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HPD has been awarded a $300,000
grant by the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) and National Cancer
Institute (NCI) for the development
of Ultra-low Field MRI (ULF-MRI)
technology. Under this Small Business
Innovative Research grant, HPD will
work with physicists at the University
of California, Berkeley and at NIST
Boulder to refine and further develop
ULF-MRI technology for detection of
prostate and breast cancers. This
technology could greatly enhance the
ability for early diagnosis and
treatment of these diseases. HPD will
apply its expertise in the area of
low-temperature instrumentation
to this effort.
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HPD is
proud to announce that Joshua
West, Ph.D., is joining us as
Staff Physicist. Josh comes
to HPD from Pennsylvania State
University where he worked
with Dr. Moses H.W. Chan on
supersolid Helium. At HPD,
Josh will be involved with
a wide range of projects that
integrate various millikelvin
cryogenic systems.
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HPD has been awarded a
Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) contract by
the US Army Research Office
for the development of a
custom cryostat (cold chamber)
for quantum information science
and low-temperature physics
research. The cryostat will
produce temperatures below
1° Kelvin (-272° Celsius) as
required for research in
quantum physics phenomena
in superconductor and
semiconductor systems. This
research could provide the
basis for emerging technology
in quantum computers, which
can potentially be much more
powerful than current computers.
This Phase II STTR contract is
for $750K over a two year period
and will leverage HPD’s
recognized expertise in ultra-low
temperature precision instruments.
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A2Z Metalworker
magazine has published a feature article
about HPD in its July/August, 2010 issue.
Click here to see the full article.
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HPD
attended the 2010 Applied
Superconductivity Conference,
which took place August 1-6 in
Washington, D.C. For
more information on this
conference, visit www.ascinc.org.
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HPD
attended the 2010 American
Physical Society meeting, which
took place March 15-19 in
Portland, Oregon. For
more information on this
conference, visit www.aps.org.
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HPD has
been awarded an SBIR grant from
NIST for the development of a
cryostat to be used with
ultra-high-resolution
transition-edge sensor (TES)
kilopixel array
“cameras”.
HPD’s cryostat will cool
the TES arrays to temperatures
below 1 Kelvin ( 272°
Celsius). These instruments may
be used for detecting silicon
wafer defects, for nuclear
forensics, and for sub-mm
astronomy. The Phase II Small
Business Innovative Research
grant is for $300K over a two
year period and will compliment
HPD’s recognized
expertise in ultra-low
temperature precision
instruments.
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HPD
attended the 2009 American
Physical Society meeting, which
took place March 16-18 in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For
more information on this
conference, visit www.aps.org.
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The
bi-anuual American
Superconductivity Conference
took place in Chicago August
17-22, 2008. HPD participated
as an exhibitor, where we had
our Rainier 103 ADR
Cryostat on display. For more
information on this conference,
visit www.ascinc.org.
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HPD
recently designed, engineered,
and assisted in the
construction of this kinetic
Wave Wall for the LIGO Science
Education Center (SEC) in
Livingston, LA. The Wave Wall
was conceived by exhibit
developers at the Exploratorium
in San Francisco, and is meant
to demonstrate both orderly and
chaotic wave action to visitors
of the LIGO SEC who have come
to learn about the search for
gravity waves.
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