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The Emergence of an Aerobic World - Drilling Early Earth Project.

The development of new analytical techniques, and improved models for planetary evolution have intensified research into the evolution of the Earth and targeted several critical time intervals, particularly when the biosphere and geosphere were experienci ng global-scale changes. The current prop...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Assessing and Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Automated Software Inspection

Software is everywhere in our modern technological society. People's daily lives have become increasingly dependent on complex software systems and the results of software failures have a huge social and economic impact. Research indicates that software f ailures cost the American economy nearly ...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Operator algebras

The operator algebra group is a national network with members from the University of Oslo (UiO), Oslo University College (HiO) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The present project aims at conducting research in leading are as of operator algebras, strengthening a...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

A Novel PET Detector with 3D Event Reconstruction and MRI Compatibility

In PET imaging today there is a constant demand for improved resolution, efficiency, timing and image contrast. Real progress calls for new approaches and developments within PET instrumentation. In this proposal we describe the concept of a novel 3D axia l geometry with excellent 3-dimensional s...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Boron and Phosphorus in Solar Grade Silicon

The growth of the solar cell market, indicates a shortage of solar cell feedstock silicon at present and in the near future. Therefore, creation of special technologies of this feedstock production is necessary. The most direct approach for silicon feedst ock production is to upgrade metallurgica...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Electronic and electrical properties of carbon cone materials

The use of carbon structures, as carbon nanotubes, in coatings, electrodes, light-harvesting devices and sensors is a growing research field. Carbon cone materials are recognized as a novel type of carbon, consisting of nano- to micrometer sized particles with the shape of disks and cones. The ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Ultra-short pulsed Tm-doped fiber laser systems

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nitrogen in Oxides, NITROX

The NITROX research project addresses a novel field in high temperature solid-state ionics; effects of nitrogen defects in oxides. This initiative is timely in view of the need for development of technologies for cleaner energy conversion and the emerging field of nano ionics. The principal obje...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Spatial and temporal coupling between tectonics and surface processes during lithosphere inversion of the Pyrenean-Cantabrian mountain belt

While there is significant progress in understanding first order controls on styles of rifting and passive margin formation, still relatively little is known about factors that control the structural style of inversion of these structures. Especially the importance of structural weaknesses forme...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Timescales of sediment dynamics, climate and topographic change in mountain landscapes (SedyMONT) - Erdalen and Bødalen site project

The focus of this Norwegian Individual Project (IP 5) within SedyMONT is on the Erdalen and Bødalen catchments (tributary streams) in Nordfjord, western Norway. Both valleys provide, based on the ongoing research in both catchments, excellent opportunitie s to integrate existing and detailed quan...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

TopoScandiaDeep; The Scandinavian Mountains: deep processes

Mountains form mostly at convergent or strike-slip margins and are not expected to form in intraplate settings. Uplift occurred however in various places around the North Atlantic after continental breakup, leading in particular to the Northern and Southe rn Scandinavian mountains. The aim of the...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Topology

Topology is the study of shapes and spaces. The methods developed in topology have wide consequences also for other fields in that many problems can be encoded by means of spaces (examples range from space itself and phase spaces in physics to classifyin g spaces in algebra). A fascinating new ...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nonlinear Problems in Mathematical Analysis

The project aims to strengthen and further develop basic research within the group of researchers in classical analysis and differential equations at NTNU. Situated at Norway's premier engineering school, the research team of this project has as its visio n to - operate in the two-way street be...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Requirements for Secure Information Systems

The project will develop and evaluate methodology and tool support for security requirements engineering, integrated with mainstream software development methods. The main features of the contribution will be as follows: - The methodology shall be lightwe ight, meant to be used primarily by mains...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Understanding of defects and impurities in ZnO; synthesis, doping, and band gap engineering

The project deals with understanding of fundamental physical properties of ZnO motivated to be a promising material when considering new challenges of efficient energy saving/production, further developing/securing the communication highways, developing s ensor interfaces (for example to the huma...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Corroles as functional materials

This is a collaborative project between two groups at the University of Tromsø, led by Professors Abhik Ghosh and Kenneth Ruud, and will comprise both an experimental and a theoretical component. On the experimental side, our studies will involve the syn thesis of a variety of metallocorroles, t...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

"Nuclear Matter at Extreme Conditions: Modeling High Energy Heavy Ion Reactions"

The project aims to study properties of hot and dense nuclear matter, produced in A+A collisions at bombarding energies between 1-16000 AGeV within the microscopic Monte Carlo models and macroscopic models at our disposal. Nowadays besides three microsco pic models, quark-gluon string model, ult...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Transport mechanisms in the ocean

We propose to apply and further develop two existing Large Eddy Scale (LES) ocean models and an existing k-e ocean model capable of calculating the three-dimensional turbulent ocean flow from the bottom to the free surface, where the latter forms part of the solution. The LES solvers will also be...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Ultra-slow spreading and hydrogen-based deep biosphere: A site survey proposal for zero-age drilling of the Knipovich Ridge

We propose to study geodynamic and hydrothermal processes along one of the most slow-spreading segments of the global ridge system. This will lay the ground for a European lead proposal to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) aimed to test hypothe sis on the geodynamics and the extent and...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Hybrid Quantum Computers

Quantum computers can process exponentially more information than classical computers. So, whereas, classically, a 32-bit register can operate on one 32-bit number, a quantum counterpart could simultaneously process 2^32 different numbers by using quantum entanglement and superposition. But you ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Parameterized Algorithms

The question if P=NP is today maybe the most famous mathematical problem. It has strong ties to practical computing and the central question facing the proposed research project in 'Parameterized Algorithms' is: how to cope with the NP-complete problems? Giving a better answer to this question wi...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Ion cyclotron heating in laboratory and space plasmas with flows

Current-driven ion cyclotron instabilities are the class of plasma instabilities that have the lowest threshold current to grow in a wide range of parameters relevant to space plasmas. Theoretical and experimental evidence have been given that for shear ed plasma flows parallel to the magnetic ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Fabrication of tunable mid-IR laser diodes for sensor and communication applications

This project will focus on new multi-quantum-well lasers in MBE grown gallium antimonide based materials, with wavelengths around 2.33, 2.8, and 3.5 mikrometers, and with line widths and tunability as required for trace gas sensor applications and free sp ace optical communications. The project i...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Assessement of benthic foraminifera as environmental proxy in the Arctic region

What are the long term oceanographic changes of Arctic fjord and shelf environments? In order to answer this important question this project aims to significantly advance benthic foraminifera as proxy indicators of modern and past environments in the fjor ds and shelves of Svalbard, the Barents S...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Role of Bursts in Fracture Front Propagation

This project relates to the study of the dynamics of a crack front propagating through a weak plane of a transparent block made of two Plexiglass (PMMA) plates annealed together. The main goal of the project is to study in a systematic and controlle d way, both experimentally and by simulat...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

SWAT: Semantics-preserving Weaving - Advancing the Technology

When developers construct models or programs from smaller or more generic elements, or when developers are trying to make system families instead of single systems, they are challenged by a large number of different and often overlapping and conflicting m echanisms like e.g. generics and aspect-o...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2014

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Scientific computing with algebraic and generative abstractions for geophysical problems

Computational modeling using partial differential equations (PDEs) is becoming an important tool for industry and research. The traditional methods for developing such models are time consuming and expensive. Newer methods exploting object oriented and ge nerative techniques are being developed, ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2015

Location: Vestland

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