SBIR/STTR Research Award
640x512 Dualband Longwave/Longwave Infrared SLS FPA For Interceptor Seekers
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- QMAGIQ LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2011-07-01
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- X11XL8K6MNL8
- Solicitation number
- 2010.3
- Topic code
- MDA10-012
Research abstract
We propose to bandgap engineer the InAs/GaSb/AlSb material system to realize a dualband focal plane array (FPA) made up of stacked multi-barrier Type-II strained layer superlattice (SLS) photodiodes. Two longwave infrared spectral bands will be imaged in alternate frames by using a readout multiplexer that flips the voltage bias across the FPA from frame to frame. In Phase I, we will develop and demonstrate the basic dualband sensor, which will be converted into a proof-of-concept 320x256 dualband FPA in the Phase I Option. Phase II will develop a 640x512 version with the goal of high (single band level) performance in each of the two longwave bands combined with low spectral crosstalk. We will also engage with a Systems Prime in Phase II so as to ready the FPA and packaging for a systems level test following Phase II.
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.
- Dual Band Long-Wave Infrared p-type InAs/(In)GaSb Superlattice Focal Plane Arrays
- Dual-Band Focal Plane Arrays with Double Unipolar Barrier InAs/GaSb Superlattices
- 640x512 Dualband Longwave/Longwave Infrared SLS FPA For Interceptor Seekers
- LWIR FPAS based on Type-II Superlattice Minority Electron Unipolar Architecture
- Dual-Band Focal Plane Arrays with Double Unipolar Barrier InAs/GaSb Superlattices
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