SBIR/STTR Research Award
Smartphone Enabled Spectroscopic Gamma-Neutron Radiation Sensor
Award amount
$500,009Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-04-22
- Contract end date
- 2016-04-21
- UEI
- SCKQA85YU4U4
- Solicitation number
- HSHQDC-14-R-00005
- Topic code
- H-SB014.1-006
Research abstract
RMD is proposing the development of a Smart-phone Enabled Radionuclide Identifier (SERI), a new detection instrument designed to take full advantage of the smartphone/tablet technology. The hardware platform will include a new advanced scintillator that will provide both high gamma-ray efficiency and spectroscopic performance, in addition to providing high neutron efficiency. The unit will communicate wirelessly to a smartphone/tablet, which will provide a graphical user interface, an isotope ID and a reach-back functionality. The early stage research is to optimally design the hardware components while moderating cost, instrument size and power consumption. Additionally, the software architecture of the accompanying 'app' will be designed along with the evaluation of key algorithms needed to identify radionuclides. The final product will be an instrument primarily geared to first responders. It will be compact, easily transportable and wearable, battery operable and rugged. Furthermore, with the novel detector design, SERI will provide a completely new level of performance.
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.
- Transparent Conducting Oxide Based On-Chip Modulators for Applications at Cryogenic Temperatures
- Conformal Neutron Supermirrors by Atomic Layer Deposition
- Lead Chalcogenide Mid-Wave Infrared High Detectivity Detectors
- Enabling Precise Multi-Layer Optical Coatings on Highly Curved Lenses with Atomic Layer Deposition
- Lithium Niobate Crystal Growth and Wafer Fabrication
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low-Cost Radiation Detection Using a Smart Phone
- Smartphone Enabled Spectroscopic Gamma-Neutron Radiation Sensor
Research funding history
930 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $346,950,619. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security