The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and Basic Energy Sciences has awarded two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grants targeting advances in solid-state lighting technology:

 •Lumisyn LLC— Nanocrystal-based Phosphors with Enhanced Lifetime Stability

 •PhosphorTech Corporation— Plasmonic-enhanced High Light Extraction Phosphor Sheets for Solid State Lighting

The SBIR-STTR program within the DOE Office of Science seeks to increase the participation of small businesses in federally sponsored innovative and novel research and development. To learn more about this program, visit http://science.energy.gov/sbir/.