Technology Transfer



There are a number of mechanisms which are used to transfer technology developed at NIST. For wide dissemination of research data and results, publications in journals and conference proceedings, electronic publication via this website, and presentations at international, national and regional conferences are effective. For interactions with the research group there are Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), patent licensing, facility use, guest researcher arrangements, inter-institutional agreements, and confidentiality (nondisclosure) agreements. A contact point for more information on relationships is the Industrial Partnerships Program .

The Chemical Sensors Project has a number of CRADA and other agreements in effect with entities from industry, government and academia. In the area of sensors there are four NIST patents:

S. Semancik and R. E. Cavicchi, "Planar Epitaxial Films of SnO2," US Patent Number 5,330,855(1994).

S. Semancik, R. E. Cavicchi, M. Gaitan, J. S. Suehle, "Temperature-Controlled Micromachined Arrays for Chemical Sensor Fabrication and Operation" U.S. Patent 5,345,213 (1994).

R. E. Cavicchi, S. Semancik, J. S. Suehle, and M. Gaitan, "Application of Microsubstrates for Materials Processing," US Patent Number 5,356,756 (1994).

M. Gaitan, J. S. Suehle, R. E. Cavicchi, S. Semancik, "Micro-Hotplate Devices and Methods for Their Fabrication," U.S. Patent 5,464,966 (1994) .

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