Award for microchannel-plate technology goes to NanoScience

NanoScience Corp. (Oxford, CT) has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD). The company will work to develop high-gain, low-noise, silicon microchannel-plate technology by applying a high secondary yield coating to the front end of a microchannel plate. The technology could improve the performance of particle detectors, astronomical observation instruments, and night-vision systems. It could replace glass microchannel plates that cannot be used with some material systems because of temperature processing requirements.