SBIR/STTR Research Award
CNT-Based Gas Ionizer to Replace Radioactive Sources
Award amount
$128,813Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- APPLIED NANOTECH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- HG7NJV44ZM65
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H-SB06.1-010
Research abstract
In the recent past, government agencies from the US and other foreign countries have recognized the problem of orphaned radioactive sources worldwide. Such sources pose a security risk in the form of potential material for a ¿dirty bomb¿ or other illicit applications. We propose to replace Ni-63 beta emitters with a carbon nanotube based electric field ionization source. This CNT-based ionization source will be useful for a whole class of devices that currently use radioactive materials for gas ionizers. This CNT gas ionizer will be a nearly one-for-one replacement for the Ni-63, requiring only minor additional driver electronics to operate the source. The CNT ionizer will operate over a wide temperature range (-50 ºC to +100 ºC is expected). The source can be designed to fit almost any size and shape needed for the analytical instrument.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- CNT-Based Gas Ionizer to Replace Radioactive Sources
- Development of a Non-Nuclear Soil Density Gauge to Replace Nuclear Density Gauges
- High Speed Non Ionizing Terahertz Measurement System to Replace Nuclear Gages
- Development of a Non-Nuclear Soil Density Gauge to Eliminate the Need for Nuclear Density Gauges
Research funding history
80 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2025). Reported award amounts total $27,382,369. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services