Sterling Backus

Principal investigator.

Defense
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2015First federal award
$149KFederal grants as PI1 awards
0Patents grantedNone matched
182Papers7,745 citations
Career record

Federal awards and patents by year

20152015
AwardsPatents
Federal awards as principal investigator

1 awards · $149K

DateAgencyAwardAmountCompany
Feb 17, 2015DOESBIR Phase I
Micromachining hard materials for waveguides that can be coated and used at high pressures for HHG (Title on abstract and summary is "Micromachined Hardened Waveguides for High Harmonic Generation (HHG)")
$149KKAPTEYN-MURNANE LABORATORIES, INC
Patents

1 patents as inventor

Matched by the first inventor’s name and the patent’s company.

Among 3,099 researchers in Defense

Peer ranks

Federal funding#2,435
Awards as PI#1,231
Patents#189
From filings, awards and patents

Companies

Federal awards through Oct 21, 2026 and patents through Oct 20, 2026. Awards come from NIH, NSF and other agency records that name a principal investigator; DoD and NASA contract awards do not, so they are not shown here. Researchers are matched by name and company.