SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra-Low-Power MEMS Selective Gas Sensors
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- KWJ ENGINEERING INC
- Proposal award date
- 2011-02-18
- Contract end date
- 2011-09-29
- UEI
- S4WJSMZZUUA5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- X10.01
Research abstract
KWJ offers this proposal for a very low power but very practical "nano-watt" MEMS sensor platform for NASA requirements. The proposed nano-sensor platform is ultra low power and has a long sensor lifetime for extended battery life or power-harvester operation. The extremely fast response time of the sensor (<100 nsec) will be utilized in this SBIR as a possible new and innovative avenue to create selectivity for TCDs. This approach would only be available to very fast detectors like the new KWJ MEMS detector. The sensor is a platform technology designed for multiple analyte measurement on a single chip. In addition to cryogenic system leak detection for CH4, H2, and He, the platform can address trace levels of N2, O2, and H20 in gaseous helium purge streams. The SBIR project creates products and spin offs for NASA, industrial, and medical applications.
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.
- Materials for Gravure Printing of Chemical Gas Sensors
- Ultralow Power Sensors for Firefighter Safety and Monitoring of Surrounding Air Quality
- Ultralow Power Sensor Package for Ground Level Air Pollution Levels from Wildland Fires
- Ultralow Power Sensors for Firefighter Safetey and Monitoring of Surrounding Air Quality
- Ultralow Power Sensor Package for Ground Level Air Pollution Levels from Wildland Fires
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Reliable Actuator for Cryo Propellant Fluid Control
- Thin Aerogel as a Spacer in Multi-Layer Insulation for Cryogenic Space Applications
- A Novel Flow Measurement System for Cryogenic Two-Phase Flow
- Reliable Actuator for Cryo Propellant Fluid Control
- Thin Aerogel as a Spacer in Multi-Layer Insulation for Cryogenic Space Applications
Research funding history
33 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2022). Reported award amounts total $8,144,131. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture