SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Long-wavelength IR Sensor for Water Drop Temperature Measurement
Award amount
$149,965Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SPECTRAL ENERGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-08-28
- Contract end date
- 2026-03-27
- UEI
- C3DAVH4VJDG3
- Solicitation number
- SBIR 2025-I
- Topic code
- A1
Research abstract
This proposed research aims to develop an LWIR imaging sensor to enable real-time, in-situ measurements of temperatures and size distributions of airborne supercooled water droplets. The proposed sensor will use an LWIR camera for 2D imaging of the water droplets. By calibrating temperature and intensity of small water drops in the icing tunnel, the water droplets will be imaged to obtain size distribution information. The temperature of the water droplets will be determined based on the LWIR emission intensity. Phase I will focus on the design, fabrication, and demonstration of the sensor system in a research icing tunnel. Phase II will involve the application and testing of the sensor system in NASA’s icing wind tunnel.
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.
- Development of a Hybrid Optical Sensor for Off-Axis Laser Threat Detection and Classification
- Turbulent boundary layer (TBL) Drag Reduction Flight Demonstration via Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators
- An Open, Modular, and Standardized Testing Architecture for Alternative Navigation Technology relevant to Hypersonic and Supersonic Platforms
- Novel 2D plasma actuator for rotating detonation augmentors
- NanoSPARC: High-Speed Additive Manufacturing for LWIR Meta-Optics
Research funding history
272 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2026). Reported award amounts total $120,780,215. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture