SBIR/STTR Research Award
Large-format Low-false-alarm NIR SPAD Imager
Award amount
$149,997Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- VOXTEL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-12-19
- Contract end date
- 2018-01-19
- UEI
- N2KECNUUMBF4
- Solicitation number
- 2016.2
- Topic code
- SB162-010
Research abstract
To meet the U.S. military need for a near-single-photon low-light-level passive imager, a large-format, near-infrared (NIR)-sensitive silicon single-photon avalanche-diode (SPAD) digital imager capable of high-dynamic range, high detection efficiency, and low dark counts will be developed. Toward this end, in Phase I, a 256 x 256-element SPAD imager will be integrated into a camera, characterized, and demonstrated. The test results, alongside application requirements, will be used to design, model and simulate a mega-pixel (e.g., 1280 x 1024) SPAD imager, with greater than 31 bits of dynamic range. In Phase II, the large-format SPAD imager with enhanced NIR sensitivity will be fabricated, characterized, and shown to meet the solicited requirements. A camera will be used to conduct controlled field experiments.
Technology keywords
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Dual-Mode, Extended Near-Infrared, Focal Plane Arrays Fabricated with CMOS Compatible GeSiSn Alloy Materials
- Large-Format Low-false-alarm NIR SPAD Imager
- Dual-Mode, Extended Near-Infrared, Focal Plane Arrays fabricated with a Commercial SiGe BiCMOS Process
- Near-Photon-Counting, High Dynamic Range, Passive Vision Detector Arrays
- High Sensitivity, Technically Advanced Receiver (HiSTAR)
Research funding history
235 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2021). Reported award amounts total $86,180,717. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency