SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
Award amount
$79,994Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Sinmat Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2011-11-04
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- EKDLPTKX33M6
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- N112-105
Research abstract
Sinmat Inc., in collaboration with Exotic Electro-Optics, Inc. proposes to investigate grinding and polishing of large sapphire windows using slurries based on unique nanoporous silica particles. Due to light transparency and high mechanical hardness and inertness, sapphire window materials find immense application in reconnaissance, navigation, surveillance, and thermal imaging systems used in submarines, tanks, missiles, helicopters, fighter jets and electro-optical targeting systems. Sinmat proposes to develop a chemical mechanical polishing process that will deliver low-cost, high-throughput fabrication of sapphire windows. The optical fabrication and performance testing of these windows will be carried out by Exotic Electro-Optics, Inc., a subsidiary of II-VI, Inc.
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.
- Novel Reactive Defect Reduction Polishing Technology for Scalable Production of ElectronicDiamond Wafers
- Novel Ultra-High Rate Finishing Processes for Production of 100 mm Epi-ready GaN Substrates Title on abstract leaves out the word "Novel")
- Efficient Manufacturing of Low Defect Density SiC Substrates using a Novel Defect Capped Planarization Assisted Growth (DC-PAG) Method
- Innovative Polishing Technology for Fabrication of High Performance Epi-ready GaSb Substrates
- Production of Reduced Defect Density (112) Silicon Wafers Utilizing Ultra- Gentle, Chemical Mechanical Smoothening (CMS) Process
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
Research funding history
42 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2016). Reported award amounts total $12,792,050. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy