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SBIR Phase II: Batch Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Metallic AFM Probes
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Woman-Owned: NoMinority-Owned: NoHUBZone-Owned: No
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Fiscal Year: 2011Title: SBIR Phase II: Batch Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Metallic AFM ProbesAgency: NSFContract: 1058576Award Amount: $500,000.00
Abstract:
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a low-cost manufacturing process to produce conductive and high-aspect-ratio probes for atomic force microscopy (AFM). A new fabrication tool with high-precision alignment and in-situ process monitoring sensors will be designed and constructed. The probes (so-called NeedleProbes) will be fabricated in a batch process that can pattern an entire wafer of conventional AFM probes with freestanding metal alloy nanowire tips. The broader/commercial impacts of this project will be the potential to provide affordable, conductive and high-aspect-ratio AFM probes that would be well suited in biology for cell scanning and probing, and materials science for imaging of ultra-high-aspect-ratio structures, and electronic measurement of nanostructures. The current fabrication method of AFM probes is a serial process that produces approximately five probes per hour. The advancement in this project toward batch fabrication is expected to extend far beyond the current fabrication method and result in a price reduction of the probes by a factor of 5.Small Business Information at Submission:NaugaNeedles LLC
11300 Decimal Dr. Louisville Louisville, KY 40299-2444EIN/Tax ID: 113817627DUNS: N/ANumber of Employees:Woman-Owned: NoMinority-Owned: NoHUBZone-Owned: No
Award Information
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Agency: National Science Foundation |
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Program Year/Program: 2011 / SBIR |
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Agency Tracking Number: 1058576 |
Solicitation Year: 2011 |
Solicitation Topic Code: Phase II |
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