SBIR/STTR Research Award
Magnetic Tunnel Junction-based Ultra-Low Power Radio Frequency (RF) Field Sensor
Award amount
$124,930Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- NVE CORP. (FORMERLY NONVOLATILE ELECTRONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-12-22
- Contract end date
- 2015-07-21
- UEI
- N4M9AKGECJQ3
- Solicitation number
- 2014.2
- Topic code
- MDA14-007
Research abstract
This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I proposal will demonstrate the feasibility of an ultra-low power radio frequency (RF) field sensor based on novel magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) technology. The sensor will be comprised of an MTJ sensing element that, when placed in a component or system, will monitor for perturbations in the ambient RF field profile during various stages of operation. The configured sensor is environmentally robust and is sensitive to the field direction. This project will also develop a low power complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) concept to provide digital readout of the measured signal with post processing to look for perturbations to be done off-chip. The results of this effort will provide a concise path forward for the fabrication of prototype sensors in the Phase II program. Approved for Public Release 14-MDA-8047 (14 Nov 14)
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.
- Circulator Technology for Full Integration at the Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) Level
- Advanced Magnetic Pickup Hearing Aids
- Monolithic Spin-Torque Microwave Diode Spectrograph
- High throughput salmonella detector
- High throughput salmonella detector
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Two Dimensional Ambient RF Field Integrated Sensor
- Radio Frequency (RF) Field Sensor for Integrated Circuits (IC)
- Radio Frequency (RF) Field Sensor for Integrated Circuits (IC)
- Two Dimensional Ambient Radio Frequency (RF) Field Integrated Sensor
- Hiawatha on a Chip (HoC): Ultra-Sensitive, Ultra-Low Power Radio Frequency (RF) Field Sensor
Research funding history
144 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2017). Reported award amounts total $37,662,791. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services