SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Infrared Focal Plane Arrays with Strained Layer Superlattice Detectors on Digital-Pixel Readout Integrated Circuits
Award amount
$893,858Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- QMAGIQ LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2013-12-24
- Contract end date
- 2015-12-26
- UEI
- X11XL8K6MNL8
- Solicitation number
- 2012.A
- Topic code
- MDA12-T003
Research abstract
We propose to combine QmagiQ's strained layer superlattice (SLS) sensor technology with MIT Lincoln Laboratory's novel digital pixel readout integrated circuit (DROIC) to realize an advanced longwave infrared digital focal plane array (DFPA) with high quantum efficiency, dynamic range, and operating temperature. In Phase I, we developed the basic SLS DFPA and demonstrated its extraordinarily high signal-to-noise. In Phase II, we will optimize the DFPA, integrate it into a full-fledged surveillance system, and test it in the field. It's field performance will be directly compared to an identical system with a mercury cadmium telluride FPA.
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.
- 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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- Innovative Polishing Technology for Fabrication of High Performance Epi-ready GaSb Substrates
- An improved passivation process for the fabrication of high performance antimony based III-V superlattice materials
- Innovative Polishing Technology for Fabrication of High Performance Epi-ready GaSb Substrates
- Advanced Infrared Focal Plane Arrays with Strained Layer Superlattice Detectors on Digital-Pixel Readout Integrated Circuits
- Defect Passivation for Improved Material Properties in Ga-free and Ga-based SLS
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