Patent • #US10763000B1. The present invention relates to metal coatings and methods thereof. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to ultra-low wear noble metal alloys, such as for use in electrical contact coatings.
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Startup Design Features for Supercritical Power Conversion Systems
Featured Opportunity • Sandia National Laboratories has created solutions to startup flow issues in supercritical conversion systems. The Supercritical Brayton Cycle is a power conversion system that is undergoing extensive testing and advancements at Sandia Labs. The brayton cycle system has the ability to achieve higher efficiency and more cost effect power conversion...
Startup-Friendly Technologies
Page • Several of Sandia's technological advancements are suitable for licensing by startups and entrepreneurs: Brain-Targeting Nanobodies Nanobodies capable of penetrating the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) can act... Photovoltaic Prognostics Photovoltaic (PV) System Monitoring Overview Residential, commercial, and utility-scale photovoltaic... Tinker Tailoring Lignin A method to generate oxidized lignin with specified carboxylic acid......
Stateless and stateful implementations of faithful execution
Patent • #US8914648B1. A faithful execution system includes system memory, a target processor, and protection engine. The system memory stores a ciphertext including value fields and integrity fields. The value fields each include an encrypted executable instruction and the integrity fields each include an encrypted integrity value for determining whether a corresponding...
Stationary phase deposition based on onium salts
Patent • #US7314505B1. Onium salt chemistry can be used to deposit very uniform thickness stationary phases on the wall of a gas chromatography column. In particular, the stationary phase can be bonded to non-silicon based columns, especially microfabricated metal columns. Non-silicon microfabricated columns may be manufactured and processed at a fraction of...
Storyboard method of end-user programming with natural language confirmation
Patent • #US8589821B1. A technique for end-user programming includes populating a template with graphically illustrated actions and then invoking a command to generate a screen element based on the template. The screen element is rendered within a computing environment and provides a mechanism for triggering execution of a sequence of user actions....
Strained layer superlattice focal plane array having a planar structure
Patent • #US8293566B1. An infrared focal plane array (FPA) is disclosed which utilizes a strained-layer superlattice (SLS) formed of alternating layers of InAs and InxGa1-xSb with 0≰x≰0.5 epitaxially grown on a GaSb substrate. The FPA avoids the use of a mesa structure to isolate each photodetector element and instead uses impurity-doped regions...
Strained-layer superlattice focal plane array having a planar structure
Patent • #US7755079B2. An infrared focal plane array (FPA) is disclosed which utilizes a strained-layer superlattice (SLS) formed of alternating layers of InAs and InxGa1−xSb with 0≰x≰0.5 epitaxially grown on a GaSb substrate. The FPA avoids the use of a mesa structure to isolate each photodetector element and instead uses impurity-doped regions...
Stress-Induced Fabrication of Nanomaterials
Featured Opportunity • A simple, efficient approach for tuning and fabricating novel nanomaterial architectures with breakthrough properties using mechanical pressure Nanomaterials possess shape and size-dependent properties for diverse applications such as sensing, optics, and catalysis. Currently, nanomaterials are synthesized using chemical methods that require specialized processing conditions, expensive reactors and requirements, added purification...
Stress-tuned conductor-polymer composite for use in sensors
Patent • #US8562878B1. A method for making a composite polymeric material with electrical conductivity determined by stress-tuning of the conductor-polymer composite, and sensors made with the stress-tuned conductor-polymer composite made by this method. Stress tuning is achieved by mixing a miscible liquid into the polymer precursor solution or by absorbing into the...
Structural metamaterials comprising interpenetrating lattices
Patent • #US11826952B2. Multi-body interpenetrating lattices comprise two or more lattices that interlace or interpenetrate through the same volume without any direct physical connection to each other, wherein energy transfer is controlled by surface interactions. As a result, multifunctional or composite-like responses can be achieved by additive manufacturing of the interpenetrating lattices,...
Structure function monitor
Patent • #US8103045B2. Methods and apparatus for a structure function monitor provide for generation of parameters characterizing a refractive medium. In an embodiment, a structure function monitor acquires images of a pupil plane and an image plane and, from these images, retrieves the phase over an aperture, unwraps the retrieved phase, and...
Structured wafer for device processing
Patent • #US8895364B1. A structured wafer that includes through passages is used for device processing. Each of the through passages extends from or along one surface of the structured wafer and forms a pattern on a top surface area of the structured wafer. The top surface of the structured wafer is bonded...
Structured wafer for device processing
Patent • #US8729673B1. A structured wafer that includes through passages is used for device processing. Each of the through passages extends from or along one surface of the structured wafer and forms a pattern on a top surface area of the structured wafer. The top surface of the structured wafer is bonded...
Structures including a measurement coating and methods of forming the same
Patent • #US11022582B1. A structure includes a substrate and a coating applied over the substrate, the coating containing particles sized between 30 and 250 micrometers. A proportion of the particles to the carrier is between 40 and 70 by volume percentage. In response to excitation of the structure by a controllable excitation...
Structures including a measurement coating and methods of forming the same
Patent • #US12196711B2. A structure includes a substrate and a coating applied over the substrate, the coating containing particles sized between 30 and 250 micrometers. A proportion of the particles to the carrier is between 40 and 70 by volume percentage. In response to excitation of the structure by a controllable excitation...
Sub-wavelength antenna enhanced bilayer graphene tunable photodetector
Patent • #US9293627B1. The integration of bilayer graphene with an absorption enhancing sub-wavelength antenna provides an infrared photodetector capable of real-time spectral tuning without filters at nanosecond timescales.
Subaperture clutter filter with CFAR signal detection
Patent • #US9429644B1. The various technologies presented herein relate to the determination of whether a received signal comprising radar clutter further comprises a communication signal. The communication signal can comprise of a preamble, a data symbol, communication data, etc. A first portion of the radar clutter is analyzed to determine a radar...
Subharmonic power line carrier based island detection systems and methods
Patent • #US10326279B2. Systems and methods for identifying an island condition in a power distribution system and disconnecting distributed generators in the case of islanding. The systems and methods are used to enable reliable detection of island formation with high false-trip immunity, for any combination of distributed energy resources, and for distributed...
Substitutional Tuning of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Compression
Featured Opportunity • An alternative to high-pressure hydrogen compression that can isolate thousands of new metal hydride compositions for hydrogen storage applications Hydrogen compression is one of the key components of a hydrogen-based economy. Conventional mechanical hydrogen compressors have a few disadvantages including low energy efficiency, insufficient reliability, high operating costs, probability of...
Suction nozzle
Patent • #US5368560A_. A suction nozzle for attachment to a partial vacuum source for removing smoke and liquid from a surgical area during laser or electrocautery surgery. The nozzle includes a cylindrical inner tube fixedly and concentrically attached within a cylindrical outer tube with the distal end of the inner tube extending...
Suction-recirculation device for stabilizing particle flows within a solar powered solid particle receiver
Patent • #US8109265B1. A suction-recirculation device for stabilizing the flow of a curtain of blackened heat absorption particles falling inside of a solar receiver with an open aperture. The curtain of particles absorbs the concentrated heat from a solar mirror array reflected up to the receiver on a solar power tower. External...
Super resolution and fast surface B-field imaging using an NV-diamond
Patent • #US12276610B1. The present invention is directed to devices and systems for rapidly producing high resolution images of magnetic fields in a sample. The devices and systems employ diamond chips with color centers that fluoresce in the presence of magnetic fields. The high resolution is due to the use of one...
Superconductivity device comprising a phononic crystal
Patent • #US11424400B1. The invention is directed to a device and method to engineer the superconducting transition width by suppressing the phonon populations responsible for the Cooper-pair decoherence below the superconducting transition temperature via phononic bandgap engineering. The device uses phononic crystals to engineer a phononic frequency gap that suppresses the decohering...
Superlattice photodetector having improved carrier mobility
Patent • #US9929293B1. In a superlattice (SL) photodetector, each period of the SL includes first and second semiconductor layers having different compositions, at least one of which comprises indium arsenide (InAs). At least one of these two semiconductor layers has a graded composition. In embodiments, the first semiconductor layer comprises InAs and...
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