SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Compact, High-power Terahertz Amplifier for DNP-NMR and EPR Spectroscopy
Award amount
$210,561Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- BRIDGE 12 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- KU5VWM3D5TJ8
- Solicitation number
- PA13-234
- Topic code
- NIGMS
Research abstract
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop a compact, cost-effective Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier at 263 GHz with 50 W of peak power, 5 W of continuous wave power and 5% instantaneous bandwidth for application in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) enhanced solid-state and solution-state NMR and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. With DNP, the inherently small signal intensities in a NMR experiment can be enhanced by up to two orders of magnitude. This significantly increased overall sensitivity will be highly beneficial for analytical applications of NMR spectroscopy as well as in the structure determination of bio- macromolecules using NMR methods. Currently, DNP is performed with either low power solid-state sources(whose output power is limited to a few mW at frequencies gt300 GHz) and at low temperatures in the range of 20-30 K (to compensate for low microwave power) or with large, gyrotron systems which can generate 50 W of power. Gyrotrons are expensive and d
Technology keywords
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Research funding history
38 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2025). Reported award amounts total $18,895,835. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation