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 TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE NEXT-GENERATION ELECTRON-POSITRON LINEAR COLLIDER
Epion Corporation
Improving the Performance of High
STTR Project
TOPIC:
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTORS
Applied Plastics Technology,
Inc.
Advanced Fluoropolymer Vessels
45 Broad
Common Road
for
Ultra-Clean Ionization and
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 to lower construction
and operating costs for this research accelerator.
Omega-P, Inc.
120 MW, 800 MHz Magnicon for a
199
Whitney Avenue
Future
Muon Collider
New Haven,
CT
Research at future high-energy physics frontiers will
require accelerators of energy higher than those that can be built using present
technology. This project is to
develop radio frequency amplifiers to be used in a future muon collider, to help
keep U.S. scientists at the forefront of this basic scientific frontier.
Omega-P, Inc.
Quasi-Optical 3-dB Hybrid for
199
Whitney Avenue
Future
High-Energy Accelerators
New Haven,
This project will develop all-metal, quasi-optical devices
that are capable of performing important functions for control of high-power
microwaves in accelerators and in other high power microwave systems which
cannot be controlled using available technology.
OptiSwitch Technology Corporation
Light Activated Solid-State Switch
6355
Nancy Ridge Drive
for
Hydrogen Thyratron
San Diego,
Highly-reliable, cost effective and compact switches are
not available for many high power systems in use by the Department of Energy and
Department of Defense. This project
will lead to the development of a high-power, highly-reliable and cost-effective
switch that is triggered by a semiconductor laser.
Once developed, this switch will allow for the commercialization of many
high power systems that are hindered by unreliable and costly switches.
Sci-Eng Solutions Advanced Capacitance Development
3304
Laketown Drive
for
Marxed Modulators
Columbia, MO
Sci-Eng Solution, LLC, will develop advanced capacitors and
validate their ability to enhance power systems requisite to the
Tech-X Corporation
Tools for Studying Multipactor in
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Dielectric Waveguide Structures
Suite A
Boulder,
This
work will enable researchers to study ways to improve high-power dielectric rf
structures.
37
Manning Road
Gradient
RF Structures by Surface
Billerica,
This project will apply nanotechnology for smoothing and
cleaning to high voltage electrodes used in advanced particle accelerators. The
nanotechnology will allow stronger acceleration fields for high-energy particle
accelerators with reduced size and increased reliability.
Omega-P, Inc.
Surface Films to Suppress Field Emission
199 Whitney Avenue
in High-Power Microwave Components
New Haven,
Research Institution: University
This project will develop thin-film coatings on high-power microwave components
for a future high-energy particle accelerator.
Microwave components that are coated should operate at higher power
levels than uncoated components, thus allowing a more compact and less expensive
accelerator to be designed and built.
PMD Scientific, Inc.
High Resolution Seismometer
105F
Bloomfield,
This project will develop a very sensitive seismic sensor
based on unique technology, and be capable of working in very strong magnetic
fields, and will help to achieve a sub-nanometer stability of the final focusing
lenses in the Linear Collider. Future
models will have public benefit advancing knowledge of earthquake and structural
behavior.
STI Optronics, Inc.
Linearized Wigglers for Damping
2755
Northup Way
Rings
Bellevue,
Next generation high-energy colliders, such as the Next
Linear Collider, use special magnet arrays, called wigglers, to improve the
characteristics of the electron beam. This
project will develop a linearized wiggler that solves critical problems for this
application and, at the same time, reduces wiggler manufacturing costs.
Square One Systems Design
An Automated Magnet Positioning
615 East
Hansen Street
System
for Use in the Next Linear
P.O. Box
2772
Collider
Jackson,
This project will develop a heavy-duty support and
adjustment system designed to meet the needs of the next linear collider.
This fully automated system is capable of positioning very large objects
such as electromagnets with ultra-fine precision.
P.O. Box
45
Scintillation Detectors
Bristol, RI
This project will develop plastic vessels for sensitive
particle detection. This technology
should find use in national security equipment and enhance chemical handling,
semiconductor processing, medical equipment and industries where extremely high
material purity is needed.
STTR Project
Digital Optics Corporation
Thinner Silicon Detectors and
9815
David Taylor Drive
Novel Interconnections for Robust
Charlotte,
Research Institution: MCNC-RDI
This project will improve manufacturing processes that will
increase the capability and efficiency of detectors for future high energy
physics experiments.
Synkera Technologies, Inc.
Ceramic Microchannel Plates with
2021
Miller Drive
Angular-Biased Channels
Suite B
Longmont,
CO
The proposed technology has a potential to overcome the
limitations of the currently used image amplifiers and promote a new generation
of inexpensive radiation detectors and imaging devices with advanced performance
needed in many applications, including counter-terrorism and fundamental
research in high energy and nuclear physics.
TOPIC:
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING
FiveSight Technologies, Inc.
An Analysis Process Execution
213 North
Morgan Street
Language and Execution Engine for
Chicago, IL
60607
High
Energy Physics
This project will develop technology for scientific process
management by combining research in the fields of business process management,
Web services, and distributed Grid computing.
Sine Nomine Associates
Open AFS Client Performance
Storage and manipulation of very large amounts of data in high-energy physics experiments and in large companies, is negatively affected by performance problems with the software involved. Targeted experiments and subsequent performance enhancements will resolve these problems ensuring that the existing infrastructures will be able to sustain the needs of all users.
TOPIC:
HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS
Broadata Communications, Inc.
Ultra-High-Speed Optical Data
2545 West
237th Street
Packet
Switching
Suite K
This project will develop an ultra-high-speed network processor platform based upon patented technology enabling dramatically increased transmission speeds. Applications include ultra-high-speed optical data packet switching.
Open Solutions GP
Grid Network Session Processing
Current data transport technology cannot match the performance of rapidly-growing network capacity planned for scientific applications. This project provides an enabling technology to transport, retrieve, and store data at Grid network speeds equal to or exceeding 10 Gb/s.
Optonet, Inc.
100Gb/s-1Tb/s Data Communications,
and Photodetectors
Compact Wavelength Mux/Demux
Ultra-high-speed data communication networks require compact, 100Gb/s, fiber-optic transceivers at low cost. This project will develop technology capable of directly integrating lasers and photodectectors with an ultra-compact optical spectrometer on a semiconductor chip to realize these high-data-rate transceivers.
Pentum Group, Inc.
SAMTP (SONET Application
111 W. El Camino Real, #109
Memory Transport)
This project will develop a new data transfer protocol to
provide low cost, higher speed, and interactive networking between computers
connected through existing long-distance fiber optic links.
The public will benefit through improved quality of video conferencing,
technology collaborations, scientific and engineering simulations, computer
gaming and more efficient use of the telecommunications infrastructure.
Reservoir Labs, Inc.
Automatic Compilation of Firewall
632 Broadway
and Intrusion Detection Rules for
The project supports the simple construction and up-to-date maintenance of ultra-high-speed secure computer networks. The proposed technology enables effective use of advanced networking hardware, automating tasks that have traditionally involved extensive human effort.
SeaFire Micros, Inc.
Multi-Gigabit OS Bypass System
39
Dodge Street, #319
for
Grid Computing
Beverly,
This project will investigate a novel system architecture to address system delays within next-generation, network-scalable supercomputers. Its feasibility will be determined through simulation and high speed network tests.
TOPIC:
SCALABLE MIDDLEWARE AND GRID TECHNOLOGIES
SETECS - Security Technologies for
STONE - Security Technologies for
Open Networking Environments
Open Networking Environments
This project will develop a strong security system for Internet Web applications to eliminate the risk of hackers, intruders, malicious insiders, information and identity theft, and operation disruption. The system should find use in commercial arenas and contribute to National security by providing strong protection of Internet data and transactions.
Tech-X Corporation
Distributed CCA Components and
5621 Arapahoe Avenue
Grid Services for Scientific
Suite A
Computing
This project will develop software tools to facilitate large-scale computer simulations of physical processes in a thermonuclear reactor.
Tech-X Corporation
Grid4GL: Grid Technologies for the
5621 Arapahoe Avenue
4th Generation Languages
Suite A
This project will develop software tools to merge powerful, scientific data analysis tools with grid technologies.
STTR Project
Tungsten Graphics Chromium RenderServer: Remote
Woodbury,
Clusters
Research Institution: Lawrence
Livermore
National Laboratory
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGY FOR SOFTWARE LIBRARIES
Numerica 21 Incorporated
A Net-Aware Development, Support,
Suite 220
DOE Numerical Libraries
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS SOFTWARE AND DATA MANAGEMENT
Dunti, LLC
Innovative Cluster Interconnect
1250
Capitol of Texas Highway
Technology
Austin,
Scientific computations need high performance super computers at low cost. This project will develop technology that enables an interconnect mechanism between computers that will result in low cost, high performance cluster systems for these scientific computations.
Scientific Data Systems
Low Cost, Open Grid Services
This project will enhance low cost, high capacity, ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)-based disk storage systems for use as Open-Grid-Services-Architecture-compliant data storage systems. If successful, the system will allow more efficient sharing of very large data sets from data-intensive scientific experiments.
Tech-X Corporation
An Abstract Job Handling Grid
5621 Arapahoe Avenue
Service for Dataset Analysis
Suite A
This project will develop software tools to enable remote data access. Remote access of data will allow analysis of large data sets at high-performance computing sites worldwide.
Znovation, LLC
Fast Cost-Effective Cluster
11003 Centennial Trail
Interconnect
This project will develop fast, cost effective, commodity computers and cluster interconnects. The enhanced computers and interconnects will allow the use of supercomputers for improved modeling and computing capacity in scientific research and private industry.
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS ELECTRONICS DESIGN AND FABRICATION
Blue Sky Electronics, LLC
DAQ Express: A High-Bandwidth
401 Studewood
Data Acquisition Systems for Next
This project will develop a system that can accommodate the increased rates of data in a cost-effective manner, while remaining flexible enough to be used in many different data acquisition systems.
STTR Project
Northern Microdesign, Inc
Fast, Flexible Real-Time Decision
533 193 Street
Processor for
Triggering Nuclear/
Ames,
Time Analysis of Radar, Medical
and Security Images
This project will develop a hardware programmed signal processor architecture to allow demanding nuclear and high energy physics instrumentation problems in real-time and at very low cost. The processor hardware will enable portable and reduced cost image and signal processing in commercial and government applications.
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY
Suite 230
Copper RF Cavities for Particle
This project will develop technology to enhance high-energy particle accelerators used in fundamental physics research. The enhanced accelerators will achieve higher energy at lower cost than present designs.
Brookhaven Technology Group, Inc.
Compact Surface
Plasma Source for
East
This project will develop a high efficiency, negative ion source for compact surface plasma. The enhanced source will improve productivity of costly, high-energy accelerators, used in fundamental research and applied science for industry, medicine and homeland security.
FAR-TECH, Inc.
Optimization of
Building 14,
This project will produce a comprehensive set of numerical simulation tools for optimizing sources of radioactive ions. Optimizing these radioactive ion sources should lead to enhanced ion characterization and optimization, efforts that are important for nuclear physics studies and commercial applications, such as advanced materials processing.
I. C. Gomes Consulting and
Development of a Methodology for
Investment, Inc.
Analyzing Performance and
1728 Killdeer Drive
Radiological Impact of Strippers and
The heavy ions interactions with magnets, strippers, collimators, fragmentation targets, and mass separators have important impact on the design of a facility such as Rare Isotope Accelerator. This project is for implementing charged particle transport in electromagnetic field into the MCNPX Monte Carlo transport code. This implementation will allow heavy charged particle transport in both, material medium and in electromagnetic field. The final product has direct application to RIA (Rare Isotope Accelerator) design and also in the medical and aerospace areas.
Scientific Solutions
Improved ECR Charge Breeder for
This project will develop an improved device for converting sputtered ion species into beam ions for nuclear physics research.
Tech-X Corporation
SPECS: Small Particle
Electron
Suite A
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory is colliding gold ions to create conditions similar to those that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. This project will develop a 3D simulation code to enhance an electron cooling section in this premier facility.
Vivaray Solutions, Inc.
Wavelength Tunable (700 to 850nm)
389 Kincora Court
Mode-Locked Lasers, with Pulse
GHZ, and Average Output Power
Greater Than 10W
This project will develop a laser that is tunable at high powers. Applications include medicine, industry, and the armed forces.
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS DETECTORS, INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES
Aspen Aerogels, Inc.
Novel Silica Aerogel Panels as
This project will enhance the refractive index of Cherenkov detectors by using fewer aerogel panels with increased size and thickness. Enhancing the refractive index will improve detector particle discrimination and hopefully lead to new discoveries in particle physics.
Constellation Technology Corporation
Purification System
for Large
This project will develop technology for a line of robust, highly efficient, inexpensive devices to purify and monitor large quantities of noble gases. The technology will increase the use of highly sensitive nuclear radiation detectors that contain noble gases, and should find application in research related to nuclear security monitoring systems and in industrial production of super-pure materials.
Fermionics Corporation
CdZnTe Detector Advancement
This project will develop technology to enhance the understanding of cadmium-zinc-telluride, the material of choice for producing state-of-the-art, room-temperature gamma-ray detectors and arrays. These detectors and arrays should find use in medical applications, non-proliferation, security inspection, and industrial processing control.
Integrated Photonics, Inc.
Single Crystal Molybdates for
This project will develop technology to study neutrinos, the most prolific of all elementary particles. The technology should find use in neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments to increase knowledge of neutrino mass and enhance our understanding of the birth and evolution of the universe.
NanoSciences Corporation APD Injected Vacuum
This project will develop a high-speed photodetector to advance the performance of noninvasive PET scanners that permit researchers to look inside the body and observe biology in action. The improved scanner should allow significant advances in medical imaging.
Physical Optics,
Hybrid Multianode Photomultiplier
Photonic Systems Division
Tube
Building 100
This project will develop a multi-channel light detector for particle accelerations. The inexpensive detector will be highly sensitive and reliable, and have low crosstalk between channels, which is important in high energy physics. Besides nuclear physics, the detector can be used in nuclear medical imaging and in military imaging ladars.
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
Novel Scintillator for Nuclear
44 Hunt Street
Physics Studies
This project will develop technology that will be useful in nuclear physics studies and other scientific studies such as high energy physics research, space research, and diffraction. Commercial applications include oil exploration, medical imaging, and nuclear non-proliferation.
Reeves & Sons, LLC
A Device to Measure Low Levels of
This project will build an ultra-sensitive radiation detector that will enable cost-effective materials-screening at extremely low levels of radioactivity. These materials are needed by scientists searching for rare exotic particles used to make memory chips for enhanced computer operation
Reeves & Sons, LLC
A Method for Electroforming
2207 North Road 88
Copper with Ultra-Low Levels of
This project will produce ultra-high-purity copper for scientific experiments in the search for extremely rare events, such as double beta decay. The copper produced may have enhanced properties relative to normal copper.
STAR Cryoelectronics
Sensitive SQUID-Based Detectors of
25 Bisbee
Ct.
the Magnetization of Polarized
Suite A
Nuclei
This project will develop a highly sensitive integrated detector, based on superconducting thin films. The detector will have improved manufacturability, and should find use in advanced, magnetic detection systems for nuclear physics research and commercial applications like biomedical imaging.
Tech-X Corporation
High Performance Algorithm for
Suite A
Ray Detectors
This project will develop software to enable the development of high-resolution gamma ray detectors for nuclear physics and nuclear medicine.
X-Ray Instrumentation Associates
Ultra-Low Background Alpha
8450 Central Avenue
Activity Counter
This project will use digital signal processing techniques to increase the sensitivity of alpha particle detectors 1000 times. These detectors will be used to characterize new, ultra-low, alpha-particle-emitting materials for use in applications that are disrupted by alpha particles from natural radioactivity, such as sensitive nuclear physics measurements and the operation of high density digital electronics chips.
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT THE NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL NATIONAL SECURITY
PROGRAM
150-H New
This project will develop a revolutionary solution for next generation scintillation materials that are critical to a variety of high-energy particles, and radiation detection and imaging.
Boston
Applied
Technologies
Maintenance-Free Smart Power
150-H New
This project will develop a maintenance-free smart power system which will greatly benefit energy and power management and remote sensing mission. Success in this project will have big impact to energy storage programs and the country’s economy.
STTR Project
InnovaTek, Inc.
Ultra-Trace Molecular Detection
350 Hills Street
Instrumentation Based on Aerosol
Richland,
WA
Preconcentration and Separation
Research
Institution: Pacific
Northwest
National
Laboratory
This project will develop an ultra-sensitive sensor to enhance long-term monitoring of nuclear material production for weapons of mass destruction.
STTR Project
Konarka Technologies, Inc.
Novel Photocatalytic Energy Converter for
Boott-Cotton Mills
Nuclear Safeguards Applications
100 Foot of
Lowell
,
Research Institution: University
of
This program will develop a system for monitoring the status of spent nuclear
fuels. The self-powered system provides a tamper-resistant power source
that can be integrated with global positioning systems to locate, evaluate, and
track the spent nuclear fuel.
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND SUPPORT NUCLEAR
NONPROLIFERATION AGREEMENTS
STTR Project
Elsicon, Inc.
Fully Integrated Optical Micro Gyroscope
Delaware
5 Innovation Way, Suite 100
Newark
,
Research Institution: University
This project will develop a miniature device that uses properties of light to
generate essential information needed for guidance, navigation, and control in
both military and commercial settings. The
device will be batch-manufactured, using microelectronic tools and techniques
along with conventional materials, for high-volume, low-cost availability.
Q-Peak, Inc.
High-Pulse-Rate Sources for Active
135 South Road
Imaging Systems
Covert, laser-based imaging systems, mounted on aircraft or in space, can provide high-resolution, three-dimensional pictures for intelligence gathering and nuclear non-proliferation. This project will develop the special laser needed for these systems.
XCom Wireless, Inc.
Compact, Low-Cost, Phased Array
2815 Junipero Avenue
Antennas for Unmanned Air
Years of congressional funding for advanced research into radio-frequency circuitry have enabled the development of powerful radar systems that can track people and vehicles from air and space platforms. This program allows these radar systems to be miniaturized and mounted on unmanned air vehicles for low-cost, effective, and safe remote surveillance that protects our armed forces as well as our National Security interests.
TOPIC:
RESEARCH TO SUPPORT GLOBAL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION MONITORING
Geotech Instruments, LLC
Robust Remote Seismic Station
10755 Sanden Drive
This project will develop robust, remote seismic station hardware and software to address problem areas of data reliability and cost. These advances will improve nuclear explosion and earthquake monitoring and reduce its associated hazards and risks.
Quantum Technology Services, Inc.
RASA Prognostics from State of
This project will develop an operational system to predict an impending
failure of specific components on deployed Radionuclide Aerosol Sampler/Analyzer
units. By decreasing the length of shutdown for repairs, this approach enables
better network capability at a reduced cost.
X-Ray Instrumentation Associates
Low-Level Radioactive Xenon
Nuclear weapons tests, even underground, release radioactive xenon gas into the atmosphere. This project will develop an instrument to improve the detection of xenon and increase the likelihood that clandestine weapons will be discovered before they become a significant threat to the Nation.
TOPIC:
ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Development of Soft-Ionization for
Spectrometer
Small, organic, airborne particles, generated from energy-related activities, contribute to the formation of “acid rain” and adversely impact visibility, global climate and human health. This project will develop an instrument with unique capabilities for particle measurement, including real-time measurement of particle size and chemical composition.
STTR Project
Aerosol Dynamics, Inc.
A Compact, In-Situ Instrument for
2329 Fourth Street
Organic Acids
Research Institution: Colorado
State
University
New techniques are needed for characterization of organic compounds in ambient atmospheric aerosols in order to investigate their sources and environmental affects. This project will develop a new automated in-situ instrument for one set of these compounds, the carboxylic acids.
MetroLaser, Inc.
Optical Instrument to Measure Cloud
This project will develop technology to measure large cloud drops that exist in low concentration, but have significant influence on cloud radiative properties. The instrument will measure the size of cloud droplets in all practical concentrations.
NovaWave
Technologies, Inc.
Ultra-Sensitive, Compact
230A
Atmospheric Monitoring
This project will develop an instrument to make highly sensitive atmospheric concentration measurements of a variety of important chemical species, including formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, ethylene, and acetylene. These measurements will impact our understanding of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, and have numerous applications in pollution monitoring and control.
Physical Optics Corporation,
Real-Time Holographic
Electro-Optics & Holography Division
Water-Drop-Size Measurement
20600 Gramercy Place
System
Building 100
Drop size distribution and concentration in stratus clouds, which cover much of the earth, have a strong impact on global warming. This project will develop a new system, deployed on research aircraft and tethered balloons, or on the ground, to improve stratus cloud monitoring. Benefits include improved fuel efficiency and more efficient commercial irrigation systems.
Physical Sciences, Inc.
A Rugged, Quantum Cascade
20
Trace Gas Measurements in
Troposphere
This project will develop a highly sensitive instrument for monitoring trace species in the atmosphere, such as carbon monoxide, which impact the carbon cycle and troposphere ozone production. The precise readings from this instrument should render more accurate models of global climate change and regional air quality, that, in turn, will impact policy decisions relating to resource utilization and energy production.
SPEC, Inc.
A New Instrument for Reliable
This project will develop an instrument to reliably measure both liquid water content and drop size distribution in stratus clouds, for validating remote surface-based and space-borne observations of atmospheric radiation. Commercial applications include measuring drop size-distribution in industrial, agricultural, and fuel sprays.
Southwest Sciences, Inc.
Widely Tunable External Cavity
1570 Pacheco Street
Quantum Cascade Diode Laser for
Suite E-11
Multiple Trace Species
Some of the major uncertainties in climate change are identifying the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. An instrument will be developed that can measure multiple greenhouse gases simultaneously and very quickly, thereby allowing a better understanding of the global carbon cycle.
STTR Project
Vescent Photonics
Optical “Nose” for Rapid, Part-Per-
2927 Welton Street
Trillion
Trace Gas Detection
Research Insitution: JILA
This project will construct an optically-based, chemical detection system that can detect any gas-phase chemical at concentrations below one part-per-trillion.
TOPIC:
CARBON CYCLE MEASUREMENTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE BIOSPHERE
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Compact, Autonomous 13CO2 Flux
45 Manning Road
Monitor Using Pulsed Difference
This project will produce an instrument to continuously measure atmospheric carbon dioxide and its isotopic variants. Benefits include greater understanding of the conversion of gaseous carbon dioxide into biological carbon, and strategies to mitigate the effects of fossil fuel combustion on global warming and climate change.
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Sonde Deployable Carbon Dioxide
45 Manning Road
Sensor
This project will develop a small, lightweight sensor that can be mounted on a balloon-borne sonde. The sensor will be used to measure atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to improve modeling of its global warming potential.
InnoSense, LLC
Long-Term, Autonomous
25970 Eshelman Avenue
Measurement of Atmospheric
Lomita,
Ormosil Nanocomposite-Based
Optical Sensor
This project will develop a robust sensor for monitoring carbon sequestration activities at an affordable cost.
KalScott Engineering, Inc.
High Availability Unmanned Aerial
3226 SW Timberlake Lane
Platform for Carbon Cycle
The project will develop cost-effective monitoring of atmospheric carbon dioxide through the use of unmanned (robotic) aircraft. The monitors should find use in studies of the environment and global climate change
NovaWave Technologies, Inc.
Compact, Low Cost CO2 Isotope
230A
This project will investigate a low cost, rugged instrument to monitor carbon dioxide levels with high precision and accuracy. Such hardware is essential for establishing and enforcing worldwide emission standards, and for obtaining a greater understanding of global warming and climate change.
Seacoast Science, Inc.
A New Low-Power MEMS Sensor
This project will develop a sensor system based on novel MEMS technology that will remotely measure atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions from man-made and natural sources must be monitored for accurate prediction of global climate change.
TOPIC:
BIOLOGICAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Kent Sea Tech Corp
Large-Scale Microalgae Cultivation
Gas Abatement
This project will develop biological processes to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere while recycling agricultural waste products that negatively impact the environment.
SeaAg, Inc.
Microalgae Biofixation of CO2 and
705 27th Avenue, SW
Fertilizer Production for Greenhouse
Microalgae are microscopic plants grown in sea and fresh-waters and are currently used for the production of human foods and animal feeds and also in wastewater treatment. This project will use microalgae cultures for the co-production of biofuels with fertilizers for agriculture, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Veris Technologies, Inc.
A Soil Probe for In-Situ Near
601 N. Broadway
Infrared Spectroscopic Measurement
This project will test a soil probe that uses optical spectroscopy to make rapid and inexpensive carbon measurements. The probe will enhance the sequestration and trade of carbon and thereby reduce greenhouse gases.
Zimmerman Associates, Inc. (ZAI)
Plant and Soil Sequestration of
9302 Lee Highway
Carbon
This project will provide the first commercially-available airborne remote radar sensor with the ability to conduct detailed measurements of biomass and carbon for carbon cycle science, the timber industry, and for monitoring and verification survey services.
TOPIC:
MEDICAL SCIENCES
BioFlexis, LLC
Novel Metal Ion Based Estrogen
Metal containing estrogen based small molecules are useful in breast cancer diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy. The metal containing estrogen mimics described in this proposal are of novel design and overcomes the technical limitations currently faced by other approaches.
Gamma Medica, Inc.
Cervical Spect Camera for
The new camera proposed has tremendous potential to facilitate minimally invasive surgeries with the attending benefits as well as to limit the need for follow-up surgeries. This translates into reduced time, complexity and costs that today’s procedures (bilateral neck exploration) are currently accruing.
LS Technologies, Inc.
Discovery of Dense Ce Activated
Medical detectors need to be highly efficient, and have high resolution, fast speed of response, and low cost. This project will search for the best medical detector scintillator that meets all of these needs.
MicroCosm, Inc.
Novel Micro-Nanoprobes and
Suite O
Applications
Columbia, MD 21046-2584
This project will develop detection technology for studies of interacting biomolecules. By enabling highly sensitive, real-time monitoring of any kind of biomolecule, the technology should find use in a wide range of biotechnological areas, such as drug discovery, proteomics, genomics, and clinical diagnostics.
NanoSciences Corporation
A Compact Fast PMT for TOF PET
This project will develop a high speed photodetector that will enable significant advances in medical imaging in the area of positron emission tomography scanners which are noninvasive techniques that allow us to look inside the body and provide a window on biology in action.
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. A Detector for Combined SPECT/CT
44 Hunt Street
Small animal SPECT/CT scanner using proposed detector technology will have far better performance than current dual modality techniques in use, and will bring the power of non-invasive functional imaging to detailed studies of the mouse and rat. Such a tool will be of great importance in understanding biological functions and facilitate rapid progress in new drug developments.
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
Fast Microcolumnar Scintillator for
44 Hunt Street
Radionuclide Imaging
Suite
200
Watertown,
The CsI(T1) scintillator is widely used in many important medical and non-medical imaging applications. This project will develop material modifications to allow its use in radionuclide imaging, high speed computed tomography scanners for medical imaging, and homeland security applications. This will significantly enhance the performance of these important imaging modalities, while substantially reducing their cost.
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
High Performance Small Animal
44 Hunt Street
SPECT Imager
Suite
200
This project will develop detector technology useful in medical imaging studies. Other uses include enhancing national security, studies of diffraction and other areas of physics, and commercial applications supporting oil exploration and nondestructive evaluation.
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. Novel Scintillator for PET Imaging
44 Hunt
Street
This project will develop detector technology useful in medical imaging studies. Other uses include scientific studies supporting physics and astronomy research as well as commercial applications supporting oil exploration and non-destructive evaluation.
TOPIC:
GENOMES TO LIFE, AND RELATED BIOTECHNOLOGIES
EIC Laboratories, Inc.
Nanocrystal Labels for Multiplex
The limitations of existing organic fluorescent dyes will be addressed through the development of novel luminescent tags which will facilitate the simultaneous detection and identification of multiple types of biomolecules in a wide variety of assays.
Gener8, Inc.
High Throughput Fermentation and
Building 4L
This project will develop a microreactor system that will have broad application in microbial physiology, cell culture research, process research, and more specifically, fermentation development. The microreactor system will impact diverse industries ranging from pharmaceutical development to bioremediation of toxic waste.
Genetic Assemblies, Inc.
System Design for Development of a
Genome Scale Reagent Sets in
Pico-Molar Quantities
This project will develop a system capable of producing large quantities of genetic probes with significantly lower costs and increased flexibility. This will enable massive medical studies that are economically infeasible today.
Genomatica, Inc.
Computational Platform for Flux
5405 Morehouse Drive
Analysis Using
13C-Label Tracing
This project will establish a software platform for developing computer models that simulate bacterial metabolism. These models should improve our understanding of energy-related biological processes and enable their use to address issues of energy production, carbon fixation, and bioremediation.
Taxon Biosciences, Inc.
SARD: A Novel Surveying Method
This project will develop technology for characterizing complex microbial populations to gain insight into the microbial world. Commercial applications include petroleum and mineral exploration, pollutant detection, and clinical diagnostics.
STTR Project
YAHSGS, LLC
Ontological Annotation for
182 Bradley Boulevard
Cross-Scale
Discovery in the
This project will develop technology
that uses semantic, syntactic, and structural information
to enable biomedical researchers to access the enormous quantity of data that
exists in numerous different databases.
TOPIC:
MEASUREMENT/MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE
SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT
STTR Project
Adherent Technologies, Inc.
Scintillating Fiber Optic Groundwater
9621 Camino del Sol
Monitors with Radionuclide-Selective
This program will develop fiber optic sensor systems for the monitoring of radionuclides in groundwater. The data provided by these sensor systems will greatly reduce the cost and time required to conduct analyses needed for ongoing site remediation efforts.
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Hand-Held Phytoremediation
45 Manning Road
Monitor
This project will develop a monitor to evaluate the effectiveness of green plants used to extract contaminants from soil, sediments and groundwater.
Applied Natural Sciences, Inc.