Sensors & Electronics
Awards & Recgonition
R&D 100 Awards
R&D Awards are made by R&D Magazine and are typically given for important technical innovation. One hundred awards are announced each calendar year. A brief description of each PNNL award winner can be found by clicking on the name of the award winner (text excerpted from the PNNL R&D 100 website.)
Ultrasonic Case Depth Hardness Method (102)
2004 - Novel polymer for sensor applications (BSP3 Polymer)
2004 - Millimeter wave system for Intellifit (Intellifit System)
2004 - Single-chain Antibody Library (Basis for biological sensors)
2003 - Product Acoustic Signature System (PASS)
2001 - Decision Support for Operations and Maintenance™ (DSOM)
- Advanced Root-Cause Analysis (242)
- Control Operations to Extend Service Life (240)
- Customized Tools to Improve O&M (42)
- Documented Savings & Reliability Benefits (199)
- Equipment Monitors for Power Plant O&M (243)
- Evaluation of Equipment Operation (245)
- Facility Improvement Opportunities (43)
- Facility Operation Characterization (44)
- Intelligent Automated Equipment Diagnostics (117)
- Power Plant O&M Improvements (229)
- Understanding Component Failure Risks (244)
- Understanding/Predicting Equipment Failure (241)
2001 - Long-Range Semi-Passive Radio Frequency Identification System
- Autonomous Sensor-communicator Module (24)
- Portal Monitor for Small, Moving Objects (27)
- Radio-Frequency (RF) Tags (29)
2001 - MilliWave Viscometer
2000 - Multi-Blade Knife Failure Detector
2000 - Sunna Dosimeter
1999 - PUMA Fiber Optic Neutron & Gamma Ray Sensor
1998 - Radionuclide Aerosol Sampler/Analyzer (RASA)
1998 - R-TiC Metals Emission Monitor (with MIT)
1997 - Refractory Corrosion Monitor
1996 - Autonomous Environmental Sentinel (AES)
1995 - Real-time Ultrasonic Imaging System (RTUIS)
1995 - Microwave Plasma Continuous Emission Monitor
1994 - Ultrasonic Microstructural Analyzer (UMA)
1994 - Active mm-Wave Pyrometer
1992 - Cooled, Optically Stimulated Luminescence (COSL)
1991 - Planar Waveguide Spectrometer
1991 - Quantitative Luminescence Imaging System (QLIS)
1991 - Electro-Optic Liquid Sensor
1974 - Optical Digital Recording
1969 - Acoustic Emission Tester
