SBIR/STTR Research Award
Stable Tl-based Semiconductor Modules for Radiation Detection
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- CAPESYM INC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-05-01
- Contract end date
- 2015-10-31
- UEI
- CSZST8YFP7K1
- Solicitation number
- HSHQDC-15-R-00017
- Topic code
- H-SB015.1-009
Research abstract
Thallium-based semiconductors are promising materials for detection of gamma rays, primarily due to their high Z, high electrical conductivity and optimum bandgap energy. This program focuses on two materials TlBr and Tl4I6Se. For TlBr, this program seeks to overcome long term stability issues related to presence of mobile ions. For Tl4I6Se, this program seeks to improve the crystalline and chemical quality of this material. We will investigate the feasibility of using these materials in personal radiation detectors (PRDs), and by the end of this program will down select one of the two and fabricate a PRD using a Tl-based semiconductor detector.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High-Resolution Direct-Conversion X-ray Detectors for Low-Dose Imaging
- Crystal Growth and Characterization of Doped VUV Crystals
- Low-Cost High-Efficiency X-ray Imaging Panels for Field Radiography
- High Yield Growth and Fabrication of Spectroscopic Radiation Detection Semiconductors
- High Quantum Efficiency Scintillators for Dual Readout Calorimetry
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Personal Neutron Detector Based on Cadmium Telluride
- Semiconductor Neutron Detector
- TlBr Detectors for Radiation Pagers
- Stable Tl-based Semiconductor Modules for Radiation Detection
- Semiconductor Neutron Detector
Research funding history
85 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2025). Reported award amounts total $46,105,917. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration