Project Grant DESC0024810

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 $250,000 to Star Cryoelectronics, LLC through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-performance superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) soft x-ray detector for biological science. The STJ soft x-ray detector will utilize superconducting tunnel junction technology to detect soft x-rays at the nanoscale level for biological imaging and spectroscopy applications. The project aims to advance SC's mission to...

This $411,735 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop specialized germanium detectors and conduct experiments at the TRIUMF accelerator center in Canada. The goal is to search for a hypothesized boson particle in the decay of antimuons by focusing on low-energy signatures. The University of Chicago will receive the funding to build detectors with improved energy resolution of over three orders of magnitude compared to previous large scintillator calorimeters. These...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $399,000 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) to develop a new generation of cost-effective, scalable, and stable radiation detectors with ultra-high detectivity. This is a joint effort between the University at Buffalo, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford to address the challenge of engineering materials and manufacturing...

Hyper TECH Research Inc. received a $413,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research and development of high critical current density and low ac loss niobium-tin superconductors for 16-20 Tesla fusion magnets through March 26, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $199,917 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Mainstream Engineering Corp in Rockledge, Florida on February 12, 2024. The grant supports the development of high-purity, ultra-low-radioactivity capacitors for use in cryogenic detectors for fundamental physics experiments, specifically the NEXO collaboration's search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The capacitors are required to operate the application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Radiabeam Technologies, LLC received a $1.4M Cooperative Agreement award dated April 7, 2026, from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) under the Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now (NEWTON) program to develop and demonstrate superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities for high-power proton linear accelerators. The primary deliverable is the design, development, and validation of two types of niobium-tin (Nb₃Sn)...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (ENG), under the federal program titled "Engineering" (CFDA #47.041), provides $316,039 to Boston College to develop high-temperature superconducting photon detectors. Specifically, the grantee will investigate new methods for preparing template films for selective area growth of yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) films and explore using chemical vapor deposition graphene as a protective...

This $449,946 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research at Stanford University and the University of Washington to develop a novel axion detector called a haloscope. The haloscope is expected to improve the scan rate of axion dark matter experiments by more than three orders of magnitude at frequencies between 4-7 GHz. Researchers will fabricate and test a full-sized science-grade cavity under cryogenic conditions in...