SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Performance Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) Focal Plane Array (FPA) Sensor for Missile Defense
Award amount
$125,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- QMAGIQ LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-12-22
- Contract end date
- 2015-07-21
- UEI
- X11XL8K6MNL8
- Solicitation number
- 2014.2
- Topic code
- MDA14-021
Research abstract
We propose to bandgap-engineer the antimony-based Group III-V compound semiconductor material system to realize a dualband focal plane array (FPA) made up of stacked multi-barrier Type-II strained layer superlattice (SLS) photodiodes. Two longwave infrared (LWIR) spectral bands will be imaged in alternate frames by using a readout multiplexer that flips the voltage bias across the FPA from frame to frame. In Phase I, we will re-design the basic LWIR SLS photodiode to significantly increase quantum efficiency over the current state-of-the-art while minimizing dark current. Phase II will use this breakthrough to develop a longwave/longwave dualband infrared FPA with the high quantum efficiency and low spectral crosstalk. We will also engage with a Systems Prime in Phase II to package the FPA for a systems level test following Phase II. Approved for Public Release 14-MDA-8047 (14 Nov 14)
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- INFRARED SLS FPAS ON DIGITAL-PIXEL ROICS FOR GREATLY IMPROVED SIGNAL-TO-NOISE PERFORMANCE
- COMPACT MULTI-SPECTRAL INFRARED CAMERA WITH 4-MEGAPIXEL FOCAL PLANE ARRAY WITH INTEGRATED SPECTRAL FILTERS
- TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE THE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF LWIR SLS FPAs
- COMPACT MULTI-SPECTRAL INFRARED CAMERA WITH 4-MEGAPIXEL FOCAL PLANE ARRAY WITH INTEGRATED SPECTRAL FILTERS
- DEPOSITION OF MULTIPLE INFRARED SPECTRAL FILTERS DIRECTLY ON FOCAL PLANE ARRAY
Awards with the same topic code
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- Conformal Multilayered Passivation for Type-II indium arsenide/gallium antimonide Superlattice Mesas
- Increased Lifetime and Decreased Dark Current in Ga-Free Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) T2SL through Defect Identification and Mitigation
- Conformal Multilayered Passivation for Type-II InAs/GaSb Superlattice Mesas
- High Performance Noise-Suppressing Long Wavelength Infrared Mercury Cadmium Telluride Focal Plane Array (FPA) Sensors
- Increased Lifetime and Decreased Dark Current in Ga-Containing Longwave Infrared (LWIR) Type-II Superlattices (T2SL) through Defect Identification and Mitigation
Research funding history
65 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2025). Reported award amounts total $25,543,705. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration