SBIR/STTR Research Award
E-band Traveling Wave Tube Amplifer with Carbon Nanotube Cathode
Award amount
$99,993Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- RADIABEAM TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2011-02-18
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Q6NDLV47NBT5
- Solicitation number
- 2010.3
- Topic code
- AF103-074
Research abstract
ABSTRACT: RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC proposes to develop a Carbon Nanotube (CNT) cathode Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). The frequency range of operation is in the E-band (71-76 GHz). The TWTA will be suitable for use in satellite communications. The utilization of innovative CNT cathodes will allow the exploitation of a broad spectrum, 5GHz, available in the millimeter wavelengths for high data rate battlefield communications. Thus, it will be possible to obtain satellite communications uplinks that will operate at multi-gigabit per second data rates and well understood weather attenuation factors, such as rain fade. In such a way, link budgets would be effectively realized. BENEFIT: There are two major markets for the technology being developed in this project. For Military/Defense applications, Traveling Wave Tubes can be used as RF amplifiers for wideband systems, such broadcasting, radar and satellite communications. For commercial applications, they find application in bandwith-intensive commercial communication arenas such cellular and wide band mobile communications and high speed data transfer.
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.
- Force-Neutral Adjustable Phase Undulator
- L-Band Beam Modulator for X-Band Linear Accelerator
- Engineered Drop-in Systems for Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments
- Lightweight High-Energy X-ray Source for In-Space Nondestructive Evaluation
- DICE: Dual-band Image Combining Equipment
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- E-band Traveling Wave Tube Amplifer with Carbon Nanotube Cathode
- Beam Focusing Carbon Nanotube Cathode for Traveling Wave Tubes
- E-band Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier with Innovative Carbon Nanotube Cathode
Research funding history
190 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2025). Reported award amounts total $96,783,846. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce