Ultrasensitive chip-scale ion-sensors for mass spectrometry

NASA Science Challenge – Guardion was selected as a competion winner for future Mass Spectrometery.

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) partnered with the global aerospace hub, Starburst, to jointly launch a pilot program to engage entrepreneurs. The first edition of the Entrepreneurs Challenge sought to identify individuals and promising commercial companies working on technology that will advance the state-of-the-art in three broadly defined technology focus areas.

Ultrasensitive chip-scale ion-sensors for mass spectrometry

Guardion helps mass spectrometer manufacturers increase market share and create new market opportunities by significantly improving their product’s sensitivity and reducing the reliance on expensive and cumbersome vacuum components. Guardion enables these product improvements by providing detectors that increase sensitivity, significantly reduce size, weight, operating power, and cost of the detector section, and provide ion detection at ambient conditions, thereby significantly reducing vacuum requirements. Additionally, the high spatial resolution of the microfabricated sensor arrays open up new potential product lines by greatly simplifying the ion-prefiltering technologies needed in the customer’s systems. In addition to providing value to the customers, Guardion’s products will enable the end users to achieve their analytical needs faster, more reliably, and more impactfully. In particular, Guardion’s technology advantage will enable increased homeland security by meeting increasing demands for portable or leave-behind analysis equipment, and improve industrial processing through more affordable and easier to deploy analysis equipment.

Nanotechnology-based X-ray Detectors for Space Observations

Guardion is developing novel pixelated X-ray sensors from our nanaomaterial based ion-sensors.

Nanotechnology Enabled Neutron Detection Systems
Developing new approaches to neutron detection that have significant reductions in size, weight, and power.