11/5/2007
NIST Announces 2 SBIR Solicitations
by Mildred Holley, Technology Programs Manager
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued two pre-solicitation notices on October 22 that identify the research topics that will be included in its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) solicitations for Phase I proposals.
This year, NIST has a set of SBIR Technology Transfer (TT) topics in a solicitation separate from its normal announcement. The TT solicitation’s focus is on NIST-developed technologies that require further research to see them commercialized. Solicitations should be available at http://tsapps.nist.gov/ts_sbir/default.asp on November 8.
NIST funds Phase I projects at amounts up to $90,000. November 8 is the expected date of release for these solicitations. Proposals are expected to be due no later than January 24, 2008.
The research topics in the regular FY 2008 solicitation are:
1. Efficient Low-Dark-Count Detector for Photon Counting
2. Multiple Polytype SiC Nanowire Fabrication Process and Equipment Development
3. Data Management and Visualization Techniques for Improving Cyber Security
4. Quantitative Network Security Analysis High Power
5. Mid-Infrared Fiber Supercontinuum Light Source
6. Digital Signal Processing for 1 to 10 MHz X-ray Event Streams High Spectral Purity
7. Millimeter-Wavelength (W-band) Oscillator
8. Contactless Conductivity Detector for Temperature Gradient Focusing
9. Resistance Bridges for High-Accuracy Thermometry
10. Compact, Frequency-Stable, and Efficient High-Power Laser Sources
11. One PicoTesla Magnetic Field Detection by Magnetoresistive Sensors for Homeland Security
12. U.S. Extreme Extratropical and Thunderstorm Wind Climatology
13. Validation tools for OWL Based Supply Chain Integration
14. Shortwave Infrared Camera for Thermal Imaging
15. Barrier Fabrics for Fire Safe Furniture and Mattresses
16. Innovative Fire Measurements
17. Cryogenics for Kilopixel Sensor Arrays
18. Digital Pulse Processing for Multiplexed Microcalorimeter Arrays
19. Enacting Workflow using Role Based Access Control
20. Massively Parallel High Temperature Probe Card for Wafer- Level Reliability Testing
21. Multiple Contact Nano-Probes for GHz to THz Electrical and Optical Characterization
22. Time Synchronization of Wireless Sensor Networks
23. Wavelength Conversion Single-Photon-Detector for Telecom Wavelength Transmission
24. Broadband Reflective Optical Coatings with Tailored Dispersion
25. High-Resolution Solid Etalon Spectral Dispersers
26. High-Bandwidth, Low-Noise Photodetectors for Precise Timing
27. Elevated Temperature Quartz Crystal Microbalances for Nanoanalysis
28. Innovative Residential Fire Detection
29. Multijunction Thermal Converters for Precision Radio- Frequency Metrology
30. Perfect Quantum Efficiency Matched Pair Photodiodes
31. Low-Loss in-Fiber Optical filter at 860 nm
32. 3D Laser Interferometer for Nanometrology
NIST technologies that are topics for the Technology Transfer program solicitation are:
1. High Spectral Purity
2. Millimeter-Wavelength (W-band) Oscillator
3. Technology Transfer of Scanning Magnetic Field Imaging
4. Automated Counterflow Gradient Electrofocusing Apparatus
5. Microcalorimeter Alpha Spectrometers for Analysis of Nuclear Material
6. Improved Ionic Current Amplifier Requirements for Enhanced Polymer Detection and Characterization with Single Nanopores
7. Large Area Domain Engineered Thin Film Ferroelectric Pyroelectric Detectors
8. Refreshable Locking Tactile Image Array for Accessibility
9. Rugged locking tactile image array for security
10. Hyperspectral Image Projector
11. Electro-Mechanical Component Library Toolset Based on Open Standards
12. Gigahertz repetition-rate fiber laser frequency comb
13. Integration of High Precision 6DOF Micropositioners with Microscopes for Micrometrology Applications
14. Integration of Cable-Based Stewart Platforms and Automated Guided Vehicle Systems for Manufacturing and Material Handling
15. Blocked-Impurity-Band Si Photodetector for FTIR Spectrophotometry.
Arkansas entrepreneurs and researchers interested in learning more about this or other SBIR/STTR opportunities are invited to contact Mildred Holley at lcfine@ualr.edu, 501.683.7700 or 800.862.2040 (AR only).
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