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Award Data
The Award database is continually updated throughout the year. As a result, data for FY20 is not expected to be complete until September, 2021.
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Large-Area Visible and UV Metal-Oxide Avalanche Photodiodes for Cherenkov Detectors
SBC: Qrona Technologies LLC Topic: 34aFor many decades photomultiplier tubes PMTs) have been the main technology for sensitive and low noise detection of photons in many high energy physics experiments. However, compared to solid-state photodetectors, PMTs are bulky, fragile, and need to be shielded from high magnetic fields and high pressures, which severely limit their application for future DOE projects. Hence, there is a need for ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of Energy -
Ultra-Clean Graphene Coating for Robust Operation of High Brightness Photocathodes
SBC: Qrona Technologies LLC Topic: 09bThe next generation of free electron lasers FELs) and the small-scale electrons accelerators designed to perform ultra-fast microscopy and diffraction experiment rely on the production of new electron guns with ultrahigh brightness cathodes. High-efficiency semiconductor e.g., GaN-based) photocathodes have been studied for this application, and there have been some advances in reducing the mean tr ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of Energy -
High-performance visible/UV photocathodes formed on large-area microchannel plates
SBC: Qrona Technologies LLC Topic: 35hReliable, high-sensitivity and high-resolution photon detectors, which can alleviate major limitations imposed by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), for future high energy physics (HEP) and nuclear physics (NP) experiments, are of great interest to DOE. Other fields that could greatly benefit from these detectors include Cherenkov telescopes in astrophysics, positron emission tomography (PET) in medica ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of Energy -
Bi-Directional Energy Storage with Innovative Geothermal Heat Pump System
SBC: Darcy Solutions Inc. Topic: 10aIn topic 10.a, Advanced Geothermal Energy Storage, Bi-Directional Energy Storage, the Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office seeks to enable innovative geothermal technologies that improve the cost and effectiveness of energy storage, including for direct use and/or use with heat pumps to provide building space heating and cooling. Heating and cooling constitute approximately 48% of b ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of Energy -
Development of a Portable Neutron/X-ray Imaging Camera
SBC: ADVANCED RESEARCH CORPORATION Topic: 02bThe DOE/NNSA is seeking development of innovative portable neutron/x- ray cameras for imaging and, when coupled with a portable source, also for radiography. This project focuses on developing such a device that promises to have excellent resolution, while also providing neutron/gamma separation. We propose to develop an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) to be employed in conjunction ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of Energy -
Connected Energy Management System to Enable Battery Electric Last-Mile Delivery Vehicles 12c
SBC: INTELENGINE LLC Topic: 12cIn this proposed SBIR project, Intelengine, LLC will develop a connected energy management system (c-EMS) for application in the nascent electrified last-mile delivery truck market, building on its current product offering for range-extended hybrid delivery trucks. With increasing desire to decarbonize, lower maintenance costs, and meet increasing regulatory requirements in urban areas, delivery f ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of Energy -
Mathematical Models of Energy Storage Technologies Used with Coal FIRST Power Generators
SBC: Terrafore Technologies LLC Topic: 25aThermal energy storage (TES) coupled with next generation Coal FIRST power generators will significantly improve efficiency, and make the plant flexible to respond to various needs of dispatchable power such as ramp-up and ramp-down, improved control to prolong the life of plant by minimizing or eliminating large rate of change of temperature. There are several technologies for storing thermal ene ...
STTR Phase I 2020 Department of Energy -
Hydrothermal Catalysis Flow Process to Convert Brown Grease into Green Gasoline, Green Jet and Green Diesel Fuels
SBC: SARTEC CORPORATION Topic: 08aThe primary challenges for creating renewable fuels are the ability to process inexpensive non-food feedstocks into biofuels that meet all quality specification, perform indistinguishably from petroleum-based fuels and are compatible with current infrastructure.Our Phase I project demonstrated the feasibility of producing biofuels from waste greases using a novel hydrothermal, continuous-flow cata ...
SBIR Phase II 2019 Department of Energy -
Engineering Analysis and Design of CO2 Geothermal Power System to Provide Dispatable Geothermal Electricity Generation and Grid-Scale Energy Storage
SBC: TerraCOH, Inc. Topic: 11bIn topic 11.b, Dispatchable Geothermal Operations, DOE seeks to enable more widespread deployment of geothermal as a dispatchable energy source.TerraCOH’s CO2 Plume Geothermal (CPG™) and Earth Battery™ technologies are ideally suited to meet DOE’s needs.Conventional geothermal power technology has generally been limited to use as a baseload power source, but with increasing penetration of ...
SBIR Phase II 2019 Department of Energy -
Dynamic and Interactive Augmented Reality in Biology for Hands-On, Group Science Learning
SBC: Innovative Design Labs Inc. Topic: 91990019R0011The team will develop a prototype of an augmented reality product for high school biology topics focusing on cellular and molecular functions. Students will be able to manipulate models and view cell processes in an engaging and informative series of hands-on group-learning lesson modules. At the end of Phase I, in a pilot study with 10 high school biology teachers and 100 high school students, th ...
SBIR Phase I 2019 Department of EducationInstitute of Education Sciences