U.S. Department of Energy
Small Business Innovation Research Program
and
Small Business Technology Transfer Program
FY 2004 Phase I - Abstracts

 

FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY  

  1. *STTR Project: A High Intensity Neutron Source for the Detection of Unexploded Ordnance

Alme and Associates, Los Alamos, NM

  1. *STTR Project: A Modular Neutron Source for the Detection of Shielded Highly Enriched Uranium in Shipping Containers

Alme and Associates, Los Alamos, NM

  1. Improved Magnetron Injection Guns for Gyrotrons

Calabazas Creek Research, Saratoga, CA

  1. Novel, Laser-Based Probe for Measuring Neutral Densities in Tokamak Plasmas

HY-Tech Research Corporation, Radford, VA

  1. A 200 km/s Plasma Accelerator for Magneto-Inertial Fusion and for Refueling Magnetic Fusion

HyperV Technologies Corp., Fairfax Station, VA

  1. *STTR Project: Integrative Predictive Models for ICRF-Edge Plasma Interactions

Lodestar Research Corporation, Boulder, CO

  1. Inductive Plasma Accelerator

MSNW, Bellevue, WA

  1. Rapidly Tunable, High Throughput Spectral Filter for Plasma Diagnostics

NOVA Photonics, Inc., Princeton, NJ

  1. *STTR Project: A Dipole Assisted IEC Neutron Source

NPL Associates, Inc., Champaign, IL

  1. Internal Magnetic Field Measurement of Plasmas Using an Alpha Particle VxB Detector

Princeton Scientific Instruments, Inc., Monmouth Junction, NJ

  1. FSML-Fusion Simulation Markup Language for Interoperability of Data and Analysis Tools

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO

  1. Improving Between-Shot Fusion Data Analysis with Parallel Structures

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO

 

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS 

  1. Innovative, Low Cost, Radiation-Resistant Fusion Magnet Insulation

Composite Technology Development, Inc., Lafayette, CO 

  1. *STTR Project: Solid State and Resistance Joining Technologies for Fusion Energy

Systems

DDL OMNI Engineering, McLean, VA

  1. Lower Cost Nb3Sn Internal-Tin Strand for ITER Fusion Project

Hyper Tech Research, Inc., Troy, OH 

  1. Development of a Canonical Approach to Liquid Metal MHD Computations and

Experiments

HyPerComp, Inc., Westlake, CA

  1. Flowing Liquid Lithium Walls Using Engineered Surfaces

Plasma Processes, Inc., Huntsville, AL

  1. Microstructural Refinement of Tantalum for Superconductor Diffusion Barrier

Applications

Shear Form, College Station, TX

  1. *STTR Project: Fabrication of Chemically Doped, High Upper Critical Field Magnesium

Diboride Superconducting Wires

Specialty Materials, Inc., Lowell, MA

  1. *STTR Project: Advanced Plasma Gun Development for Simulating Edge-Localized-Mode Plasma Disruptions with Application to Free Surface Flowing Liquid Metal PFCs

Starfire Industries LLC, Urbana, IL

 

INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY 

  1. *STTR Project: Optimized Superconducting Quadrupole Arrays for Multiple Beam Transport

Advanced Magnet Laboratory, Inc., Palm Bay, FL

  1. *STTR Project: Cryostat with Foil and MLI

Advanced Magnetic and Cryogenic, LLC, Macungie, PA

  1. *STTR Project: Pulsed Liquid Metal Ion Source for Heavy Ion Fusion

Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation, San Leandro, CA

  1. Efficient 3D Plasma Ion Source Modeling with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

FAR-TECH, Inc., San Diego, CA

  1. *STTR Project: Ion Beam Drift Compression Technology for HCX

First Point Scientific, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA

  1. *STTR Project: Computational Module for Charge Exchange and Ion Stripping in HIB Transport

NPL Associates, Inc., Champaign, IL

 

HIGH-FIELD SUPERCONDUCTOR AND SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE COLLIDERS 

  1. High Superconductor Fraction, High Engineering Critical Current Density Bi-2212/Ag Wires Fabricated by Ultrasonic Wire Drawing

Global Research and Development, Inc., Troy, OH

  1. Ternary Nb-Ti-Ta Alloys for High Field 2 K Applications--Alloy Selection and Process Optimization

Global Research and Development, Inc., Troy, OH

  1. Increase Piece Length and Reduce Cost of A15 Superconductor Wire by Eliminating Wire Drawing Breakage

INNOVARE, Inc., Bath, PA

  1. Moldable Ceramic Composites for High Field Magnet Applications

MultiPhase Composites, Longmont, CO

  1. *STTR Project: Hydrogen Cryostat for Muon Beam Cooling

MUONS, Inc., Batavia, IL

  1. Improved Fin Designs to Reduce Deffective in Internal-Tin Nb3Sn

Supergenics, LLC, Sarasota, FL

 

ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS 

  1. Exploration of Long-Life Polarized Electron Sources

Advanced Energy Systems, Inc., Medford, NY

  1. Tm-Doped Ceramic Laser for Laser Accelerator Applications

Boston Applied Technologies, Woburn, MA 

  1. Development of a Tunable Dielectric Loaded Accelerating Structure

Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, OH 

  1. Low Loss Ferroelectric Material Development for Accelerator Applications

Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, OH 

  1. High Precision Integrated Beam-Position, Emittance, and Third-Moment Monitor

FAR-TECH, Inc., San Diego, CA 

  1. *STTR Project: Hybrid Nanocrystalline Permanent Magnets for Beam Focusing in High Energy Accelerators

FutureTek USA Corp., Dayton, OH 

  1. Open Architecture Software Integration System for Particle Beam Optics

G. H. Gillespie Associates, Inc., Del Mar, CA 

  1. Laser Systems Development for the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source Photoinjector

Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc., Boulder, CO 

  1. Gaseous H2 Absorber for Muon Beam Cooling

MUONS, Inc., Batavia, IL 

  1. Ionization Cooling Using Parametric Resonances

MUONS, Inc., Batavia, IL 

  1. *STTR Project: RF Gun with High-Current-Density Field Emission Cathode

Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT 

  1. Feasibility Study of a Compact Gas-Filled Storage Ring for 6-D Cooling of Muon Beams

Particle Beam Lasers, Inc., Northridge, CA 

  1. *STTR Project: Self-Validating Knowledge-Guided On-Line Optics and Orbit Correction in an Electron Storage Ring Using a Combined Neural Network and First-Principle Model

Pavilion Technologies, Inc., Austin TX 

  1. An Inexpensive High-Current Betatron Using Fixed-Field Alternating-Gradient Focusing and New Low-Loss Magnetic Materials

Radia Technologies, Moreno Valley, CA 

  1. Advanced Gas Jet Nozzle for Laser Wakefield Acceleration

STI Optronics, Inc., Bellevue, WA 

  1. Advanced 3D Photocathode Modeling and Simulations

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 

  1. Rapid 3-D Simulation of a Bunch-Length Diagnostic for Laser Wakefield Accelerators via Coherent Transition Radiation at THz Frequencies

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 

  1. Electron Cloud Diagnostic for Quadrupole Magnets

TechSource, Inc., Santa Fe, NM

 

RADIO FREQUENCY ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS AND COLLIDERS 

  1. Production of Seamless Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities from Ultra-Fine-Grained Niobium

Black Laboratories, LLC, Newport News, VA 

  1. Development of a 200 MHz, Multiple Beam Klystron

Calabazas Creek Research, Saratoga, CA 

  1. High Peak Power Gyroklystron with an Inverted Magnetron Injection Gun

Calabazas Creek Research, Saratoga, CA 

  1. Reentrant 500 k V Connection for Inverted Sheet Beam Klystron

Diversified Technologies, Inc., Bedford, MA 

  1. Development of a High Efficiency Output Circuit for a Spatial Modulation High Power Microwave Amplifier

Haimson Research Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 

  1. Development of a High Gain, High Power Traveling Wave Relativistic Klystron

Haimson Research Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 

  1. Development and Testing of a Demountable Sheet Electron Beam Analyzer with Fluorescent Screen

MacroMetalics, Division of Elcon, San Jose, CA 

  1. 120 MW, 800 MHz Magnicon for a Future Muon Collider

Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT 

  1. High-Power Ferroelectric Switch for an X-Band RF Pulse Compressor

Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT 

  1. Quasi-Optical 3-dB Hybrid for Future High-Energy Accelerators

Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT 

  1. Light Activated Solid-State Switch for Hydrogen Thyratron Replacement

OptiSwitch Technology Corporation, San Diego, CA 

  1. Advanced Capacitance Development for Marxed Modulators

Sci-Eng Solutions, Columbia, MO 

  1. Tools for Studying Multipactor in Dielectric Waveguide Structures

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO

 

TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE NEXT-GENERATION ELECTRON-POSITRON LINEAR COLLIDER 

  1. Improving the Performance of High Gradient RF Structures by Surface Treatment with Gas Cluster Ion Beams

Epion Corporation, Billerica, MA 

  1. *STTR Project: Surface Films to Suppress Field Emission in High-Power Microwave Components

Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT 

  1. High Resolution Seismometer Insensitive to Magnetic Fields for the Linear Collider Program

PMD Scientific, Inc., Bloomfield, CT 

  1. An Automated Magnet Positioning System for Use in the Next Linear Collider

Square One Systems Design, Jackson, WY 

  1. Linearized Wigglers for Damping Rings

STI Optronics, Inc., Bellevue, WA 

 

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTORS 

  1. Advanced Fluoropolymer Vessels for Ultra-Clean Ionization and Scintillation Detectors

Applied Plastics Technology, Inc., Bristol, RI 

  1. *STTR Project: Thinner Silicon Detectors and Novel Interconnections for Robust High Energy Physics Detectors

Digital Optics Corporation, Charlotte, NC 

  1. Ceramic Microchannel Plates with Angular-Biased Channels

Synkera Technologies, Inc., Longmont, CO

 

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING 

  1. An Analysis Process Execution Language and Execution Engine for High Energy Physics

FiveSight Technologies, Inc., Chicago, IL 

  1. OpenAFS Client Performance Analysis

Sine Nomine Associates, Ashburn, VA 

 

HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS 

  1. Ultra-High-Speed Optical Data Packet Switching

Broadata Communications, Inc., Torrance, CA 

  1. Grid Network Session Processing and Forwarding Engine

Open Solutions GP, Fremont, CA 

  1. 100Gb/s-1Tb/s Data Communications, Via Cost-Effective Transceivers Based on Monolithic Integration of WDM Lasers and Photodetectors with Ultra-Compact Wavelength Mux/Demux

Optonet, Inc., Wheeling, IL 

  1. SAMTP (SONET Application Memory Transport)

Pentum Group, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 

  1. Automatic Compilation of Firewall and Intrusion Detection Rules for High-Speed Network Processing Engines

Reservoir Labs, Inc., New York, NY 

  1. *STTR Project: Multi-Gigabit OS Bypass System for Grid Computing

SeaFire Micros, Inc., Beverly, MA

 

SCALABLE MIDDLEWARE AND GRID TECHNOLOGIES 

  1. STONE - Security Technologies for Open Networking Environments

SETECS Corporation, Rockville, MD 

  1. Distributed CCA Components and Grid Services for Scientific Computing

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 

  1. Grid4GL: Grid Technologies for the 4th Generation Languages

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 

  1. *STTR Project: Chromium RenderServer: Remote Rendering and Visualization Servers Using Distributed Memory Parallel Clusters

Tungsten Graphics, Woodbury, CT

 

TECHNOLOGY FOR SOFTWARE LIBRARIES 

  1. A Net-Aware Development, Support, and Maintenance Environment for DOE Numerical Libraries

Numerica 21 Incorporated, Downers Grove, IL

 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS SOFTWARE AND DATA MANAGEMENT 

  1. Innovative Cluster Interconnect Technology

Dunti, LLC, Austin, TX 

  1. Low Cost, Open Grid Services Architecture Storage System

Scientific Data Systems, Las Cruces, NM 

  1. An Abstract Job Handling Grid Service for Dataset Analysis

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 

  1. Fast Cost-Effective Cluster Interconnect

Znovation, LLC, Austin, TX

 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS ELECTRONICS DESIGN AND FABRICATION 

  1. DAQ Express: A High-Bandwidth Data Acquisition Systems for Next Generation Detectors

Blue Sky Electronics, LLC, Houston, TX 

  1. *STTR Project: Fast, Flexible Real-Time Decision Processor for Triggering Nuclear/High Energy Experiments and Real-Time Analysis of Radar, Medical and Security Images

Northern Microdesign, Inc., Ames, IA

 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY 

  1. Coaxial Energetic Ion Depostition of Superconducting Coatings on Copper RF Cavities for Particle Accelerators

Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation, San Leandro, CA 

  1. Compact Surface Plasma Source for Intense Beam of Hydrogen Negative Ion Production

Brookhaven Technology Group, Inc., East Setauket, NY 

  1. Optimization of Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Charge-Breeder Ions

FAR-TECH, Inc., San Diego, CA 

  1. Development of a Methodology for Analyzing Performance and Radiological Impact of Strippers and Mass Separators

I. C. Gomes Consulting and Investment, Inc., Naperville, IL 

  1. Improved ECR Charge Breeder for Rare Ion Species

Scientific Solutions, San Diego, CA 

  1. SPECS: Small Particle Electron Cooling Simulations

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 

  1. Wavelength Tunable (700 to 850nm) Mode-Locked Lasers, with Pulse Repetition Rate Between 0.5 and 3 GHZ, and Average Output Power Greater Than 10W

Vivaray Solutions, Inc., San Jose, CA

 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS DETECTORS, INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES 

  1. Novel Silica Aerogel Panels as Radiators for Cherenkov Detectors

Aspen Aerogels, Inc., Marlborough, MA 

  1. Purification System for Large Quantities of Noble Gas

Constellation Technology Corporation, Largo, FL 

  1. CdZnTe Detector Advancement Through Defect Reduction

Fermionics Corporation, Simi Valley, CA 

  1. Single Crystal Molybdates for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments

Integrated Photonics, Inc., Hillsborough, NJ 

  1. APD Injected Vacuum Photomultiplier

NanoSciences Corporation, Oxford, CT 

  1. Hybrid Multianode Photomultiplier Tube

Physical Optics, Photonic Systems Division, Torrance, CA 

  1. Novel Scintillator for Nuclear Physics Studies

Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA 

  1. A Device to Measure Low Levels of Radioactive Contaminants in Ultra-Clean Materials

Reeves & Sons, LLC, Pasco, WA 

  1. A Method for Electroforming Copper with Ultra-Low Levels of Radioactivity

Reeves & Sons, LLC, Pasco, WA 

  1. Sensitive SQUID-Based Detectors of the Magnetization of Polarized Nuclei

STAR Cryoelectronics, Santa Fe, NM 

  1. High Performance Algorithm for Signal Decomposition in Gamma Ray Detectors

Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 

  1. Ultra-Low Background Alpha Activity Counter

X-Ray Instrumentation Associates, Newark, CA

 

TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT THE NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM 

  1. An Efficient and Practical Method for New Bright Scintillator Searching

Boston Applied Technologies, Woburn, MA

  1. Maintenance-Free Smart Power Source

Boston Applied Technologies, Woburn, MA 

  1. *STTR Project: Ultra-Trace Molecular Detection Instrumentation Based on Aerosol Nucleation with Rapid Preconcentration and Separation

InnovaTek, Inc., Richland, WA 

  1. *STTR Project: Novel Photocatalytic Energy Converter for Nuclear Safeguards Applications

Konarka Technologies, Inc., Lowell, MA

 

TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND SUPPORT NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION AGREEMENTS 

  1. *STTR Project: Fully Integrated Optical Micro Gyroscope

Elsicon, Inc., Newark, DE 

  1. High-Pulse-Rate Sources for Active Imaging Systems

Q-Peak, Inc., Bedford, MA 

  1. Compact, Low-Cost, Phased Array Antennas for Unmanned Air Vehicles

XCom Wireless, Inc., Signal Hill, CA

 

RESEARCH TO SUPPORT GLOBAL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION MONITORING

  1. Robust Remote Seismic Station

Geotech Instruments, LLC, Dallas, TX 

  1. RASA Prognostics from State of Health (SOH) Modeling

Quantum Technology Services, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL 

  1. Low-Level Radioactive Xenon Monitoring by Phoswich Detector System

X-Ray Instrumentation Associates, Newark, CA

 

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY 

  1. Development of Soft-Ionization for Particulate Organic Detection with the Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA

  1. *STTR Project: A Compact, In-Situ Instrument for Organic Acids

Aerosol Dynamics, Inc., Berkeley, CA 

  1. Optical Instrument to Measure Cloud Drops with Varying Concentration

MetroLaser, Inc., Irvine, CA 

  1. Ultra-Sensitive, Compact Mid-Infrared Spectrometer for Airborne and Ground-Based Atmospheric Monitoring

NovaWave Technologies, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA 

  1. Real-Time Holographic Water-Drop-Size Measurement System

Physical Optics Corporation, Electro-Optics & Holography Division, Torrance, CA 

  1. A Rugged, Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer for Highly Sensitive Trace Gas Measurements in Troposphere

Physical Sciences, Inc., Andover, MA 

  1. Widely Tunable External Cavity Quantum Cascade Diode Laser for Multiple Trace Species Measurements

Southwest Sciences, Inc., Santa Fe, NM 

  1. A New Instrument for Reliable Airborne Measurements of Cloud Liquid Water Content and Drop Size Distribution

SPEC, Inc., Boulder, CO 

  1. *STTR Project: Optical “Nose” for Rapid, Part-Per-Trillion Trace Gas Detection

Vescent Photonics, Denver, CO

 

CARBON CYCLE MEASUREMENTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE BIOSPHERE 

  1. Compact, Autonomous 13CO2 Flux Monitor Using Pulsed Difference Frequency

Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA 

  1. Sonde Deployable Carbon Dioxide Sensor

Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA 

  1. Long-Term, Autonomous Measurement of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Using an Ormosil Nanocomposite-Based Optical Sensor

InnoSense, LLC, Lomita, CA 

  1. High Availability Unmanned Aerial Platform for Carbon Cycle Measurements

KalScott Engineering, Inc., Topeka, KS 

  1. Compact, Low Cost CO2 Isotope Ratiometer

NovaWave Technologies, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA 

  1. A New Low-Power MEMS Sensor for Atmospheric CO2 Measurements

Seacoast Science, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

 

BIOLOGICAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 

  1. Large-Scale Microalgae Cultivation in Agricultural Wastewaters for Biofixation of CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Abatement

Kent Sea Tech Corp, San Diego, CA 

  1. Microalgae Biofixation of CO2 and Fertilizer Production for Greenhouse Gas Abatement

SeaAg, Inc., Vero Beach, FL 

  1. A Soil Probe for In-Situ Near Infrared Spectroscopic Measurement of Soil Carbon

Veris Technologies, Inc., Salina, KS 

  1. Plant and Soil Sequestration of Carbon

Zimmerman Associates, Inc. (ZAI), Fairfax, VA

 

MEDICAL SCIENCES 

  1. Novel Metal Ion Based Estrogen Mimics for Molecular Imaging

BioFlexis, LLC, Lakewood, OH 

  1. Cervical SPECT Camera for Parathyroid Imaging

Gamma Medica, Inc., Northridge, CA 

  1. Discovery of Dense Ce Activated Scintillators for SPECT and PET by High Throughput Screening Method

LS Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA 

  1. Novel Micro-Nanoprobes and Detection Method for Biomedical Applications

MicroCosm, Inc., Columbia, MD 

  1. A Compact Fast PMT for TOF PET Imaging

NanoSciences Corporation, Oxford, CT 

<