The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Star Cryoelectronics, LLC on July 10, 2023 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop aluminum-based superconducting tunnel junction radiation detectors for a sterile neutrino search. Star Cryoelectronics, a for-profit manufacturer of cryogenic solutions, will leverage specialized facilities and expertise at Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) to characterize the...
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...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Brimrose Technology Corporation a $1,349,577 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop cadmium magnesium telluride for picosecond response x-ray optical laser photodetectors. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security. Under this award...
Xtallized Intelligence Inc. was awarded a $199,999 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop fast, dense, non-hygroscopic scintillators for particle detectors. The grant-funded project will be completed by March 26, 2023. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $256,500.00 to Sydor Instruments, LLC (doing business as Sydor Technologies) to develop a fast detector for dose-efficient scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) of thick biological and environmental samples. The funding will support Sydor Instruments' research and innovation efforts to create advanced scientific instrumentation that can enhance the...
Sydor Instruments, LLC was awarded a $1,350,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop an ASIC-coupled microchannel plate for time resolved, single-photon soft x-ray detection. The grant is being used to deliver a scientific instrument that will enable new discoveries by allowing researchers to detect individual photons in the soft x-ray range of the electromagnetic spectrum with high temporal resolution. This work directly supports the...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Nion Co. a $199,715 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop FAST AND PRECISE ELECTROSTATIC BEAM POSITION CONTROL FOR AN ATOMIC-RESOLUTION STEM. The grant, awarded February 21, 2023 for completion by November 20, 2023, will support Nion Co.'s work to deliver products and services focused on controlling the position of electrostatic beams with atomic-level precision for scanning...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $200,000.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Hypres Inc., a for-profit technology company based in Elmsford, New York. The award is for the development of a superconductor time-to-digital converter (TDC) for a single-photon detector array readout system capable of achieving 2.5 picosecond time-of-arrival resolution. This research and development project aims to advance...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $200,000 project grant to Nvizix LLC on July 10, 2023. The grant will fund the development of secondary emission detector modules for high energy physics experiments. The goal is to advance scientific understanding, support technological innovation, and facilitate studies of critical interest, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Nion Co a $199,352 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop open source (S)TEM control software. The grant supported Nion Co's work from February 2021 through November 2021 to create powerful and user-friendly microscope control, data analysis, and visualization software called OPEN SOURCE (S)TEM CONTROL USING NION SWIFT. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries...