U.S. Department of Energy
Small Business Innovation Research Program

FY 2001 Phase II - Awards by Topic


ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING RESEARCH

 TOPIC:    IMPROVED COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES

MER Corporation
7960 South Kolb Road
Tucson, AZ 85706

The Development and Commercial Demonstration of Reliable Highly Adherent Metalization of AIN

 TOPIC:  HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS

D. N. American, Inc.
1000 Technology Drive, Suite 3220
Fairmont, WV 26554

Collaborative File System (CFS)

Ionic Systems, Inc.
1430 Tully Road                                     Unit 417
San Jose, CA 95122

Non-Linear Optical Devices for High Performance Networking, Computing and Telecommunication Routing and Modulating

Physical Optics Corporation
20600 Gramercy Place
Building 100
Torrance, CA 90501-1821

Enhanced Wireless Cellular Packet Transmission Security via Spatial Diversity

Tech-X Corporation
5541 Central Avenue                          Suite 135
Boulder, CO 80301

CORBA for Fourth Generation Languages

BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES

 TOPIC:  HIGH-TEMPERATURE ELECTRONICS DEVELOPMENT FOR GEOTHERMAL APPLICATIONS

E-Spectrum Technologies, Inc.
12725 Spectrum Drive
San Antonio, TX 78249

A Pressure/Temperature Tool for Geothermal Drilling Applications Based on a High-Temperature Universal Logging Computer

LEL Corporation
5 Burns Place
Cresskill, NJ 07626-1003

Advanced Geothermal Optical Transducer (AGOT)

PhotoSonic, Inc.
200 Country Club Drive                      Building D
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Low-Cost, High-Temperature Logging Tool for Geothermal Wells

 TOPIC:  NEUTRON INSTRUMENTATION

NOVA Scientific, Inc.
660 Main Street                                     P.O. Box 928
Sturbridge, MA 01566-0928

Fast-Response, Two-Dimensional Detector for Epithermal Neutron Detection with Adjustable Shape

 TOPIC:  LITHIUM-BASED BATTERY TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRIC
AND HYBRID VEHICLES

Eltron Research, Inc.
4600 Nautilus Court South
Boulder, CO 80301-3241

Novel Lithium-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

TPL, Inc.
3921 Academy Parkway North, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109-4416

Synthesis of New, Solid Polymer Electrolytes

 TOPIC:  RECOVERY, RECYCLE, AND RE-USE OF POLYMERS 
AND PLASTICS

Adherent Technologies, Inc.
9621 Camino del Sol, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111-1522

Low-Temperature Composite Recycling Process

Physical Sciences, Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810-1077

Development of Data Processing Scheme for Plastic Identification Instruments

 TOPIC:  MEMBRANES FOR ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES

CeraMem Corporation
12 Clematis Avenue
Waltham, MA 02453

Ceramic Membrane Process for Upgrading Vacuum Residual Oil

Compact Membrane Systems, Inc.
325 Water Street
Wilmington, DE 19804

Harsh Fluorochemical Separation

Compact Membrane Systems, Inc.
325 Water Street
Wilmington, DE 19804

Membranes for Reverse Organic-Air
Separations

Eltron Research, Inc.
4600 Nautilus Court South
Boulder, CO 80301-3241

Ceramic Appliques for the Production of Supported Thin-Film Catalytic Membrane Reactors

Media and Process Technology, Inc.
1155 William Pitt Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15238-1368

Affinity Ceramic Membranes with Carbon Dioxide Transport Channel

Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR)
1360 Willow Road                              Suite 103
Menlo Park, CA 94025-1516

Hydrogen Recovery Process Using New Membrane Materials

Techology Assessment & Transfer, Inc.
133 Defense Highway                       Suite21
Annapolis, MD 21401

Photocatalytic Membranes for Producing Ultrapure Water

 TOPIC:  REACTIVE SEPARATIONS

CeraMem Corporation
12 Clematis Avenue
Waltham, MA 02453

Novel Membrane Reactor for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

Epsilon Technologies
99 Dorsa Avenue
Livingstone, NJ  07039

High-Octane Fuel Stocks via Reactive
Distillation

Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR)
1360 Willow Road                                Suite 103
Menlo Park, CA 94025-1516

Isobutane Isomerization Membrane
Reactor

 BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

 TOPIC:  GENOME, STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, AND RELATED BIOTECHNOLOGIES

Fidelity Systems, Inc.
7961 Cessna Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4117

High-Throughput Sequencing of Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes and Genomic DNA

 TOPIC:  MEDICAL SCIENCES

BioNeutrics, Inc.
9821 Cogdill Road                              Suite 1
Knoxville, TN 37932
New Boronated Amino Acids for Neutron Capture Therapy

Lynntech, Inc.
7610 Eastmark Drive                          Suite 202
College Station, TX 77840-4023

An Electrochemical Microfluide System

NOVA R&D, Inc.
1525 Third Street                                Suite #C
Riverside, CA 92507-3429

Fast, Low-Noise Readout Chip for Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for Use in Positron-Emission Tomography Imaging

PETNet Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
810 Innovation Drive
Knoxville, TN 37932

A Simple Target for the Production of Aqueous [18F] Fluoride Ion Using [18O] Oxygen Gas

 TOPIC:  CARBON CYCLE MEASUREMENTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
AND THE BIOSPHERE

Aerodyne Research, Inc.
45 Manning Road
Billerica, MA 01821-3934

Widely Tunable Infrared Laser Spectrometer for Measurement of Isotopic Ratios of Carbon Cycle Gases

Los Gatos Research
67 East Evelyn Avenue                         Suite 3
Mountain View, CA 94041-1518

Carbon Isotope Ratiometer

Nanomaterials Research
2021 Miller Drive
Longmont, CO 80503

Miniature, Electrochemical Carbon
Dioxide Detector

 TOPIC:  ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY

Aerodyne Research, Inc.
45 Manning Road
Billerica, MA 01821-3934

Development of a Versatile Aircraft Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for Organic Aerosol Analysis

SPEC Incorporated
5401 Western Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301

An Automated System for Measuring Microphysical and Radiative Cloud Characteristics from a Tethered Balloon

 TOPIC:  ADVANCED MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOILS, SEDIMENTS, AND GROUNDWATER

IA, Inc.
P.O. Box 1306
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1306

Real-Time Array Sensor System for Field Monitoring of Metal Ions

Lynntech, Inc.
7610 Eastmark Drive                           Suite 202
College Station, TX 77840-4023

An Innovative, Ultramicroelectrode Array for Field-Deployable Trace Metal Analysis

 TOPIC:  TECHNOLOGIES FOR LONG-TERM MONITORING OF CONTAMINANTS AT DOE SITES

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc.
2520 West 237th Street
Torrance, CA 90505-5217

Intelligent Unmanned Monitoring of Remediated Sites

X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc.
30 Corporate Circle
Albany, NY 12203

Compact, Polycapillary-Based Microbeam X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis System for Remote Monitoring of Metal Contamination

 TOPIC:  TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEACTIVATION 
AND DECOMMISSIONING

ADA Technologies, Inc.
8100 Shaffer Parkway                        Suite 130
Littleton, CO 80127-4107

Portable, Multi-Contaminant Detection Instrument for Research and Development

ARM Automation, Inc.
14141 West Highway 290                   Suite 700
Austin, TX 78737

Modular Robotics for Delivering On-Site Contamination Sensors and Mapping Systems to Difficult-to-Access Locations

Automatika, Inc.
235 Alpha Drive                                   The Abbott Building                    Pittsburgh, PA 15238

PipeTaz: Automated Pipe Asbestos Insulation Removal and Processing System

FOSSIL ENERGY

 TOPIC:  OIL AND GAS TECHNOLOGIES

4th Wave Imaging Corporation
850 Glenneyre Street
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Enhanced, Three-Dimensional, Multicomponent Seismic Imaging for Lithology and Fluid Characterization

Tempress Technologies, Inc.
1885 72nd Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032

Seismic-While-Drilling Source for Real-Time Pore Pressure Prediction 

 TOPIC:  MATERIALS RESEARCH FOR 
FOSSIL ENERGY APPLICATIONS

Materials & Electrochemical Research
(MER) Corp.
7960 South Kolb Road
Tucson, AZ 85706

Novel Joining Technique for Oxide-Dispersion Strengthened Iron Aluminide Alloys

Materials and Systems Research, Inc.
5395 West 700 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104

A Metallic Interconnect for Intermediate Temperature, Planar, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.
The Millennium Centre                             R.D. 1, Box 100B                           Tridelphia, WV 26059

Inexpensive High-Efficiency Fuel Cell Electrodes and Batteries Made from Cellular Coal

 TOPIC:  HYDROGEN AND FUELS TECHNOLOGIES

Applied Thin Films, Inc.
1801 Maple Avenue                            Suite 5316
Evanston, IL 60201

Utilization of Hydrocarbon Fuels In Low-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

EXPORTech Company, Inc.
Building 242                                      Schreiber Industrial District
P.O. Box 588
New Kensington, PA 15068-0588

Magnetic Separation of Catalyst Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst Wax

 TOPIC:  HYDROGEN PROGRAM: ALTERNATIVE CLIMATE-FRIENDLY PROCESS TO PRODUCE FUELS FOR FUEL CELLS

Materials & Electrochemical Research
(MER) Corp.
7960 South Kolb Road
Tucson, AZ 85706

Low-Cost Arc Process to Produce Single-Walled Nano-Tubes Using Coal-Based Starting Materials

 TOPIC:  FUEL CELLS FOR BUILDINGS

Aspen Systems, Inc.
184 Cedar Hill Street
Marlborough, MA 01752-3017

Sorption-Reaction System for Reformate Purification

FuelCell Energy, Inc.
3 Great Pasture Road
PO Box 1305
Danbury, CT 06813-1305

Advanced Cathode Structure for Oxygen Reduction in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

 TOPIC:  ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR 
GENERAL PURPOSE LIGHTING

Foster-Miller, Inc.
350 Second Avenue
Waltham, MA 02451-1196

Efficient, Selective, Emitter-Based Incandescent Lamps

 TOPIC:  HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY

AeroVironment, Inc.
825 Myrtle Avevue
Monrovia, CA 91016

Direct Lamination Cooling of Motors for Electric Vehicles

VPT, Inc.
2801 Commerce Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Integration of High-Speed, Alternating-Current Induction Motor/Inverter System for Electric-and Hybrid-Electric-Vehicle Auxiliary Motor Drives

 TOPIC:  BIOPRODUCTS AND BIOENERGY RESEARCH

LEC TECH, Inc.
16647 Chandler Road
East Lansing, MI 48864

Separation Process for Biobased Succinic Acid

Physical Sciences, Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810-1077

Novel Method for Continuous, In-Situ Measurements of Alkali in Biomass Gasification

 TOPIC:  OCEAN CURRENT ENERGY CAPTURE

Abacus Controls, Inc.
80 Readington Road                             P.O. Box 893
Somerville, NJ 08876-0893

Ocean Current Power Generator

Dehlsen Associates, LLC
7985 Armas Canyon Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93103

Development of a Sustained Ocean Current-Driven Electric Power Generating System

 TOPIC:  THERMOPHOTOVOLTAICS

Amonix, Inc.
3425 Fujita Street
Torrance, CA 90505-4018

A Novel Concept to Achieve High-Packing Density of Solar Cells with High Reliability

ARSECO
2606 Foothill Boulevard
La Cresenta, CA 91214

'On Chip' Smart Sensor Array and Control Teleplatform for Thermophotovoltaic Cell Manufacturing Applications

 TOPIC:  ADVANCED SENSORS AND DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY APPLICATIONS

Weston Geophysical
325 West Main Street
Northboro, MA 01532

Short-Period Surface Waves from Explosions

Yinnel Tech, Inc.
3702 West Sample Street                   Suite 1109
South Bend, IN 46619

Development of Large-Size and Low-Cost Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Single Crystals  for Improved Room-Temperature Radiation Detectors Used for National Security

 TOPIC:  ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR ACTIVE OPTICAL
REMOTE SENSOR SYSTEMS

Princeton Scientific Instruments, Inc.
7 Deer Park Drive
Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852-1921

Infrared Focal Plane Array with Fast Shuttering

Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699

Linear Avalanche Photodiode Detector Arrays for Gated Spectroscopy with Single-Photon Sensitivity

NUCLEAR PHYSICS

 TOPIC:  NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES

Constellation Technology Corporation
7887 Bryan Dairy Road                      Suite 100
Largo, FL 33777

Development of a Large-Area Mercuric Iodide Photodetector for Scintillation Spectroscopy

IntraSpec, Inc.
P.O. Box 4579
Oak Ridge, TN 37831

Segmented, Deep-Sensitive-Depth Silicon Radiation Detectors

Physical Optics Corporation
20600 Gramercy Place
Building 100
Torrance, CA 90501-1821

Micromachined Silicon, Large Area X-Ray Detector

Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699

A Fast, High-Light-Output Scintillator for Gamma Ray and Neutron Detection

 TOPIC:  NUCLEAR PHYSICS ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY

Brookhaven Technology Group, Inc.
120 Lake Avenue South                      Suite 15
Nesconset, NY  11767

A Surface Plasma Ion Source for Production of Heavy Negative Ion Beams

DIANA Hi-Tech, LLC
55 Hiddenledge Rd.
Englewood, NJ 07631

Novel, High-Efficiency and Clean Plasma Focus Radioactive-Beam Ion-Source for Applications in Nuclear Research and Biomedicine

Pavilion Technologies, Inc.
11000 Metric Boulevard                      Unit 700
Austin, TX 78758

Robust, Optimal, Adaptive, System-Idenification & Nonlinear Model-Predictive Control Strategy for Accelerator Feedback Control Systems

Tunnel Dust, Inc.
110 Heritage Place
Seaford, VA 23696

A 600 MegaHertz  Superconducting High-Brightness, High-Current Injector

 TOPIC:  ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS ACCELERATORS

Calabazas Creek Research
20937 Comer Drive
Saratoga, CA 95070-3753

Development of a Three-Dimensional, Finite Element Charged Particle Code with Adaptive Meshing

Omega-P, Inc.
202008 Yale Station                               Suite 100
New Haven, CT 06520

Dielectric Wake Field Resonator Accelerator Module

Tech-X Corporation
5541 Central Avenue                          Suite 135
Boulder, CO 80301

A Cross-Platform Graphical User Interface for the High-Energy Accelerator Design Code MAD-9

 TOPIC:  RADIO FREQUENCY ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS ACCELERATORS AND COLLIDERS

Calabazas Creek Research
20937 Comer Drive
Saratoga, CA 95070-3753

Development of Multiple-Beam Guns for High-Power Radio Frequency Sources for Accelerators and Colliders

FM Technologies, Inc.
10529-B Braddock Road
Fairfax, VA 22032-2236

In-Situ Electron Beam Processing for Radio Frequency Cavities

MacroMetalics, Division of Elcon, Inc. 
1009 Timothy Drive
San Jose, CA 95133-1043

Ultra Low-Cost, Long-Life Driver Traveling Wave Tubes for Future Accelerator Injection Systems

Omega-P, Inc.
202008 Yale Station
Suite 100
New Haven, CT 06520

Plasma Switch for High-Power Active Pulse Compressor

 TOPIC:  HIGH-FIELD SUPERCONDUCTOR AND SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLE COLLIDERS

Alabama Cryogenic Engineering, Inc.
P.O. Box 2470
Huntsville, AL 35804-2470

An Innovative Fabrication Concept for Niobium-Tin Superconducting Wire

Hyper Tech Research, Inc..
110 East Canal Street
Troy, OH  45373

High-Performance Niobium-Tin-Tantalum Superconductors Formed by Mechanical Alloying and Near-Net Shape Tube Filling

MicroCoating Technologies, Inc.
5315 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
Chamblee, GA 30341

Thin Alternatives to Braided Glass Insulation for Low-Temperature Superconducting Wire

Supercon, Inc.
830 Boston Turnpike
Shrewsbury, MA 01545

Cost-Reduction Techniques for Powder-in-Tube Niobium-Tin Superconductors

Superconducting Systems, Inc.
90 Rumford Avenue
Waltham, MA 02453

Flexible Niobium-Tin Cables Suitable to React-then-Wind Approach to Fabricating Accelerator Magnets

 TOPIC:  TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE NEXT GENERATION ELECTRON-POSITRON LINEAR COLLIDER

Applied Pulsed Power, Inc.
Box 1020 Langmuir
95 Brown Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

High Voltage, High-Power, High di/dt, Low-Inductance, Solid State Switch

Champion Research
1116 Elko Drive
Sunnyvale, CA  94089

Vacuum Pump Power Supply Module with Controller Integrated Circuit

Zmation, Inc.
14811 N.E. Airport Way                        Suite 200
Portland, OR 97230

Automated Handling of Ultra Precision Parts

 TOPIC:  HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTORS

Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699

Novel Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for Scintillating Fiber Readout

 TOPIC:  HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DATA ACQUISITION 
AND PROCESSING

Tempest Microsystems
3525 Del Mar Heights Road                 Unit 395
San Diego, CA 92130

Gigabit Data Acquisition Platform for High Energy Physics

 TOPIC:  FUSION PLASMA SCIENCE RESEARCH

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc.
2520 West 237th Street
Torrance, CA 90505-5217

Real-Time Adaptive Control Scheme for Superior Plasma Confinement

NOVA Photonics, Inc.
One Oak Place
Princeton, NJ 8540

Development of MegaHertz Laser-Induced Fluorescence for Visualization of Turbulence

Princeton Scientific Instruments, Inc.
7 Deer Park Drive
Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852-1921

Ultra-High Speed Imaging of Plasma Edge Turbulence

 TOPIC:  ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR FUSION PLASMA EXPERIMENTS

Calabazas Creek Research
20937 Comer Drive
Saratoga, CA 95070-3753

Advanced Design of Quasi-Optical Launchers for Fusion Plasma Heating

Composite Technology Development, Inc.
1505 Coal Creek Drive
Lafayette, CO 80026-2782

Novel Radiation-Resistant Insulation Systems for Fusion Magnets

First Point Scientific, Inc.
5330 Derry Avenue                            Suite J
Agoura Hills, CA 91301-4500

The Closed-Loop, Amplifier-Regulated Driver, a High-Accuracy, Low-Cost Modulator for Heavy Ion Fusion Accelerators

 TOPIC:  ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR FUTURE FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS

HyPerComp, Inc.
31255 Cedar Valley Drive                  Suite 327
Westlake, CA 91362

Advanced Computation Environment for Incompressible  Flows with  Free Surface, MHD and Turbulence Effects in Complex Geometries

TOPIC:  ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY

Expert Microsystems, Inc.
7932 Country Trail Drive                         Suite 1
Orangevale, CA 95662-2120

Multivariate State Estimation Technique (MSET) Modeling for Assured Measurement Integrity

Triton Systems, Inc.
200 Turnpike Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824-4000

Manufacturing of Robust Ceramic/Metal Joints for Alkali Metal Thermal-to-Electric Converters