SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Scheme to Reduce Dark Current in SLS FPAs
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- QMAGIQ LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2012-02-01
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- X11XL8K6MNL8
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- MDA11-005
Research abstract
Longwave infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs) based on Type-II InAs/GaSb-based strained layer superlattice (SLS) photodiodes show good performance at the current time. A key remaining challenge is the reduction of dark current, dominated by pixel surface leakage in FPAs and low minority carrier lifetime in the bulk material. We propose to address the former in this Phase I and develop a unique scheme to reduce dark current in small pixels by a factor of 10x, approaching bulk leakage values. In Phase II, we will apply the technique to make very large format FPAs.
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
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Smart Infrared Focal Plane Arrays and Advanced Electronics
- Digital Readout Infrared Focal Plane Array
- Smart Infrared Focal Plane Arrays and Advanced Electronics
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