Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009018

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Elektrum Technologies, Inc. aims to develop an ultra-low-cost, fully additive manufacturing process for producing flexible, transparent metal-mesh conductive electrodes. The project will focus on (1) improving catalytic ink formulations compatible with high-speed micropatterning, and (2) prototyping an innovative roll-to-roll electroless plating system with enhanced...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Radiabeam Systems, LLC $399,110 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a Cold Plasma Cathode for High Resolution Condensed Matter Electron Spectroscopy. The project aims to deliver a new type of electron source for microscopy and spectroscopy that offers improved resolution over traditional thermionic electron sources. Work will be conducted between June 2022 through March 2023 in Santa Monica,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $305,000 in funding to Julia Jean, LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Irvine, California. The award will support the development of a wafer-scale process for creating controllable cold cathode electron sources to advance integrated circuit design and manufacturing for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The key product being...

Radiabeam Technologies, LLC received a $199,864 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to support work completing November 13, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security through scientific discoveries and major scientific tools. Specifically, the funding will support Radiabeam Technologies' work on...

This 18-month Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) provides $250,000 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to advance low-cost, scalable, in-line electrochemical defect quantification platforms. The goal is to elucidate the impacts of light- and thermal-induced halide migration at buried interfaces that contribute to decreased stability of high-performing,...

This $271,320 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Arizona State University to develop machine learning-assisted ultrafast physical vapor deposition of high-quality, large-area functional thin films. The goal is to apply machine learning algorithms to optimize thin film growth conditions and accelerate the development of thin films with targeted electronic and optical properties. This will enable faster and lower-cost manufacturing of functional oxides, chalcogenides...

This $585,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) to Electroninks Incorporated will develop new screen-printed reactive metal complex pastes for photovoltaic applications. The project aims to lower the cost of metallization and improve solar cell efficiencies through innovations in printing denser and thinner metal films, decreasing firing temperatures, and...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Radiabeam Technologies, LLC, a small business in Santa Monica, California, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The funding supports the company's research and development efforts toward "ION LINAC ACCELERATORS BASED ON NIOBIUM-TIN", with a project period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025. Radiabeam Technologies specializes in advanced particle accelerator...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $343,615 supports research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln into ion-surface interaction-driven manufacturing of one-dimensional metal oxide heterostructures from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The research aims to advance manufacturing techniques for producing large-area arrays of nanostructures with precise geometrical shape and elemental composition control for applications in areas such as biomedical sensing and quantum technologies....

Through a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), Julia Jean, LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Irvine, California, is conducting research to test the business case for commercializing a NIST-invented cold cathode electron field emitter technology and implement new lithography procedures for scaling up this important electron source technology....