U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM AND
SMALL BUSINESS
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM
FY 2004 PHASE I - AWARDS BY TOPIC
TOPIC:
FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Project
Alme and Associates
A High Intensity Neutron Source for
P. O. Box 1388
the Detection of Unexploded Ordnance
Los Alamos,
Research Institution: Los Alamos
National Laboratory
Detection and removal of unexploded ordnance is a key task in the decommissioning of military bases and their conversion to civilian use, as well as the clearing of landmines from former combat areas. We propose to cut the cost of these efforts by providing a neutron source that can directly identify high explosives in unexploded ordnance.
STTR Project
Alme and Associates
A Modular Neutron Source for the
P. O. Box 1388
Detection of Shielded Highly Enriched
Los Alamos,
Research Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Detection of highly enriched uranium in large shipping containers is one of the
most daunting security problems facing the United States.
This project will develop a neutron source capable of detecting the
uranium through active nuclear assay.
Calabazas Creek Research Improved Magnetron Injection Guns
20937 Comer
Drive
for Gyrotrons
Saratoga, CA 95070-3753
This project will reduce or eliminate performance degradation in high power gyrotons and gyroklystrons caused by non-uniform emission from electron guns. Maintenance of performance levels will reduce costs and risk, and enable gyroton and gyroklystron use in fusion research, high energy accelerators, defense applications, and industrial heating systems.
HY-Tech
Research Corporation Novel, Laser-Based Probe for
104
Centre Court
Measuring Neutral Densities in
Radford
Radford,
This project will develop a laser-based sensor for
application to fusion energy systems and the emerging technology of plasma
coatings on engine components for increased energy efficiency and reliability.
HyperV Technologies Corp. A 200 km/s Plasma Accelerator for
11316
Smoke Rise Court
Magneto-Intertial Fusion and for
Fairfax
This project will develop a high-velocity plasma jet technology to evaluate the cost and efficiency of plasma-jet-driven magneto-inertial fusion, used in the production of fusion energy.
Lodestar Research Corporation
Integrative Predictive Models for
2400 Central Avenue, P-5
ICRF-Edge Plasma Interactions
Boulder,
Research Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This project will develop a numerical model, describing the interaction of
intense radiofrequency waves with the edge of a tokamak fusion reactor, for the
optimization of heating in future burning plasma experiments such as ITER.
MSNW Inductive Plasma Accelerator
16436 SE
39th Place
Bellevue,
This project will design and build a high-velocity plasma
accelerator with application to several fusion devices. These include innovative
high energy density approaches as well as the international tokamak experimental
reactor, ITER.
NOVA Photonics, Inc. Rapidly Tunable, High Throughput
One Oak
Place
Spectral
Filter for Plasma
Princeton,
This project will develop a tunable filter to address the
need for more sensitive and accurate characterization of plasma used in fusion
energy systems. The tunable filter
should enhance the development of fusion as a viable energy source.
STTR Project
NPL Associates, Inc. A Dipole Assisted IEC Neutron Source
912 West Armory Avenue
Champaign
,
Research Institution: University of Illinois
Electrostatic fusion confinement suffers from low efficiencies and short
particle confinement times. A new
hybrid plasma confinement concept is proposed that may be developed as a
commercial neutron source and an enhancement of electrostatic reactors.
7 Deer
Park Drive
Measurement of Plasmas Using
Monmouth
This project will improve measurement of the magnetic field
inside hot plasmas. The measurement
improvements should enhance research to promote the viability of nuclear fusion
as an ecologically attractive source of electric power.
Tech-X Corporation
FSML-Fusion Simulation Markup
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Language
for Interoperability of
Suite A Data and Analysis Tools
Boulder,
This project will develop software tools that will
facilitate integrated scientific modeling, collaborative data analysis, and
archiving of fusion data. Additional
benefits include increased software reuse and data interoperability.
Tech-X Corporation Improving Between-Shot Fusion
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Data
Analysis with Parallel
Suite A
Structures
Boulder,
This project
will modify fusion data analysis software to increase its speed of operation,
and enhance magnetic fusion research.
TOPIC:
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS
Composite Technology Development, Inc.
Innovative, Low Cost
2600
Campus Drive
Radiation-Resistant Fusion Magnet
Suite D Insulation
Lafayette,
This project will develop high temperature,
radiation-resistant insulation systems for fusion and superconducting magnets.
The insulation systems should enable the design of more efficient fusion
devices, and ultimately lead to the development of new, efficient energy sources
for the Nation.
STTR Project
DDl
8260
Greensboro Drive
Joining Technologies for Fusion
Suite
600
Energy Systems
McLean,
Research
Institution: Edison
New
alloys are being developed for fusion energy systems that are more
environmentally acceptable than fission energy systems in use today. This
project will demonstrate advanced, solid-state and resistance joining
technologies that will enable the use of these alloys for fabricating structural
components in fusion reactors.
HyPerComp, Inc. Development of a Canonical
31255
Cedar Valley Drive
Approach to Liquid Metal MHD
Suite
327 Computations and Experiments
Westlake,
HyPerComp
is developing a pioneering liquid metal MHD code environment which has already
attracted significant interest in the nuclear fusion community in the design of
liquid metal heat transfer concepts.
Hyper Tech Research, Inc. Lower Cost Nb3Sn Internal-Tin
110 E.
Canal Street
Troy,
This
project will develop a reduced-cost niobium-tin superconductor wire for fusion
energy efforts.
Plasma Processes, Inc. Flowing Liquid Lithium Walls Using
4914
Moores Mill Road
Engineered Surfaces
Huntsville,
To
enable liquid wall fusion devices, control of the liquid metal is required.
This project will develop technology needed for controlling the flow of
liquid lithium, a liquid metal under high heat flux.
Shear Form Microstructural Refinement of
2805
Brothers Boulevard
Tantalum for Superconductor
College
Station,
This
project will demonstrate the superior performance of pure tantalum, when it is
highly refined and introduced into multi-filamentary superconductor wires.
The project also will provide the scale-up potential of a
materials-processing technology for high energy physics and fusion energy magnet
applications.
STTR Project
Specialty Materials, Inc.
Fabrication of Chemically Doped, High
1449 Middlesex Street
Upper Critical Field Diboride
Lowell
,
Research Institution: Northwestern University
Improved superconducting magnesium diboride wires will be fabricated using a
chemical reaction process and metal casting.
This process is a spin-off of well-established processes developed for
military applications for boron fibers, and should lead to better methods for
diagnosing and treating cancer via improved MRI and radiation-therapy devices.
STTR Project
Starfire Industries, LLC
Advanced Plasma Gun Development for
1010
Urbana
,
Surface Flowing Liquid Metal PFCs
Research Institution: University of Illinois
This advanced plasma simulator will enhance near-term plasma-facing-component
development, while supporting long-term liquid surface heat removal.
These innovations are necessary for viable fusion power leading to
domestic energy independence.
TOPIC:
INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY
STTR Project
Advanced Magnet Laboratory, Inc.
Optimized Superconducting Quadrupole
2730 Kirby Avenue, NE
Arrays for Multiple Beam Transport
Building 5
Palm Bay
,
Research Institution: Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
This proposal will develop affordable superconducting magnets that are needed
for inertial fusion power production. Implementation
of this technology will enhance our standard of living, the quality of our
environment, and national security.
STTR Project
Advanced Magnetic and Cryogenic, LLC
Cryostat with Foil and MLI
P.O. Box 85
2210 N. Pewter Drive
Macungie,
Research Institution: Massachussetts Institute of
Technology
This project will combine low emissivity thermal insulation material with
conventional multi-layer insulation (MLI) to build cost-effective compact
cryostats for heavy ion fusion beam array transport and other more
general-purpose applications
STTR Project
Alameda
Applied Sciences Corporation
Pulsed Liquid Metal Ion Source
2235 Polvorosa Avenue
for Heavy Ion Fusion
Suite
230
San Leandro
,
Research Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Ions are pulled from molten metal by means of applied high voltage and
acceleration. This process provides
only a small number of ions per emission site, but they have extremely low
fluctuation. Through the use of
nanotechnology, the number of emissions will be increased, while low fluctuation
is retained, to obtain a high current beam over a small area.
The application of this technique will provide highly defined ion beams
for heavy ion fusion.
FAR-TECH, Inc.
Efficient 3D Plasma Ion Source
10350
Science Center Drive
Modeling with Adaptive Mesh
Building 14,
San Diego, CA
This project will develop an efficient, 3D computer
simulation program for plasma ion sources that are needed for fusion energy
research. By eliminating much trial
and error, the program should realize large cost savings, and find application
in National and commercial projects that require plasma-based ion sources, such
as ion plasma implantation.
STTR Project
First Point Scientific, Inc.
Ion Beam Drift Compression
5330
Derry Avenue
Technology for HCX
Suite J
Agoura
Hills,
Research
Institution: Lawrence
This project will lead to the experimental demonstration of
a key element of heavy ion fusion technology, the final compression of the ion
beam for interaction with the fusion target.
Its success will forward efforts to use heavy ion fusion to meet
long-term power needs.
STTR Project
NPL
Associates, Inc.
Computational Module for Charge
912 West
Armory Avenue
Exchange and Ion Stripping in HIB
Champaign
,
Research Institution: University of
Illinois
This project will develop a subroutine for a large-scale plasma (LSP) computer
code to calculate the charge exchange and ion stripping cross sections in heavy
ion beam (HIB) transport. This work
is done by data mining from experimental data, handbooks and calculation
results, and further numerical calculations for unsolved data.
TOPIC:
HIGH-FIELD SUPERCONDUCTOR AND SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES FOR
HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE COLLIDERS
Global Research and Development, Inc.
Ternary Nb-Ti-Ta Alloys for High
110 E.
Canal Street
Field 2
K Applications--Alloy
Troy,
This project will develop technology to improve the
workhorse alloy superconductor, niobium-tin.
This technology will allow low-cost upgrades to high energy particle
accelerators, before the introduction more expensive advanced materials.
Global Research and Development, Inc.
High Superconductor Fraction, High
110 E.
Canal Street
Engineering Critical Current Density
Troy,
Ultrasonic Wire Drawing
Ultrasonic wire drawing will be used in this project to
manufacture superconductors able to carry large currents in high magnetic
fields. These wires are intended for
building electromagnets able to generate very high magnetic fields for particle
colliders and other instruments used to study the sub-atomic and
atomic/molecular nature of matter.
INNOVARE, Inc.
Increase Piece Length and Reduce
7277 Park
Drive
Cost of
A15 Superconductor Wire by
Bath,
This project will develop technology to eliminate breaks in
advanced superconductor wire during production.
The technology should enable the development of a robust, cost effective,
commercial production system for advanced superconductors used in high energy
physics and fusion energy development.
MultiPhase Composites Moldable Ceramic Composites for
1130
Francis Street, #7012
High Field Magnet Applications
Longmont,
This project will develop moldable ceramic insulators to
provide shaped parts that require no complicated machining and reduce insulation
damage leading to costly repair. These
parts should reduce fabrication costs of high field magnets used in particle
accelerators, storage rings, and fusion devices
STTR Project
MUONS, Inc.
Hydrogen Cryostat for Muon Beam
552 N.
Batavia Avenue
Cooling
Batavia,
Research
Institution: Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
This project will develop technology to shrink muon beams
in accelerators needed to study the fundamental forces of nature.
The technology will take advantage of the latest advances in
high-temperature superconducting magnets and pressurized high-gradient RF
cavities.
Supergenics, LLC
Improved Fin Designs to Reduce
1233 Tree
Bay Lane
Deffective in Internal-Tin Nb3Sn
Sarasota,
In order to maintain the nation’s technical leadership in
high energy physics it is necessary to have an active part in the development
and construction of the future generation of particle accelerators.
To do this, high field superconducting magnets are required and this
project is designed to make high quality conductors at relatively low cost to be
used in these magnets. Similar
conductors can also be used in fusion devices that will be one of the long-term
answers to the global energy problems.
TOPIC:
ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS
Advanced Energy Systems, Inc. Exploration of Long-Life Polarized
TOPIC:
RADIO FREQUENCY ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS AND
COLLIDERS
27
Industrial Boulevard
Electron Sources
Unit E
Medford,
This project will develop technology to enhance the
development of a long-life source that delivers polarized electrons at low
emittance. The technology would
benefit the design of all electron sources, and may result in a simplification
and cost improvement of linear collider damping systems.
Boston
Applied
Technologies
Tm-Doped Ceramic Laser for Laser
150-H New
Woburn,
The ceramic laser technology development in this program
will not only serve Department of Energy’s need, but also be in the Nation’s
best interest. It will put the
Euclid
5900
Harper Road, #102
Loaded
Accelerating Structure
Solon,
This project will develop technology to enhance microwave
devices used in particle acceleration. The
technology will eliminate their need for mechanical tuning and should permit
their manufacture at reduced cost.
Euclid
TechLabs, LLC
Low Loss Ferroelectric Material
5900
Harper Road, #102
Development for Accelerator
Solon,
This project will develop “smart” material for use in
advanced and conventional particle accelerators.
Applications include military and commercial electronics, such as
wireless communications and microwave radar.
FAR-TECH, Inc. High Precision Integrated
10350
Science Center Drive
Beam-Position, Emittance, and
Building
14, Suite
150 Third-Moment Monitor
San Diego,
This project will develop a system of instruments for
monitoring the beam in accelerators used in research and medicine.
The system would permit more precise and cost-effective control of
accelerators for applications ranging from high-energy physics to cancer
treatment.
STTR Project
FutureTek USA Corp. Hybrid Nanocrystalline Permanent
2705 Far
Hills
Avenue
Magnets for Beam Focusing in High
Suite
2
Energy Accelerators
Dayton,
Research
Institution: University
of
A new class of hybrid nanocrystalline permanent magnets
will be studied and synthesized in the proposed research project.
These new magnets will have significantly improved thermal stability and
higher operating temperature leading to better, lighter, smaller, and cheaper
electromagnetic machines and devices.
G. H. Gillespie Associates, Inc. Open Architecture Software
P.O. Box
2961 Integration System for Particle Beam
Del
This project will develop advanced software tools to
improve the productivity of workers in organizations using particle beams, such
as, research laboratories, medical institutes, semiconductor manufacturers, and
nano-technology centers.
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc.
Laser Systems Development for the
4699 Nautilus Court
Unit 205
Photoinjector
Boulder,
This project will develop advanced laser technologies that
are critical for the implementation of new-generation light-source scientific facilities. These facilities will make possible
revolutionary advances in physical, biological, and biomedical research.
The laser technology itself has other science and industrial uses.
MUONS, Inc.
Ionization Cooling Using Parametric
552 N.
Batavia Avenue
Resonances
Batavia,
This project will combine two previously unrelated
accelerator techniques to enable an affordable muon collider at the energy
frontier.
MUONS, Inc.
Gaseous H2 Absorber for
Muon
552 N.
Batavia Avenue
Beam
Cooling
Batavia,
New particle accelerators, needed to study the fundamental
forces of nature, require a technique to shrink muon beams before acceleration.
This project will develop dense hydrogen gas to reduce the beam size and
lower costs.
STTR Project
Omega-P, Inc.
RF Gun with High-Current-Density
199
Whitney Avenue
Field
Emission Cathode
New
Haven,
Research Institution: Florida
This project will develop a rugged, high-current cathode to
replace fragile cathodes of limited lifetime in a wide range of vacuum
electronics devices. Benefits
include saving cathode heater power and increasing device lifetime.
Particle Beam Lasers, Inc.
Feasibility Study of a Compact
18925
Dearborn Street
Gas-Filled Storage Ring for 6-D
Northridge,
This project
will develop a compact, magnetic particle storage ring, filled with compressed
gas, for the cooling of muon and ion beams.
The storage ring should find use at national accelerator sites and
commercial ion laser facilities.
STTR Project
Pavilion Technologies, Inc.
Self-Validating Knowledge-Guided On-Line
10415 Morado Circle
Bldg # 3
Optics and Orbit in an Electron Storage Ring
Suite
100
Using a Combined Neural Network and
Austin
,
Research Institution: SLAC, Stanford University
This project will strengthen expert-system controls, in both software algorithms
and hardware, for process industry applications.
The combination of accelerator physicists, in a basic research national
laboratory, with the practical knowledge and experience of the commercial,
control-systems sector will lead to new solutions for both high-energy physics
and the process industry.
Radia Technologies
An Inexpensive High-Current
15547
Horseshoe Street
Betatron
Using Fixed-Field
Moreno
Valley,
New Low-Loss Magnetic Materials
This project will use modern advances in physics and
engineering to make a high-power, high-energy electron source, which is compact
and inexpensive, for mail sterilization, cancer treatment, medical device
sterilization and food irradiation.
STI Optronics, Inc.
Advanced Gas Jet Nozzle for Laser
2755
Northup Way
Bellevue,
The advanced gas jet nozzle is important for scaling laser
Tech-X Corporation
Rapid 3-D Simulation of a
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Bunch-Length Diagnostic for Laser
Suite A
Boulder,
Frequencies
Future generation high-energy particle accelerators, used
to study the fundamental nature of matter, will likely include plasma-based
components that produce extremely short particle beams.
Existing software is being enhanced to enable the measurement of these
ultra-short electron beams
Tech-X Corporation
Advanced 3D Photocathode
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Modeling
and Simulations
Suite A
Boulder,
This project will develop software to improve modeling and
design of electron sources.
TechSource, Inc.
Electron Cloud Diagnostic for
P.O. Box
31057
Quadrupole Magnets
Santa Fe,
This project undertakes the development of a conceptual
design for electron diagnostics to be used in quadrupole magnets at
high-intensity proton and positron rings to study electron cloud formation and
trapping.
Black Laboratories, LLC
Production
of Seamless
116 Villa
Road
Superconducting Radio Frequency
Newport
News,
Niobium
Superconducting radio frequency cavities, used in high
energy physics accelerators, are produced with costly, complex welding methods
that are detrimental to optimum performance.
This program will develop an improved welding method to enable
cost-effective production of seamless high performance accelerators.
Calabazas Creek Research
Development of a 200 MHz,
20937
Comer Drive
Multiple
Beam Klystron
Saratoga, CA
This project will develop technology to provide support,
having increased efficiency and reduced size and cost, for proton drift tube
linacs used in high energy accelerators and colliders.
The technology will lead to reduced linac cost and improved performance.
Calabazas
20937
Comer Drive
an
Inverted Magnetron Injection Gun
Saratoga, CA
This project will develop an advanced microwave amplifier
for use in high-energy accelerators. The
concepts will also be useful in amplifiers for fusion, radar, and scientific
instrumentation.
Diversified Technologies, Inc.
Reentrant 500 k V Connection for
35
Wiggins Avenue
Inverted
Sheet Beam Klystron
Bedford,
This effort will develop an advanced, high voltage
connection for use in the Next Generation Linear Collider. The technology will
support affordable accelerator systems for cancer therapy, X-ray inspection
systems, and food/mail sterilization.
Haimson Research Corporation
Development
of a High Efficiency
3350
Scott Boulevard
Output
Circuit for a Spatial
Building 60
Modulation High Power Microwave
Santa
Clara,
The successful development of a high-efficiency, high-power
microwave amplifier capable of operating at short wavelengths would represent a
significant advance in radio frequency source technology, and would have a
positive impact on linear collider construction and operating budgets.
Haimson Research Corporation Development of a High Gain, High
3350
Scott Boulevard
Power
Traveling Wave Relativistic
Building 60
Klystron
Santa
Clara,
CA
This
project strives to achieve two orders of magnitude reduction of the input power
to a high power klystron amplifier, without loss of stability or efficiency
(output power). This would represent a significant advance in radio frequency
source technology and would have a positive impact on linear collider
construction and operation budgets.
MacroMetalics, Division of Elcon
Development
and Testing of a
1009
Timothy Drive
Demountable Sheet Electron Beam
San Jose,
This project will develop a beam analyzer to enhance the
performance of particle colliders used in high energy physics.
Omega-P, Inc. High-Power Ferroelectric Switch for
199
Whitney Avenue
an
X-Band RF Pulse Compressor
New Haven,
CT
Development of an electrically-controlled, high-power
microwave switch is to be carried out which has the potential for increasing
efficiency and affording new flexibility in design for the next linear collider.
Successful completion of this project would lead