NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER SBIR/STTR SUCCESS STORIES
Advanced Ceramics
Corporation (ACC), Lakewood, OH
- Durable Interface Coatings for Ceramic
Matrix Composites
Advanced Projects
Research, Inc., La Verne, CA
- Enhanced Combustion Pulsejet Engine (ECPE)
for Mach 0 to 3 Applications
A&P Technology,
Inc.
- Affordable Composite Fan Case with Damage Tolerant
Braided Fiber Architecture
ATK Space Systems
(formerly AEC-Able Engineering Co.)
- Advanced Flexible Thin Film PV (FTFPV)
Ultra Flex Solar Array System
ATK Space Systems
(formerly AEC-Able Engineering Co.)
- Stretched Lens Array SquareRigger (SLASR)
AI Ware, Inc. (acquired by Computer Associates International,
Inc.)
- Design of Experiments Module
Advanced Research and
Applications Corporation
- Large Area Detector for Radiographic
Measurements
Aerometrics, Inc.
-
Simultaneous Measurement of Temperature,
Size, and Velocity of Drops in Sprays
Aerometrics, Inc.
-
Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer
Aerometrics/TSI, Inc.
-Advanced Instrumentation for Aircraft Icing
Research
Alpha Star Corporation
-Concurrent probalistic
simulation of high temperature composite structural responses
Alpha
Star Corporation
- GENOA/Progressive Failure Analysis
(GENOA/PFA) Software System
Applied Material Technologies, Inc.
- STABLCOR Printed Circuit Boards
Applied Research Associates, Inc.
- Portable Parallel Stochastic Optimization
for Aeropropulsion Component Design
ATK Space Systems (formerly AEC-Able Engineering Company, Inc.) Goleta, CA
- Advanced Flexible Thin Film PV (FTFPV) Ultra Flex Solar Array System
- Stretched Lens Array SquareRigger (SLASR)
Aurora Flight
Sciences Corporation
- Single Lever Power Control For General Aviation And Unmanned Aircraft
Automative Resources, Inc.
- The SmartPlug
Catalytic Ignition System
Boston
Applied Technologies
- Ferroelectric Films Grown on Ferrite
Substrates
Brimrose
Corporation of America
- Novel Photorefractive Material ZnTe:V for Optical Processing
Busek Co.
Inc.
- MicroNewton Thruster (MNT)
CFD Research
Corporation
- Unstructured Density Based CFD Methodology
for Gas Turbine Combustor Applications
CFD Research
Corporation
- Low-NOx Fuel-Injector for Aircraft-Engine
Combustors
CFD Research
Corporation
- A Probability Density Function (PDF) Method
for Turbulent Reacting Flow
CFD Research
Corporation
- Microscopic and Macroscopic Modeling of
Layer Growth Kinetics and Morphology in Vapor Deposition Processing
Ceramic
Composites, Inc.
- Oxidation Resistant Rocket Thrusters for
High Performance Propellants
Cirrus
Design Corporation
- Low Cost Electromagnetic De-Icer for Natural Laminar Flow Airfoils
Clever Fellows Innovation Consortium, Inc.
- Alternator and Suspension for Free Piston
Stirling Engines
Conax
Buffalo Corporation
- Blackbody High Temperature Optical Sensor
Containerless Research, Inc.
- High Temperature Thermophysical
Property Measurements in Microgravity
Continuum Dynamics,
Inc.
- Computational Method for Aeroelastic Problems in Turbomachinery
Cox
& Company, Inc.
- Economical Hybrid Anti-Icing System
Creare,
Inc.
- A Capacitive Void Fraction Instrument for
Two-Phase Flow in Microgravity
Creare,
Inc.
- Unstructured Adapted Meshes
Creare,
Inc.
- Motran-Multiphase System Simulator
Creare, Inc.
- Plasma-Sprayed Thin-Film Selective Emitters
Cree Research, Inc.
- High Temperature, Silicon Carbide, Power Thyristor
Cree Research, Inc.
- High Temperature, Silicon Carbide, Power
MOSFET
Daat
Research Corporation
- Advanced CFD Tools for Designing Combustion
Systems & Material Processing
e beam, Inc. (formerly FDE, Inc.)
- Oxide Cathodes
e beam, Inc. (formerly FDE, Inc.)
- A Low Power Dispenser Cathode Assembly for
Space Communications
EMC Technology, Inc.
- Passive Temperature Compensating Attenuator
Electrochem, Inc.
- High Efficiency Proton Exchange Membrane
Fuel Cell
Energy Science
Laboratories, Inc.
- Composite Regeneration for Stirling Engine
Entech,
Inc.
- Fresnel Lens Photovoltaic Concentrator
Array
Epsilon
Lambda Electronics Corporation
- RF components for satellite communications
system using insular guides
Essential
Research, Inc.
- Ultra-High-Efficiency, Monolithic,
Dual-Junction Solar Cells
Expert
Microsystems, Inc.
- Real-Time Sensor Validation
Fideris,
Inc. (formerly Lynntech, Inc.)
- Novel Processing Technology for Electronic
Conducting Polymers
Fluent, Inc.
- Fluid-Structure Interaction Using
Unstructured Meshes
Fluent, Inc. (former
Fluid Dynamics, Inc.)
- Numerical Simulation of Transport Processes
Foster-Miller, Inc.
- Near Hermetic Packaging Technology for MMIC
Devices
Foster-Miller, Inc.
- YAG Reinforcement Preforms
for CMCs
Giner,
Inc.
- Novel Electrodes for Hydrogen/Bromine
Battery
Global Aircraft
Corporation
- Quasi-Constant Speed Fixed-Pitch Composite
Propellers
Hittite
Microwave Corporation
- Millimeter Converters for Satellite
Communications
Hyper-Therm
High-Temperature Composites, Inc.
- High Oxygen Affinity Doping of Boron
Nitride for Tough, Durable SiC/SiC Composites
Infinia
Corporation
- Dynamically Balanced Multiple-Converter
Stirling Power System
Infinia
Corporation
- Stirling Convertor for a Radiosotope Power System
Innovative Dynamics, Inc.
- Ice Detection Sensor System
Innovative Dynamics, Inc.
- Smart Coatings for In-Situ Monitoring of
Engine Components
Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc.
- Detecting the Onset of Fire in an Aircraft
by Employing Correlation Spectroscopy
International
Solar Electric Technology
- Light-Weight Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells
for Space Applications
Iowa
Thin Film Technologies, Inc.
- Flexible, Lightweight, Amorphous, Silicon
Solar Cells Tuned for Air Mass Zero (AMO) Spectrum
JX
Crystals, Inc.
- 30-Percent Efficient, Tandem Solar Cells
for a Line-Focus, Photovoltaic Array
K-Technology
Corporation
- High Performance Space Radiator
Kopin Corporation
- High Volume Metal Organic Chemical Vapor
Deposition (MOCVD) Device Water Production
Kulite Semiconductor
Products, Inc.
- 6H-SiC Pressure Sensors for High
Temperature Applications
Lambda
Research, Inc.
- Surface Enhancement for Improved Fatigue
Life of Superalloys at Engine Temperatures
Litecom,
Inc.
- Fiber Optic Cable Feedthrough
and Hermetic Sealing for Aerospace Environment
Makel
Engineering, Inc.
- Compact Low Cost Hazardous Gas Detection
System
Makel
Engineering, Inc.
- Robust Exhaust Gas Sensing System Using
Advanced Thin Film Chemical Sensors
ManTech SRS Technologies, Inc. (formerly SRS Technologies), Huntsville, AL
- Deployable Collectors for Advanced Space Power and Propulsion Systems
- Large Aperture Thin Film Antenna Development, Fabrication and Testing
Materials
& Electrochemical Research Corporation
- Advanced Electrode Materials for
Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery
Materials
& Electrochemical Research Corporation
- Processing of Metal Matrix Composites with
Controlled Microstructures
Maverick
Corporation
- Safe Polyimides for Low-Cost Processing of
High-Temperature Composites
Metadyne,
Inc.
- Manufacturing of Refractory Metal
Components
Metal Matrix Cast Composites, Inc.
-
Pressure Infiltration Casting of Superalloy
Composites
Microwave
Monolithics, Inc.
- High Efficiency, Low Cost Monolithic RF
Module for SARSAT Distress Beacons
Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc.
- High Temperature Foil Thrust Bearing
Moller International,
Inc.
- Special Coatings in a Rotary Engine
NASTEC, Inc.
- High Temperature Wave Bearing Technology
Neocera,
Inc.
- Microwave-Compatible Superconducting Films
Nielsen
Engineering & Research, Inc.
- Unsteady Triangular Mesh/Navier-Stokes Method for Aerodynamics of Aircraft with Ice
Accretion
Orbital Technologies Corporation
- Metalized Cryogen for Advanced Hybrid Engines
Penn
Laboratories, Inc.
- Innovative Laser Furnace
Penn
Laboratories, Inc.
- Laser Float-Zone Process Improvements
Physical
Sciences, Inc.
- Arc Reduction Procedures for Solar Cells
Physical
Sciences, Inc.
- Electrocatalysts for High Efficiency Solid Polymer
Electrolyte Fuel Cell
Power
Technology South Company
- Pulse Power Thyristor
(PPTs) for Aerospace
Precision Combustion, Inc.
- Catalytic Ignition for Rotary Combustion
Engines
Precision Combustion, Inc.
- A Novel Approach to Catalytic Combustion
Princeton Optronics
- Epitaxial Lift-Off GaAs on
Diamond For High Power Devices
Program
Development Company
- Turbo with Automatic Zoning (GridPro)
Research
International, Inc.
- Solid State Micromachined
Pump
Rhenium
Alloys, Inc.
- An Alternative Method of Producing Rhenium
Combustion Chambers
Rotordynamics-Seal
Research, Inc.
- Nonlinear Magnetic Bearing Software and
Controller
SI
Diamond Technology, Inc.
- Autonomous Leak Detector for Orbiting
Spacecraft
SOL-3 Resources, Inc.
- Gas Turbine Combustor for Low Pattern
Factor and Low NOx Emission
SPRL,
LLC (former Gallia, Inc.)
- Application of GaS
in the Passivation of GaAs and Related Alloys
SRS Technologies
-
Deployable Collectors for Advanced Space
Power and Propulsion Systems
Sicom, Inc.
- Innovative High Speed Modem For Satellite Communications
Southwest
Sciences, Inc.
- Near-Infrared Diode Laser Microgravity
Combustion Diagnostic
Southwest
Sciences, Inc.
- Wavelength Agile External Cavity Diode
Laser
Space
Power, Inc.
- Power Processing for Electrical Propulsion
Spire
Corporation
- Indium Phosphide
Solar Cells on Silicon Substrates
Spire
Corporation
- Oxidation Resistant Ti-6Al-4V-SiC Composite
Materials by Ion-Beam Processing
Srico, Inc.
- Integrated Optical Voltage Measurement
System
Structural
Analysis Technologies, Inc.
- Autodesign
Sunpower,
Inc.
- Measuring Reversing Flow Pressure Drop in
Stirling Engine Heat Exchangers
Sunpower,
Inc.
- High Efficiency, Long Life, Low Mass
Stirling Engine for Low Power Applications
Synchrony,
Inc.
- Magnetic Bearing System for Gas Turbine
Engine
TecStar,
Inc.
- 26 Percent Efficient, Triple Junction
Cascade Space PV Solar Cells
Technology
Management, Inc.
- Regenerative Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Technology Development
Technology
Management, Inc.
- Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems Technology
The
Rejen Company
- The Regenerated Diesel Engine
TiNi
Alloy Company
- A Low-Cost, Compact, Non-Explosive
Pin-Puller for Aerospace Applications
Transmission
Technology, Inc.
- Self-Aligning Bearingless
Planetary - SABP
Triton
Systems, Inc.
- Composite Materials for Lightweight EMI
Shielding
Ultramet
-
Lightweight Structural Foams from Ceramic
Materials
Ultramet
- High Temperature Oxidation-Resistant
Thruster Materials
Ultramet
- High-Temperature Turbine Blades
Vigyan,
Inc.
- WINCOMM Project Pilot Weather Advisor
WebCore Technologies, Inc.
- Design and Manufacture of Lightweight
Composite Fan Case
Zin Technologies, Inc., Brookpark, OH
- Compact Wireless BioMetric Monitoring and Real Time Processing System
