Birck Nanotechnology Center

BNC-affiliated grants and contracts

Energy Conversion & Heat Transfer

2010

Fisher, Timothy, from Raytheon, $90,000, "Development of Nano Thermal Interface Materials."

Agrawal, Rakesh, from National Science Foundation, $300,000, "IGERT:  The Solar Economy IGERT (SEIGERT)."

Fisher, Timothy, from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Adv Sci Res, $16,400, "The India-US Joint Networked Centre on Nanomaterials for Energy."

Garimella, Suresh V., from National Science Foundation, $50,000, "NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Compact, High-Performance Cooling Technologies Research."

Sands, Timothy D., from University Of California - Santa Cruz, $50,000, "Nanostructured Metal/Semiconductor Materials for Thermoelectric Generators."

Fisher, Timothy, from Raytheon, $707,735, "Development of Nano Thermal Interface Materials."

Xu, Xianfan, from Research Triangle Institute, $45,000, "Advanced Nanoscale Thin-films and Nano-bulk Thermoelectric Materials towards 30% Conversion Efficiency Devices."

Fisher, Timothy, from University Of Dayton Research Institute, $32,280, "Database Development for thermalHUB."

Sands, Timothy D., from Office Of Naval Research, $35,000, "Composition-Modulated Nanowire Arrays for Thermoelectric Power Generation."

Sands, Timothy D., from Office Of Naval Research, $90,358, "Composition-Modulated Nanowire Arrays for Thermoelectric Power Generation."

Xu, Xianfan, from Universal Technology Corporation, $38,762, "Photoacoustic Measurement of Thermal Conductance at Low Temperatures."

Xu, Xianfan, from Air Force Office Of Scientific Research, $125,000, "Coherent Control of Thermal Transport."

Xu, Xianfan, from Universal Technology Corporation, $33,605, "Photoacoustic Measurement of Thermal Conductance at Low Temperatures."

 

2009

XU, XIANFAN, from UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, $72,395, "Photoacoustic Measurement of Thermal Conductance at Low Temperatures."

XU, XIANFAN, from AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, $125,000, "Coherent Control of Thermal Transport."

GARIMELLA, SURESH V., from RAYTHEON, $22,210, "SOW 2 - Thermal Ground Plane Program: Nanostructured Wick Material System Development."

XU, XIANFAN, from Spectral Energies, LLC, $14,000, "SBIR: Femtosecond Temporal Pulse Shaping and Spectroscopy for Drilling and Inspecting Straight and Shaped Cooling Holes."

FISHER, TIMOTHY, from PowerMEMS Technologies Inc., $133,543, "Enhanced Thermal Interfaces for Compact Reciprocating PowerGeneration Devices."

FISHER, TIMOTHY, from Eaton Innovation Center, &9,500, "Electrical and Thermal Conductivity Measurement of Nanomaterial Sheets."

FISHER, TIMOTHY, from Eaton Innovation Center, $13,725, "Synthesis of Arrays of Carbon Nanotube on Copper Sheets."

 

2008

Fisher, Timothy; Birck Nanotechnology Center, from INTEL CORPORATION, $ 7,630, "Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interfaces on Package Lids."

Xu, Xianfan; Birck Nanotechnology Center, from AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, $125,000, "Coherent Control of Thermal Transport."

Sands, Timothy D.; Birck Nanotechnology Center, from University of California - Santa Cruz, $67,000, "Hybrid Opto Thermo Electrical Energy Converter."

Fisher, Timothy; Birck Nanotechnology Center, from HRL LABORATORIES, LLC, $19,977, "Synthesis and Characterization of CNT Interfaces."

Schwartz, Richard J.; Birck Nanotechnology Center, from DEFENSE ADVANCED RES PROJECTS AGENCY, $245,304, "Detailed Numerical Device Modeling in Support of the VHESC Program."

Fisher, Timothy; Birck Nanotechnology Center, Creare Incorporated, $9,996, "Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Thermal Interfaces: CNT Thermal Interfaces.”

Fisher, Timothy; Birck Nanotechnology Center, National Science Foundation, $33,794, "Collaborative Research: qHUB - Cyberinfrastructure for Community-Driven Research and Education in Heat Transfer - Amendment 1.”

Xu, Xianfan; Birck Nanotechnology Center, Research Triangle Institute, $45,000, "Advanced Nanoscale Thin-films and Nano-bulk Thermoelectric Materials towards 30% Conversion Efficiency Devices.”

Pourpoint, Timothee L.; Birck Nanotechnology Center, General Motors Corp., $347,422 (13% BNC), "Optimization of Manufacturable High Pressure Metal Hydride Storage Systems - Phase 1 Extension Proposal.”

Sands, Timothy D.; Birck Nanotechnology Center, University Of California - Santa Cruz, $190,000, "Nanostructured Metal/Semiconductor Materials for Thermoelectric Generators.”

Qi, Minghao; Birck Nanotechnology Center, Clemson University, $9,441, "Grain Boundary Complexes and Transitions in Doped Silicon."

 

2007

Fisher, Timothy; Birck Nanotechnology Center, from Creare Incorporated, $126,306, "Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Thermal Interfaces."

Fisher, Timothy and Murthy, Jayathi Y.; Birck Nanotechnology Center, from National Science Foundation, $123,794, "Collaborative Research: qHUB — Cyberinfrastructure for Community-Driven Research and Education in Heat Transfer."