SBIR/STTR Research Award
Driver ASICs for Advanced Deformable Mirrors
Award amount
$124,986Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Microscale, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-05-23
- Contract end date
- 2013-11-23
- UEI
- JEHLAUR1Z3N6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S2.01
Research abstract
The program leverages on our extensive expertise in developing high-performance driver ASICs for deformable mirror systems and seeks to expand the capacities of the proposed novel ASIC technology to beyond what have been possible by using traditional techniques. The overall goal of the SBIR program will be to develop a new class of Application Specified Integrated Circuit (ASIC) driver technology to be used in driver electronics of a deformable mirror (DM) system for reducing power dissipation, improving controllability, enforcing multiplexing bandwidth, and significantly reducing the form factors of the entire DM system for adaptive optics. Through the Phase I project, we aims to transform the technology readiness level from TRL 1 to TRL 2, and in Phase II, the technology readiness level for the proposed ASIC driver system will be promoted from TRL 2 to TRL 4 within a 2-year time frame.
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.
- Manufacturing and Tooling Optimizationfor Mirror Quality Assurance of High-Actuator-Count Deformable Mirrors
- Manufacturing Optimization of High-Actuator-Count Deformable Mirrors for Mirror Quality and Actuator Yield Assurance
- Next-Generation Deformable Mirrors for Astronomical Coronagraphy by Utilizing PMN-PT Single Crystal Stack Actuators in integration with Driver ASIC
- Next-Generation Deformable Mirrors for Astronomical Coronagraphy by Utilizing PMN-PT Single Crystal Stack Actuators in integration with Driver ASIC
- Single Crystal Piezoelectric Stack Actuator DM with Integrated Low-Power HVA-Based Driver ASIC
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Robust Optical Edge for a Starshade Petal
- Proximity Glare Suppression for Astronomical Coronagraphy
- Polymer Coating-Based Contaminant Control/Elimination for Exo-S Starshade Probe
- Proximity Glare Suppression using Carbon Nanotubes
Research funding history
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2021). Reported award amounts total $3,303,651. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense