SANDIA CALIFORNIA TECHNOLOGIES FOR LICENSING The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), its laboratories, and production facilities are committed to helping businesses in the United States to improve the cycle from new ideas and product innovation to product development and commercialization. In order to achieve this goal, the DOE has put in place a program to transfer technologies developed at its laboratories to the private sector for commercial applications. DOE's objective in doing this is to establish mutually beneficial partnerships that can leverage advanced technologies and enhance the U.S. position in the ever changing global marketplace. Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) is one of the participating laboratories in this program. By this announcement, Sandia is soliciting expressions of interest from U.S. businesses for potential licensing of some of its technologies for which patent applications have been filed with the U.S. Patent Office. These are: 1. Flow Geometries for the Uniform Deposition of Materials and Heat: This invention offers two inherently scalable designs for improving chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and heat-transfer processes that are based on stagnation flows. Both the designs result in uniform fluxes to flat surfaces by maintaining the properties of an ideal stagnation flow, and at the same time, maximize the use of reagents and minimize finite dimension edge effects. 2. Targets for Laser Plasma EUV and Soft X-ray Sources: In this invention, macroscopic solid targets are abandoned altogether which completely avoids the generation of particulate debris. Instead, a different approach is used to generate Van der Waals clusters of species which are efficient EUV or soft x-ray radiators under intense laser radiation. 3. Method for Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) Lithography: This invention describes a method for producing a patterned array features, in particular, gate apertures in the size range of 0.4 -0.5um using projection lithography and EUV radiation. A high energy laser beam is used to vaporize a target material in order to produce a plasma which in turn, produces EUV radiation suitable for lithographic applications. 4. Wavelength Dependent Thermal Radiation for Opaque/Non opaque Media: This invention describes the application of computational models to simulate rapid thermal processing (RTP) reactors. It describes the development of RTP specific software compatible with workstation computers and the application of large-scale computational models to evaluate reactor design parameters. 5. Controlled Spray Cooling for Flame CVD: This invention addresses the problem of controlled cooling of high heat flux, high temperature surfaces specifically cooling of molybdenum mandrels used in atmospheric pressure, flame-based chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of diamond films. Two solutions were employed: (i) Isothermal Spray cooling, and (ii) Super Leidenfrost cooling. 6. Automatic Measurement and Focusing of an Electron Beam for Welding: This invention is an instrument for measuring the diameter of an electron beam, and automatically focusing it for welding. Beam size is determined from the profiles of the current measured as the beam is swept over slits parallel and normal to the welding directions. An automated procedure changes the focus coil current until sharp focus at the workpiece is obtained. 7. Quick-stop Device for Drilling: This is an invention whose purpose is to allow the cutting process of a drilling tool to be frozen in time; to go from the normal drilling speed to zero in a very short time, in order to be able to examine the interface between the drilling tool and the workpiece. 8. Purification of Materials for Room Temperature Radiation Detectors: This invention discloses a method of purifying nonmetallic, crystalline semiconducting materials useful for room temperature radiation detecting devices by applying an electric field across the material. The present invention is useful for producing purified ionic semiconducting materials such as PbI2 and HgI2. It produces high yields of purified product, requires minimal handling of the material, thereby reducing the possibility of introducing or reintroducing impurities into the material, is easy to control, is highly selective for impurities, retains the stoichiometry of the material and employs neither high temperatures nor hazardous materials such as solvents or liquid metals. 9. Carbon Supercapacitor Electrode Material: There is a need for a rechargeable energy source that can deliver high power for short periods, for applications in defense, consumer goods, and electric vehicles. In this invention, a process is described for synthesizing a carbon material from a relatively inexpensive, nontoxic precursor. The carbon formed in this process has the desirable features of porosity, contiguous structure, good mechanical properties, and high surface area that makes it suitable for double-layer capacitor applications. 10. Thin Film Polymeric Gel Electrolytes: Hybrid electrolytes can be processed as thin films and have high conductivities. One problem with the current hybrid electrolytes is that they utilize liquids with high vapor pressures. This invention describes the development of a new low vapor pressure hybrid electrolyte which is a PAN gel containing dissolved salts. Films of this electrolyte were shown to be compositionally stable under conditions which simulated that of non-hermetically sealed batteries. These electrolytes will wet carbon anodes and lithium manganese oxide-carbon cathodes which allowed composites of the anodes and cathodes with the electrolyte to be formulated. 11. Method of Preparation of High Surface Area, High Permeability Carbons: This invention provides a high surface area carbon in a new physical form of a porous monolith with interconnected pores that enables new applications. The walls of the interconnected pores consists of interconnected flakes which contain nanometer size pores that produce high surface area and high capacity for absorbing liquids and gases. 12. Optical Probe: This invention provides a compact optical probe geometry for optically-based measurements that allows all optical components (source, detector, rely optics, etc.) to be located in proximity to one another. The geometry of the probe disclosed herein provides a means for making optical measurements in environments where it is difficult and/or expensive to gain access to the vicinity of a flow stream to be measured. Significantly, the lens geometry of the optical probe allows the analysis location to be moved while maintaining optical alignment of all components even when the optical probe is focused on a plurality of different analysis points. 13. SiC Foams: This invention discloses a method of preparing near net shape, monolithic, porous SiC foams. Phase separation processes are used to produce organosilicon polymer gels. Following solvent removal from the gel, the residual polymer foam is pyrolized in an inert atmosphere to form a SiC foam. These near net shape SiC foams are very inexpensive to produce, have a surface area of at least 15 m2/g, are high temperature resistent, oxidatively stable, and are composed of a network of cells having diameters from about 10 to about 100 um. This is not a solicitation. Parties interested in licensing one or more of these technologies are invited to submit a letter of interest providing information about the company, areas of potential application for the technology and the point of contact (including address, telephone and fax numbers). Letters should be sent to: Joanne Trujillo, MS 1380, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1380. FAX: (505)843-4175.

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