Money Keeps Coming. DOLED Office of Science Awards 5 Grants

Brodrick 2016 LFI.jpgNew SBIR Phase I Grants Awarded for SSL Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded four Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants and one Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant for projects targeting critical advances in solid-state lighting (SSL) technology. The five FY17 Phase I Release 1 grants will explore the technical merit and commercial potential of different innovative concepts or technologies that are expected to contribute to the achievement of the price and performance goals described in DOE’s SSL R&D Plan. 

The Phase I recipients working on SSL are:
  • Pixelligent Technologies LLC (Baltimore, MD), selected for its application of a novel and unique three-dimensional gradient index layer to improve the light extraction of OLED devices.
  • Lumisyn, LLC (Rochester, NY), selected for its development of unique nanocrystal-based silicone films with high quantum efficiencies and low optical scattering losses.
  • OLEDWorks, LLC (Rochester, NY), selected for its development of a novel substrate and encapsulation process that will significantly reduce the cost of OLED lighting.
  • SC Solutions, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA), selected for developing an innovative control technology for improved within-wafer temperature uniformity in the MOCVD process used to manufacture many LEDs.
  • MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, IL), selected for improving the performance of phosphide-based red and amber LEDs by engineering the composition and combination of semiconductor materials.
To learn more about these awards, visit the DOE website.

The SBIR-STTR program seeks to increase the participation of small businesses in federally sponsored innovative and novel research and development. To learn more about this program, visit https://science.energy.gov/sbir/. 
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Jim Brodrick

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