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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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Very Large Area Microchannel Plate Neutron Detectors
SBC: NOVA SCIENTIFIC INCORPORATED Topic: 18aNOVA Scientific, Inc., teamed with the Electronics Group of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, proposes to construct very large area Microchannel Plate neutron detectors. The applications of these much larger format detectors will serve an exceptionally broad range of government agencies from neutron scattering detectors for DOE to nuclear material panel detectors for NNSA, and ultimately to nuclear m ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of Energy -
High Pressure Open Channel Electroosmotic Pump
SBC: MicroChem Solutions Topic: 57cThe objective of lab-on-chip (LOC) or -TAS is to integrate and perform multiple analytical processes (e.g. sample pretreatment, solution distribution/mixing, separation, detection, etc.) on a microchip platform. So far, most LOC research has been focused on electrophoretic separations. Little has been done on multi-process integration, due mainly to the lack of a robust and miniaturized pump that ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of Energy -
Development of Microarrays-based Metagenomics Technology for Monitoring Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Subsurface Environments
SBC: Glomics, Inc Topic: 33bDue to their vast diversity and as-yet uncultivated status, detecting, characterizing and quantifying microorganisms in natural settings are of grand challenge, and understanding the mechanistic linkages between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning and their feedback responses to human activities and climate change is even more difficult. There is an urgent need to develop rapid high thro ...
STTR Phase II 2011 Department of Energy -
Development of Novel Random Network Theory-Based Approaches to Identify Network Interactions Among Nitrifying Bacteria
SBC: Glomics, Inc Topic: 35aThe interactions among different microbial populations in a community play critical roles in determining ecosystem functioning but very little is known about the network interactions in a microbial community due to the lack of appropriate experimental data and computational analytic tools. High-throughput metagenomics technologies can rapidly produce massive data, but one of the greatest challenge ...
STTR Phase II 2011 Department of Energy -
Development of High Current 2G High Temperature Superconductor Cabling Technology
SBC: Supercon, Inc. Topic: 66cFuture magnets for Fusion Energy Systems require superconducting cables with improved high critical current carrying capacity at high magnetic fields, 20 Kelvin operation, low AC losses and lower cost. A new method of fabricating a high current cable with 2G HTS tapes has been developed that will improve the engineering current density achievable. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits: Fut ...
STTR Phase II 2011 Department of Energy -
The Use of Hydrogen for Defect Reduction in Large Format Infrared Detector Materials
SBC: Amethyst Research Incorporated Topic: MDA11T002Active defects negatively impact the performance of IRFPAs by increasing noise at various levels up to, and including, catastrophic degradation. Evidence indicates that"killer defects"are related to the interaction of open core screw dislocations with impurities that remain after substrate preparation, prior to HgCdTe growth. This impurity diffusion creates a conducting channel that shorts the j ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High Operability HgCdTe Focal Plane Arrays on Si by Mitigation of Defects
SBC: Amethyst Research Incorporated Topic: MDA11T002For HgCdTe infrared focal plane arrays fabricated on Si substrates, a model has recently been proposed to account for the disparity between the density of failed pixels and the density of dislocations that are present in the HgCdTe junction region. The model distinguishes between active and inactive dislocations and offers a hypothesis that dislocations are active only when they intersect particul ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Defect Reduction at the Silicon (112) Wafer Surface by Amorphization and Recrystallization
SBC: Amethyst Research Incorporated Topic: MDA11T002Silicon wafers oriented on (112) are the preferred substrates for deposition of mercury cadmium telluride layers by molecular beam epitaxy. Surface defects introduced during polishing of the wafers degrade the quality of the epitaxy and the performance of infrared detectors fabricated within these materials. We propose a process for reducing the density of the defects that are inherent in the si ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High-Speed Three-Channel Photonic Time Delay Unit
SBC: AGILTRON, INC. Topic: MDA08T012An innovative, super-miniature, fast-switching array-based photonic time delay device is being developed for the active electronically scanned-array (AESA) MDA and Navy radars. The design is based on the fast electro-optic effect, the super miniature fiber-lens collimation array, and the existing WDM photonic true time delay technologies. In Phase I Agiltron has successfully demonstrated the core ...
STTR Phase II 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Improved SiC Materials for High Power Electronics
SBC: PHOENIX INNOVATION, INC. Topic: N/ASilicon has long been the semiconductor of choice for high-voltage power electronic applications. Recently, SiC has attracted attention because SiC is projected to have better performance than silicon. [1] SiC power switching devices have yet to becommercialized, largely due to SiC crystal defects, most notably the device-killing micropipe defect, which does not permit high total current parts t ...
STTR Phase I 2001 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency