Project Grant DESC0018517

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $206,500 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Phase III Physics LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for the development of a "Polarizing Supermirror Assembly Systems (PSAS) for Advanced Neutron Beam Optics" project. The grant, awarded on February 18, 2025, supports the establishment of a Multilayer Guide Manufacturing Facility (MGMF) to produce specialized neutron guides, polarizing...

American Physics And Technology LLC (Apt) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to support work on ULTRA-PRECISION SUBSTRATE FIGURING FOR COHERENCY-PRESERVING X-RAY MIRRORS through March 31, 2023. Under this award made through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), Apt will develop techniques for ultra-precision substrate figuring to enable the fabrication of coherency-preserving x-ray mirrors. The...

Nanocoatings Inc. (NCI) was awarded a $249,949 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop wire-arc additive manufacturing and wire-arc thermal spray methods to clad nuclear-reactor materials. The one-year project period runs from February 21, 2023 through February 20, 2024 and will be performed in Rapid City, South Dakota. Under this award, NCI will work to advance additive manufacturing and...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a $199,992 Project Grant to Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop hybrid neutron supermirrors. The award, which began on February 12, 2024, supports RMD's research and development of advanced radiation detection technologies. As an experienced provider of specialized radiation detection equipment and services for government and commercial applications,...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,998 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD), a small business subsidiary of Dynasil Corporation of America, to develop neutron polarizers and analyzers via polarizing supermirrors using atomic layer deposition. The project aims to advance specialized radiation detection and measurement technologies, with a focus on creating innovative neutron detection systems. RMD has extensive experience in federal...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), funded the development of hafnium-based superconducting tunnel junction radiation detectors by Star Cryoelectronics, LLC of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The detectors will be used for sterile neutrino searches by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, operating as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, through a $200,000 sub-award from Star...

Applied Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $205,245 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a fast, radiation tolerant detector for thermal neutrons. The grant supported Applied Diamond's work to deliver a new neutron detection technology with applications in basic energy research, including neutron scattering and nuclear physics. The project was completed between February 2021 and February 2022. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $390,000 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to explore methods for improving the quality of thin metal films grown on solid surfaces using atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques. The principal investigator, Prof. Francisco Zaera, will investigate preconditioning surface treatments to control the size and density of ALD-grown metal...

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 Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under the Stewardship Science Grant Program (CFDA 81.112), supports fundamental scientific research relevant to maintaining the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The $300,000 award, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028, will be used by the University of Notre Dame to continue developing a new particle-absorption reaction technique for...