体传递函数的成像设备包括共聚焦扫描激光全息（CSLH）显微镜，用于制作质量和传热研究所需的液体内3D温度分布的非侵入性三维（3D）相位图像；扫描透射电子全息显微镜（STEHM），用于制作材料纳米结构的相位图像，以深入了解其在气候变化、量子计算和原子标本操作方面的特性；最近安装的扫描透射离子显微镜（STIM）；地球大气成像仪，即软件定义无线电（SDR）地球大气成像仪，旨在测量地球大气的特性，如其功率、能量和质量传输，以及从地球表面到地球电离层的三维温度、压力和成分；软件定义声纳（SDS）海洋成像仪，用于测量海洋上层的能量和质量传输，以及从水/空气界面到其温跃层的三维温度、压力和成分；漫射声共聚焦成像仪（DACI）用于常规前列腺和卵巢检查，具有成像、诊断、治疗病变组织和监测治疗过程的潜力。

This application involves a research program focused on constructing new types of imaging devices and developing their associated methods of imaging to be used to make new measurements of the properties of objects that target climate change, medical imaging and advanced materials technology. Two engineering challenges require funding for the successful development of these imaging devices, a new type of phase array detector and the determination of the transfer function of the imaged objects. The imaging devices requiring the phase array detectors and object transfer functions include a confocal scanning laser holography (CSLH) microscope to make non-invasive, three dimensional (3D) phase images of the 3D temperature distribution within liquids required for mass and heat transfer studies; a scanning transmission electron holography microscope (STEHM) to make phase images of material nanostructures necessary to gain insights into their properties for climate change, quantum computing and atomic specimen manipulations; a recently installed scanning transmission ion microscope (STIM); an imager of the Earth’s atmosphere, the software Defined Radio (SDR) Earth Atmosphere Imager, targeted to measure the properties of the Earth’s atmosphere such as its power, energy and mass transport as well as its 3D temperature, pressure and composition from the surface of the Earth to the Earth’s ionization layer(s); a Software Defined Sonar (SDS) Ocean Imager targeted to measure the energy and mass transport of the upper layers of the ocean as well as their 3D temperature, pressure and composition from the water/air interface to its thermoclines and a Diffuse Acoustic Confocal Imager (DACI) targeted for routine prostate and ovarian examinations with the potential to image, diagnose, treat diseased tissue and monitor the treatment process.