Passive Electronic Components from Nanostructured Materials

41063 Angstrom Devices, Inc. Passive electronic components play a critical role in ensuring efficient and reliable generation, delivery, and use of energy. Existing passive components were discovered a few decades ago and are all based on bulk material properties. Although miniaturization of these components have enabled dramatic performance improvements, it is increasingly envisioned that fundamental breakthroughs would be necessary to satisfy the future needs of our nation's energy infrastructure. Nanostructured materials - materials whose domain sizes have been confined to dimensions less than 100 nm - potentially offer such a breakthrough because of the unique combination of non-bulk like properties they exhibit. This project will investigate, develop, and commercialize passive electronic components from nanostructured materials. Phase I will establish feasibility by demonstrating the use of passive components prepared from nanostructured materials. Phase II will optimize the proposed technology, develop prototype devices, and field test the devices with lead customers. Anticipated Results/Potential Commercial Applications as described by the awardee: Potential applications of passive electronic components include: heaters, transformers, HF coils, power supplies, inverters, converters, spike suppression, EMI filtering, and ignition coils. Furthermore, the proposed technology may help enable interface components for the next generation molecular electronics industry.