SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-Speed, Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Award amount
$225,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- zeroK NanoTech Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2018-04-09
- Contract end date
- 2019-01-08
- UEI
- QLZVKKMMQKK6
- Solicitation number
- DE-FOA-0001770
- Topic code
- 24a
Research abstract
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) is an important tool in the study of nanoscale composition of biological materials- For example, nanoscale SIMS has been used successfully to study important processes for bioenergy, such as nutrient transport in the rhizosphere, structural characterization of cell walls, and metabolic pathways in complex systems- Researchers use SIMS to collect high-spatial- resolution maps of the elemental or isotopic composition of nanoscale samples; however, current instrumentation is slow, requiring long data acquisition times and providing limited resolution- This prevents researchers from obtaining the most accurate spatial information- Many of these limitations would be alleviated with a better-performing ion source-
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Plasma-Derived Low Temperature Ion Source
- Plasma-Derived Low Temperature Ion Source
- 24a High-Speed, Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
- High-Speed, NaNoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
- SBIR Phase II: Low Temperature Ion Source for High-Brightness Focused Ion Beams
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- Dynamic Fracture Network Evolution: Monitoring and Characterizing using a Geomechanically Constrained Time-lapsed Windowed Microseismic Imaging
- Ultra-High Frame-Rate Pixelated Direct Electron STEM Detector Topic 24, Subtopic a.
- Development of Ligand-Associated Solid-Liquid Extraction Media System for Separation of High Purity Individual Rare Earth Elements from Coal-based Resources
Research funding history
7 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2024). Reported award amounts total $5,018,714. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Energy, National Science Foundation