SBIR/STTR Research Award
Affordable 3D Printed Phased Arrays
Award amount
$79,995Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Sciperio, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-08-04
- Contract end date
- 2015-06-04
- UEI
- GKUVEK4HMMZ8
- Solicitation number
- 2014.
- Topic code
- N14A-T021
Research abstract
3D printed phased array antennas (PAA) would be more rugged, lighter and take a variety of shapes and including unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wings. Printing antennas, passives and interconnects has been demonstrated in 3D printing. Using printed electronic approaches for printing Field Effect Transistors (FET) has been demonstrated and including printing switches in the GHz regime. The challenge is to combine these similar but disparate techniques to print active switches in PAAs. This proposed effort will utilize micro-dispensing, also known as direct printing, to print the entire PAA. Demonstrations of a printed FET as well as printing to bare die will be done in Phase I and a path to show the cost savings and the feasibility of printing a full PAA in Phase II.
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.
- Additively Manufactured Electronics for Extreme Environmental Conditions
- Recycling Enabled Autonomous Cell Culture System
- Organoid Research and Automated Characterization for Live Electrophysiology (ORACLE)
- High Reliability Interconnects for Advanced Integrated Circuits in Additive Manufactured Electronics
- An Innovative Wireless Sensing Technology for Concrete Curing Quantification
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Novel, Low-Cost Phased arrays Manufactured by 3D Printing (1000-325)
- Novel, Low-Cost Phased Arrays Manufactured by 3D Printing (1000-295)
- Affordable 3D Printed Phased Arrays
Research funding history
40 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $11,241,921. 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 Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation