U.S. Department of Energy

Small Business Innovation Research Program

and

Small Business Technology Transfer Program

FY 2005 Phase II - Abstracts

 

 

FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

1.      Improved Magnetron Injection Guns for Gyrotrons

         Calabazas Creek Research, Inc., Saratoga, CA

 

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

         HyperV Technologies Corp., Fairfax Station, VA

 

3.      Inductive Plasma Accelerator

         MSNW, Bellevue, WA

 

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

         Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO

 

 

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS

 

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

         Composite Technology Development, Inc., Lafayette, CO

 

6.      Physical Model Development and Benchmarking for MHD Flows in Blanket Design

         HyPerComp, Inc., Westlake Village, CA

 

7.      Engineered Surfaces for the Lithium Tokamak Experiment

         Plasma Processes, Inc., Huntsville, AL

 

8.      Microstructual Refinement of Ta for Superconductor Diffusion Barrier Applications

         Shear Form, Inc., College Station, TX

 

 

INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY

 

9.      *STTR Project* Ion Beam Drift Compression Technology for NDCX

         First Point Scientific, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA

 

 

HIGH-FIELD SUPERCONDUCTOR AND SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET

TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE COLLIDERS

 

10.    Moldable Ceramic Composites for High Field Magnet Applications

         MultiPhase Composites, Longmont, CO

 

11.    *STTR Project* Hydrogen Cryostat for Muon Beam Cooling

         MUONS, Inc., Batavia, IL

 

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

         Supergenics I, LLC, Sarasota, FL

 

 

ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS

 

13.    Tm-Doped Ceramic Laser for Laser Accelerator Applications

         Boston Applied Technologies, Inc., Woburn, MA

 

14.    Low Loss Ferroelectric Material Development for Accelerator Applications

         Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, OH

 

15.    Open Architecture Software Integration System for Particle Beam Optics

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

 

16.    Ionization Cooling Using Parametric Resonances

         MUONS, Inc., Batavia, IL

 

17.    *STTR Project* Development of PUNDA (Parametric Universal Nonlinear Dynamics Approximator) Models for Self-Validating Knowledge-Guided Modelling of Nonlinear Processes in Particle Accelerators and Industry

         Pavilion Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX

 

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

         RadiaBeam Technologies LLC, Los Angeles, CA

 

19.    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

 

20.    Electron Cloud Diagnostic for Quadrupole Magnets

         TechSource, Inc., Santa Fe, NM

 

 

RADIO FREQUENCY ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY

ACCELERATORS AND COLLIDERS

 

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

         Black Laboratories, LLC, Newport News, VA

 

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

         Elcon Inc. (formerly MacroMetalics), San Jose, CA

 

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

         Haimson Research Corporation, Santa Clara, CA

 

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

         Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT

 

 

TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE NEXT-GENERATION ELECTRON-POSITRON LINEAR COLLIDER

 

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

         Epion Corporation, Billerica, MA

 

26.    High Resolution Seismometer Insensitive to Magnetic Fields for the Linear Collider Program (Currently ILC)

         PMD Scientific, Inc., St. Louis, MO

 

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

         Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT

 

28.    Linearized Wigglers for Damping Rings

         STI Optronics, Inc., Bellevue, WA

 

 

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTORS

 

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

         Applied Plastics Technology, Inc., Bristol, RI

 

 

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING

 

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

         FiveSight Technologies, Inc., Chicago, IL

 

 

HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS

 

31.    Grid Network Session Processing and Forwarding Engine

         Open Solutions GP, Fremont, CA

 

32.    SAMTP (SONET Application Memory Transport)

         Pentum Group, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

 

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

         Reservoir Labs, Inc., New York, NY

 

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

         SeaFire Micros, Inc., Beverly, MA

 

 

SCALABLE MIDDLEWARE AND GRID TECHNOLOGIES

 

35.    Distributed CCA Components and Grid Services for Scientific Computing

         Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO

 

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

         Tungsten Graphics, Woodbury, CT

 

 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS ELECTRONICS DESIGN AND FABRICATION

 

37.    *STTR Project* Fast Real-time Decision Processor Using an FPGA Array

         Northern Microdesign, Inc., Ames, IA

 

 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY

 

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

         Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC), San Leandro, CA

 

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

         FAR-TECH, Inc., San Diego, CA

 

40.    Improved ECR Charge Breeder for Rare Ion Species

         Scientific Solutions, San Diego, CA

 

41.    SPECS:  Small Particle Electron Cooling Simulations

         Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO

 

 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS DETECTORS, INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES

 

42.    Novel Silica Aerogel Panels as Radiators for Cherenkov Detectors

         Aspen Aerogels, Inc., Northborough, MA

 

43.    Single Crystal Molybdates for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments

         Integrated Photonics, Inc., Hillsborough, NJ

 

44.    Novel Scintillator for Nuclear Physics Studies

         Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA

 

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

         Reeves & Sons, LLC, Richland, WA

 

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

         STAR Cryoelectronics, Santa Fe, NM

 

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

         Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO

 

 

TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT THE NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL

NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM

 

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

         Boston Applied Technologies, Inc., Woburn, MA

 

 

TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND SUPPORT NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION AGREEMENTS

 

49.    *STTR Project* Fully Integrated Optical Micro Gyroscope

         Elsicon, Inc., Newark, DE

 

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

         Q-Peak, Inc., Bedford, MA

 

 

RESEARCH TO SUPPORT GLOBAL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION MONITORING

 

51.    Robust Remote Seismic Station

         Geotech Instruments, LLC, Dallas, TX

 

52.    Low Level Radioactive Xenon Monitoring by Phoswich Detector System

         XIA, LLC, Newark, CA

 

 

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY

 

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

         Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA

 

54.    *STTR Project* A Compact, In-Situ Instrument for Organic Acid Areosols

         Aerosol Dynamics, Inc., Berkeley, CA

 

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

         NovaWave Technologies, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA

 

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

         Physical Optics Corporation, Torrance, CA

 

 

CARBON CYCLE MEASUREMENTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE BIOSPHERE

 

57.    Compact, Autonomous, Carbon Isotope Flux Monitor Using Difference Frequency Generation Infrared Absorption

         Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA

 

58.    High Availability Unmanned Aerial Platform for Carbon Cycle Measurements

         KalScott Engineering, Inc., Topeka, KS

 

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

         Seacoast Science, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

 

 

BIOLOGICAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

 

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

         Kent Sea Tech Corp, San Diego, CA

 

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

         SeaAg, Inc., Vero Beach, FL

 

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

         Veris Technologies, Inc., Salina, KS

 

63.    Plant and Soil Sequestration of Carbon

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

 

 

MEDICAL SCIENCES

 

64.    Fast Microcolumnar Scintillator for Radionuclide Imaging

         Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA

 

65.    High Performance Small Animal SPECT Imager

         Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA

 

66.    Novel Scintillator for PET Imaging

         Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA

 

 

GENOMES TO LIFE, AND RELATED BIOTECHNOLOGIES

 

67.    High Throughput Fermentation and Cell Culture Device

         Gener8, Inc., Mountain View, CA

 

68.    SARD: A Novel Surveying Method to Develop Genomic Reagents

         Taxon Biosciences, Inc., Tiburon, CA

 

 

MEASUREMENT/MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT

 

69.    Automated Impedance Tomography for Monitoring Permeable Reactive Barrier Health

         Multi-Phase Technologies, LLC, Sparks, NV

 

70.    Remote In-Situ Monitoring of Metal Contaminants in Groundwater with a Compact Grazing-Incident Monochromatic Microbeam X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer

         X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc., East Greenbush, NY

 

 

TECHNOLOGIES TO FACILITATE MANAGEMENT OF BURIED TRANSURANIC AND MIXED WASTE

 

71.    Using Downhole Probes to Locate and Characterize Buried Transuranic and Mixed Low Level Waste

         Applied Physics and Measurements, Inc., Missouri City, TX

 

 

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY

 

72.    *STTR Project* High Brightness Neutron Source for Radiography

         Adelphi Technology, Inc., San Carlos, CA

 

73.    Adaptive On-Line Monitoring for Improved Equipment Reliability

         Expert Microsystems, Inc., Orangevale, CA

 

74.    High-Temperature Fiber Optic Sensors for Nuclear Power Applications II

         Luna Innovations Incorporated, Blacksburg, VA

 

75.    Development of an Advanced Deterministic Reactor Physics Modeling Tool

         Transpire, Inc., Gig Harbor, WA

 

 

ADVANCED FOSSIL FUELS RESEARCH

 

76.    CO2 Sequestration in Cell Biomass of Chlorobium Thiosulfatophilum

         Bioengineering Resources, Inc., Fayetteville, AR

 

 

NEUTRON AND ELECTRON BEAM INSTRUMENTATION

 

77.    A New Ceramic Scintillator for Neutron Detection

         ALEM-RMD Joint Venture, Watertown, MA

 

78.    Precision Holder Technology for In-Situ TEM Experimentation

         E A Fischione Instruments, Inc., Export, PA

 

79.    Quantitative In-Situ TEM Nanoindentation Instrument

         Hysitron Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN

 

80.    Neutron Detector System Using Cross Fiber Scintillator Readout

         PartTec, Ltd, Bloomington, IN

 

 

ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES

 

81.    Novel, High Energy Density Intermetallic Anode Material for Li-Ion Batteries

         Farasis Energy, Inc., Hayward, CA

 

82.    Polythiophosphonate Electrolytes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries

         Phoenix Innovation Inc., West Wareham, MA

 

83.    Lithium Ion-Channel Polymer Electrolyte for Lithium Metal Anode Rechargeable Batteries

         TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO

 

 

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH FOR THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY

 

84.    Complex Coolant Fluid for PEM Cell Systems

         Advanced Fluid Technologies, Inc. dba Dynalene Heat Transfer Fluids, Whitehall, PA

 

85.    *STTR Project* Cellulase Production and Increased Biomass in Mutlifunction Crop Plants

         Edenspace Systems Corporation, Chantilly, VA

 

 

NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY

 

86.    "Metal Rubber" Nanostructured Materials

         NanoSonic, Inc., Christiansburg, VA

 

87.    Self-Cleaning Surfaces with Morphology Mimicking Superhydrophobic Biological Surfaces

         nGimat Co., Atlanta, GA

 

88.    Nanocomposite Polymers for Smart Window Films

         Wavefront Technology, Inc., Paramount, CA

 

 

REACTIVE SEPARATIONS

 

89.    Reactive Distillation for Vinyl Ether Synthesis

         KSE, Inc., Amherst, MA

 

90.    Use of Reactive Distillation in Chain Propogation Reactions

         MC International Research, Inc., Kemah, TX

 

91.    Increasing Ethylene/Propylene Plant Product Yield via Three Phase Metathesis

         MPM Technology, LLC, Deer Park, TX

 

 

SOLID STATE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES FOR GENERAL LIGHTING

 

92.    Enhancing Charge Injection and Device Integrity in Organic LEDs

         Agiltron, Inc., Woburngton, MA

 

93.    Zinc Oxide Based Light Emitting Diodes

         Materials Modification, Inc., Fairfax, VA

 

94.    High Efficiency, White TOLED Devices for Lighting Applications

         Universal Display Corporation, Ewing, NJ

 

 

NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR GENERAL ILLUMINATION APPLICATIONS

 

95.    Development of a Distributed Advanced High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lighting System with Instant Light to Directly Replace Incandescent Accent Lighting

         Fiberstars, Inc., Solon, OH

 

96.    Development of Polymer Processing Techniques for Dramatic Cost Reduction of Large Core Plastic Optical Fiber, for Use with Advanced, High Intensity Discharge (HID) Distributed Accent Lighting System

         Fiberstars, Inc., Solon, OH

 

97.    High Efficiency Nanocomposite White Light Phosphors

         Nanosys, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

 

 

ENERGY EFFICIENT MEMBRANES

 

98.    Bioethanol Production with Membranes

         Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR), Menlo Park, CA

 

99.    Stable Membranes for Separating Hydrogen Containing Petrochemical and Refinery Streams

         Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR), Menlo Park, CA

 

 

MATERIALS FOR INDUSTRIAL ENERGY SYSTEMS

 

100.  Functionally Graded Aluminum Nitride - Oxide Coatings for Hot Pipe Protection

         Eltron Research, Inc., Boulder, CO

 

101.  Novel Heat Exchangers with Enhanced Surface

         MER Corporation (Materials and Electrochemical Research), Tucson, AZ

 

102.  Investigation of (CaO)x(Al2O3)x for Thermal Insulation and Molten Aluminum Contact

         Westmoreland Advanced Materials, Arnold, PA

 

 

NEW ENERGY SOURCES

 

103.  A High Efficiency PV to Hydrogen Energy System

         Amonix, Inc., Torrance, CA

 

104.  High-Efficiency, Ultra-High Pressure Electrolysis with Direct Linkage to Photovoltaic Arrays

         Avalence, LLC, Milford, CT

 

105.  Development of Solar Grade (SoG) Silicon

         Crystal Systems, Inc., Salem, MA

 

106.  Novel, Low-Cost Solid Membrane Water Electrolyzer

         Giner, Inc., Newton, MA

 

107.  An Innovative Technique of Preparing Solar Grade Silicon Wafers from Metallurgical Grade Silicon by In-Situ Purification

         GT Equipment Technologies, Inc., Merrimack, NH

 

108.  Power Converters for Diverse Applications

         UQM Technologies, Inc., Frederick, CO

 

 

SENSORS AND CONTROLS

 

109. *STTR Project* Low-Cost Vibration Power Harvesting for Industrial Wireless Sensors

         KCF Technologies, Inc., State College, PA

 

110.  High Temperature Electronic Nose for In-Situ Exhaust Measurement

         Makel Engineering, Inc., Chico, CA

 

 

MEASUREMENT AND TECHNOLOGY FOR GASIFICATION

 

111.  Multicontaminant Warm Gas Cleanup

         TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO

 

 

MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED POWER SYSTEMS

 

112.  Composite, High-Temperature Seals for Gas Separation Membrane Devices

         Ceramatec, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT

 

113.  Optimization of Metal Alloys for High Pressure Hydrogen Separation Membranes

         Eltron Research, Inc., Boulder, CO

 

 

GREENHOUSE AND HYDROGEN GAS RESEARCH

 

114.  Elimination of Methane from Landfill Gas

         Alchem Field Services, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK

 

115.  Membrane-Based Hybrid Process to Capture CO2 from Warm Flue Gas

         Chembrane Research and Engineering, Inc., Newark, NJ

 

116.  Hydrogen Recovery and Carbon Dioxide Separation In Steam Methane Reformers

         Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR), Menlo Park, CA

 

 

SEQUESTRATION OF CARBON

 

117.  Rigorous Screening Technology for Identifying Suitable CO2 Storage Sites

         Advanced Resources International, Inc., Arlington, VA

 

118. *STTR Project* Multiple-Input Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) for Measuring the Carbon Content in Soil Using Inelastic Neutron Scattering

         XIA, LLC, Newark, CA

 

 

NATURAL GAS AND OIL TECHNOLOGIES

 

119.  Thermal Recovery of North Slope (AK) Heavy-Oils from Ugnu and West Sak Sands is Feasible without Permafrost Melting around Multi-Branch Wells

         S-Cal Research Corporation, San Rafael, CA

 

120.  Development of a Magnetically Coupled Borehole Source for Use in Dry Gas Environments

         Z-Seis Corporation, Houston, TX