SANDBOX SEMICONDUCTOR INCORPORATED — Department of Energy SBIR Phase I: 03a
SANDBOX SEMICONDUCTOR INCORPORATED — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Energy.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Energy in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $224,704. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code 03a links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $224,704
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 03a
- Solicitation
- DE-FOA-0001770
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2018-04-09 → 2019-04-08
Description
Despite its potential to lower costs and increase throughput, roll-to-roll nanomanufacturing has yet to become widely used by the private sector due to a lack of industry standardization and the dearth of available data on roll-to-roll process limits- To address this knowledge gap and increase roll-to-roll adoption, a high-performance computing simulation tool will be developed- This tool will provide the means for current and potential roll-to-roll industry players to inexpensively and rapidly scale- up, design, and optimize their roll-to-roll plasma etch equipment- The proposed simulation tool will use high performance computing to create a virtual environment for its users to simulate roll-to-roll plasma etch processes- It will be integrated with proprietary technology to enable rapid process predictions, and in turn, eliminate the high development and startup costs currently required to make the switch to roll-to-roll processing-