Patent • #9,276,382. Quantum-size-controlled photoelectrochemical (QSC-PEC) etching provides a new route to the precision fabrication of epitaxial semiconductor nanostructures in the sub-10-nm size regime. For example, quantum dots (QDs) can be QSC-PEC-etched from epitaxial InGaN thin films using narrowband laser photoexcitation, and the QD sizes (and hence bandgaps and photoluminescence wavelengths) are...
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Quenching of Unincorporated Amplification Signal Reporters (QUASR)
Featured Opportunity • Sandia’s QUASR modification to LAMP helps satisfy the requirements for a simple, robust, and inexpensive point-of-care deployed diagnostic device Rapid changes in how the world must react to pandemics has led to an unprecedented effort to develop rapid, easy to interpret point-of-care tests that meet the World Health Organization (WHO)...

Radar & THz
Technology Area • The Radar & Terahertz (THz) technology area contains advances in detection and imaging using THz waves developed for security, biomedical, and communications applications. Sandia has been at the forefront of new radar breakthroughs for more than 30 years, including historic developments in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). This technology area...

Radar Design
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Radar echo processing with partitioned de-ramp
Patent • #8,400,349. The spurious-free dynamic range of a wideband radar system is increased by apportioning de-ramp processing across analog and digital processing domains. A chirp rate offset is applied between the received waveform and the reference waveform that is used for downconversion to the intermediate frequency (IF) range. The chirp rate...
Radar transmit bandwidth augmentation
Patent • #12061249. Various technologies pertaining to forming a very high instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) radar signal based upon several radio frequency (RF) signals that have sub-bands of the frequency band of the radar signal are described herein. A radar system is configured to address local oscillator leakage across multiple transmit channels of...
Radar velocity determination using direction of arrival measurements
Patent • #9,846,229. The various technologies presented herein relate to utilizing direction of arrival (DOA) data to determine various flight parameters for an aircraft A plurality of radar images (e.g., SAR images) can be analyzed to identify a plurality of pixels in the radar images relating to one or more ground targets....
Radial Particle-Based Terrestrial Thermocline for High Temperature Thermal Storage
Patent • #11,549,761.
Radiation Detection
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Radiation detector using a graphene amplifier layer
Patent • #11,287,536. A radiation field is detected or imaged using one or more junction devices in which a two-dimensional conductor layer is capacitively coupled to a semiconductor absorber layer. In the junction devices, pixel-level amplification and read-out are accomplished through the photogating of the devices by absorption within the absorber layer...
Radiation source with shaped emission
Patent • #6,563,907. Employing a source of radiation, such as an electric discharge source, that is equipped with a capillary region configured into some predetermined shape, such as an arc or slit, can significantly improve the amount of flux delivered to the lithographic wafers while maintaining high efficiency. The source is particularly...
Radiation-hardened transistor and integrated circuit
Patent • #7,298,010. A composite transistor is disclosed for use in radiation hardening a CMOS IC formed on an SOI or bulk semiconductor substrate. The composite transistor has a circuit transistor and a blocking transistor connected in series with a common gate connection. A body terminal of the blocking transistor is connected...
Radical-ion battery and operation thereof
Patent • #10,879,552. A electrochemical storage device, referred to herein as a radical-ion battery, is described. The radical-ion battery includes an electrolyte, first free radicals, and second free radicals, wherein the first free radicals and the second free radicals are different chemical species. The radical-ion battery also includes a separator that allows...
Radio Frequency (RF) Systems
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Radioactive waste repository when contacted by water provides borates that absorb neutrons
Patent • #11721448. A container holds radioactive material. A sub-criticality controller protects the radioactive material from reaching a criticality from contact with the water. The sub-criticality controller includes a metallic composition having at least one metal component and at least one borate component bonded to the at least one metal component. The...
Radioimaging for real-time tracking of high-voltage breakdown
Patent • #11808800. An interferometric radioimager provides real-time, high-fidelity radioimaging of high voltage breakdown (HVB) both internal and external to electrical components at sub-nanosecond and sub-millimeter resolution and has an ability to resolve multiple/spatially-extensive HVB simultaneously. Therefore, radioimaging can be used to screen for early life weakness/failure and enable non-destructive screening of...
Randomization of dangling nodes in a digital circuit design to mitigate hardware trojans
Patent • #10,706,181. Described herein are various technologies pertaining to randomizing logic associated with dangling nodes in a digital circuit design. A dangling node is an input to or output from a logic gate in the digital circuit design that is identified as not impacting a desired output of the digital circuit...
Rapid Automated Point-of-Care System (RapiDx)
Featured Opportunity • The Rapid, Automated Point-of-Care System (RapiDx) developed by Sandia National Laboratories is a portable diagnostic instrument. RapiDx quickly measures--with high sensitivity--disease and toxin biomarkers in human biological samples (e.g., blood, saliva, urine) so that patient ailments can be quickly diagnosed and treated. RapiDx is an ideal instrument for point-of-care diagnostics...

Rapid Electropulsing Method
Featured Opportunity • A rapid electropulsing method to reduce chemical microsegregation in metallic additively manufactured (AM) parts comparable to conventional heat-treatment techniques in a fraction of the processing time For many applications, the promise of rapid development and fabrication through the additive manufacture (AM) of ready-to-use, geometrically complex parts cannot be realized due...

Rapid synthesis of gallium alloys
Patent • #10,724,120. The ability to generate complex gallium alloys using metal amides, Ga(NR.sub.2).sub.3 and M(NR.sub.2).sub.n, is easily accomplished by heating the two metal amides in predetermined ratios. The product can be isolated as Ga.sub.xM.sub.y where x and y can vary.
Rapidly tunable, narrow-band infrared filter arrays
Patent • #10,393,933. Tunable filters can use Fano metasurface designs having extremely narrow transmission bands. The Fano metasurface can comprise dielectric or semiconductor materials and can produce transmission bands with quality factors well in excess of 1000--at least a factor of 50 greater than typical metamaterial-based infrared resonances. Numerical simulations of these...
RAPTR N95: Rapidly Producible, Reusable N95 Respirator
Featured Opportunity • Sandia National Laboratories in collaboration with Mayo Clinic has developed a rapidly producible, reusable N95 respirator mask designed for medical use Significant shortages in the supply and availability of medical-grade personal protective equipment (PPE), specifically N95 respirators, have been a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to inexpensive, reusable,...

Rare Earth Element Separation Using Mesoporous Materials
Featured Opportunity • A simple and more efficient method for separating rare earth elements using mesoporous materials that eliminates hazardous solvents and complex, multi-step processes Rare earth elements (REEs) possess unique optical and magnetic properties that are critical for next-generation electronics and emerging technologies. In contrast with trace metals such as copper and...
Rare-earth tantalates and niobates suitable for use as nanophosphors
Patent • #8,585,928. A family of rare-earth Group 5 oxides, where the Group 5 oxide is a niobate or tantalate. The rare-earth Group 5 oxides can be doped with suitable emitter ions to form nanophosphors.
Rarefied piezometric uptake apparatus and method for measuring gaseous uptake
Patent • #11698315. A rarefied piezometric uptake apparatus and method for measuring gaseous uptake for large solid samples with little or no sample preparation. Past systems and methods require extensive sample preparation. The method includes providing a rarefied piezometric uptake apparatus having a dosing chamber and uptake chamber in an improved selective...
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