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ZENOLEAP LLC

Address

4517 WINGED FOOT CT
LAWRENCE, KS, 66049-3837
USA

UEI: MFQ1FN9LJFZ8

Number of Employees: 2

HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: Yes

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

SBIR/STTR Involvement

Year of first award: 2020

Phase I Awards

Phase II Awards

33.33%

Conversion Rate

$698,426

Phase I Dollars

$520,695

Phase II Dollars

$1,219,120

Total Awarded

Awards

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STTR Phase I: High-Sensitivity Flexible Quantum Dots/Graphene X-Ray Detectors and Imaging Systems

Amount: $275,000 Topic: MD

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is a novel sensitive x-ray imaging platform based on a quantum approach to photo-detection. This project will leverage recent advancements in Quantum Dots/Graphene technology to demonstrate its suitability and superior performance for x-ray-based imaging medical capital equipment. This novel technological approach aims to provide an X-ray diagnostic imaging platform with superior performance and lower potential price points than semiconductor detector paradigms. The commercial impact is a novel detector array platform for the $16 billion annual x-ray imaging market, focusing on the $6.9 annual computed tomography (CT) scanner subset of the market. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a functional prototype for a novel Quantum Dots (QD)/graphene nanohybrid x-ray array detection platform for use in medical diagnostic capital equipment. This initiative aims to design and quantify the critical attributes of a novel quantum sensor platform for x-ray capture, down-conversion, and detection of down-converted low-energy photons. During this first phase, experimental tests will be completed. The results will be used to design and develop a prototype detector array with a QD-layer design onto rigid and flexible substrates for scalability onto large X-ray imaging systems. The completed prototype system will then be tested and validated for performance versus existing platforms. This Phase 1 project will quantitatively benchmark several critical attributes (cost, sensitivity, efficiency, preliminary safety) for a novel x-ray imaging nanohybrid platform versus current hybrids for future commercial integration. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

STTR

Phase I

2024

NSF

SBIR Phase I:Energy Efficient Superconducting Neuromorphic Computing Circuits

Amount: $255,999 Topic: QT

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is potential commercial development of superconducting neuromorphic computing (NC) circuits with the ability to enable true biological brain-inspired deep neural network circuit algorithms and to improve efficiency, speed, and scalability of NC by orders of magnitude. The knowledge and approaches developed through this effort may help advance the foundational development of next generation computing hardware, helping NC continue its advance toward broad market adoption, and helping the US maintain its position as a leader in processor development and production. Additionally, the integrated synthesis-characterization-application approach can be extended to a range of applications, including sensors, metamaterials, catalysis, and renewables, which require atomic-scale control of materials and interfaces. Finally, through a partnership with University of Kansas, the project will facilitate university technology transfer and will serve to educate the next generation of materials and advanced electronics scientists and engineers. The atomic-to-nanoscale design, fabrication, characterization, and application experience will not only assist in recruiting top-quality students and provide them opportunities for entrepreneurship.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to develop novel superconducting neuromorphic computing (NC) circuits consisting of atomically tunable memristors (synapses) with superconductor interconnects and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs, neurons). This superconducting NC circuit aims to enable true biological brain-inspired deep network circuit algorithms and to achieve currently unattainable levels of energy efficiency, switching speed, and scalability in NC.The proposed research will design, fabricate, and characterize superconducting memristor-SQUID NC circuit hardware including development of the corresponding algorithms for pattern recognition, with machine learning capabilities, using the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database to prove viability. The intellectual merit of the proposed research is illustrated in: (1) novel, atomically-tunable memristors with 3-4 orders of magnitude dynamic range in the on/off ratio and switching frequency that can enable spikes of different amplitudes and frequencies as demanded for emerging deep circuits, (2) SQUID neurons with very high sensitivity and low noise, and (3) neurons and interconnects that can significantly reduce power consumption by eliminating the parasitic wire resistance that, in current NC circuits, increases substantially with circuit scale.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

SBIR

Phase I

2022

NSF

Uncooled Quantum Infrared Focal Plane Arrays

Amount: $520,695 Topic: A19-123

ZenoLeap LLC proposes to exploit its ongoing research and development of uncooled quantum infrared detectors, to enable the development of larger focal plane arrays (FPAs) based on this technology. This effort will build on ZenoLeap’s Phase I success in demonstrating high-speed quantum dots/graphene van der Waals heterostructures photodetectors with uncooled figure-of-merit detectivity D* up to 2.5 × 1012 Jones at short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectrum, with a frame rate exceeding 200 Hz. Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots/graphene van der Waals heterostructures have recently emerged as a unique scheme for quantum photodetectors with distinctive advantages over their conventional semiconductor counterparts because of the enhanced light-matter interaction and spectral tunability of quantum dots (QDs), and the superior charge mobility in graphene, which together provide a promising alternative for uncooled infrared photodetectors with a gain or external quantum efficiency up to 1010. The proposed SBIR Phase II effort will optimize and refine the individual quantum IR detectors, and will then focus on developing these detectors into larger focal plane arrays. The ultimate goal of the Phase II effort will be the development of functional prototypes of next-generation uncooled FPAs, and to demonstrate functional integration of such arrays with a readout-circuit.

SBIR

Phase II

2021

DOD

ARMY

Advanced Concepts for Low-Cost High-Speed Uncooled Infrared Detectors

Amount: $167,427 Topic: A19-123

Through a partnership with the University of Kansas, ZenoLeap LLC proposes to exploit research and development of uncooled quantum infrared detectors for imaging based on our recent breakthroughs in demonstration of novel quantum dots/graphene nanohybrids photodetectors with uncooled detectivity D* up to ~1.0x1013 cm?Hz1/2/W in short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectrum. Nanohybrids have recently emerged as a unique scheme for quantum photodetectors with distinctive advantages over their conventional semiconductor counterparts on: 1) the strong quantum confinement in quantum dots, enabling superior light absorption, spectra tunability, and reduced dark current due to suppressed phonon scattering; 2) exciton dissociation and charge transfer at the quantum dots/graphene interface build-in field for efficient photo-carrier generation; and 3) high photoconductive gain and external quantum efficiency proportional to the ratio between the carrier lifetime enhanced by the quantum confinement and the extremely short charge transit time due to the high mobility of graphene. The proposed SBIR Phase 1 aims to prototype quantum devices for uncooled SWIR and MWIR detection of D* >1010 cm?Hz1/2/W and fast response times of sub-ms. The SBIR Phase 1 Option will focus on demonstration of small focal plane arrays with the readout circuits compatible for commercialization to be pursued in Phase II.

SBIR

Phase I

2020

DOD

ARMY