Featured Technologies

Nanohmics is developing a chip-scale snapshot hyperspectral sensor that can be integrated into standard COTS imaging systems with minimal impact on size, weight, and power.  Like a filter mosaic, it provides video-rate data capture, but unlike filter mosaics, the sensor provides full spatial-spectral registration and rejects less light. We are actively developing variants for bands in the UV-LWIR.

Nanohmics is developing a self-sensing AFM probe based on a magnetoelastic transduction mechanism.  With a significantly higher gauge factor than comparable piezoresistive probes, our Exoculon technology enables laser-free, high-speed, high-resolution AFM imaging.

Nanohmics invented a novel process for semiconductor-based ion sensing that does not rely on potentiometric methods as control. The direct ion transducers promise to significantly improve chemical and biological reaction monitoring, chromatographic characterization, ex vivo molecular and biomolecular diagnostics, and real-time in vivo diagnostics.

We have expertise in designing and fabricating broadband anti-reflective surface structure treatments for a variety of infrared materials. We have developed a lithography-free fabrication process to create monolithic, randomly-placed, wide-angle, size-controlled structures on the surfaces of both planar (i.e. windows) and curved (i.e. lenses) optical components. The monolithic nature of our AR treatments eliminates concern of flaking, peeling, or breakdown under intense electric fields.

Nanohmics is developing three-dimensional (3D) plenoptic imaging methods of air flow in a supersonic wind tunnel to elucidate vital wind tunnel parameters of velocity, pressure and temperature using unique disappearing tracer particles. Plenoptic imaging uses microlens arrays to collect the full light field of a scene which enables acquisition of instantaneous three dimensional data. Nanohmics’ innovative computational algorithms reconstruct the density variations caused by shock waves and other aerodynamic phenomena.

Nanohmics has developed a wide range of optical metasurfaces for controlling, detecting, and manipulating light with extreme spectral and spatial precision. These metasurface optics leverage sub-wavelength nanostructures and plasmonic resonances to create a variety of photonic components, including ultra-thin lenses with extremely high image quality, perfect absorbers tuned to specific spectral bands, and graphene-based tunable notch filters for protection of cameras against dazzling. Instead relying on bulk materials properties, metasurfaces and metamaterials are engineered to have specific photonic properties, such as by exploiting resonant phenomena such as optically driven plasmons. Recent breakthroughs will allow for extremely lightweight and inexpensive optics with performance that far surpasses their bulky conventional counterparts.

Nanohmics invented a new process for fabricating thermoelectric devices in a new way to fabricate large area, efficient cooling sheets through roll processing which will enable new applications in local cooling, wearable cooling, and large area power generation from both high-grade and low-grade waste heat.

Nanohmics is working on a multiplexed metal oxide sensing array that can enhance target sensitivity and significant increase the ability to measurement individual components selectively in complex gas mixtures.  The technology is ideal for our changing health diagnostics monitoring and is creating new ways to empower patients to track disease state progression.

The Earth’s turbulent atmosphere causes degradation in the images of space objects observed from the ground. Due to the limitations of current image processing technology, successful software reconstructions of turbulence-degraded imagery require significant computational time and access to massive high-performance computing resources. Nanohmics is developing a cost-effective, sensor-agnostic, scalable software-hardware system for restoring atmospheric turbulence-degraded imagery in real-time.

The number of exoplanets recently discovered by the transit method is seemingly endless, but this method is actually only sensitive to a single orbital inclination—it misses an entire ~179-degree wedge of orbital inclinations.  Under a NASA NIAC program, Nanohmics is investigating an exoplanet detection architecture capable of filling in the missing wedge by developing the algorithms, simulation code, and potential missions that are necessary to exploit the faint echoes caused by exoplanets shortly after stellar variability events.

Nanohmics is developing photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that function as extremely compact, rugged, low-cost, chip-scale sensors.  Optical waveguides and other photonic components microfabricated directly on a silicon substrate control light precisely to create a variety of PICs, such as a real-time infrared spectrometer, a chip-scale gas sensor, and an optical gyroscope for inertial measurement units (IMUs) for air and space vehicles.