SBIR/STTR Research Award
Efficient Space Borne MMIC Interface
Award amount
$99,847Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Nuvotronics, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-01-29
- Contract end date
- 2010-07-29
- UEI
- HL7JT5QBBTE7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.02
Research abstract
We are proposing to develop high power, high efficiency Ka-band and W-band amplifiers for future NASA missions. The significance of the innovation primarily lies in two areas: better interconnections to available MMIC and extremely low loss power combiner. The approach uses Nuvotronics unique metal micromachining PolyStrataTM process, used to create suspended recta-coax lines, MMIC sockets, and millimeter-wave (MMW) interconnection circuits with low loss, small size/high density, and durability. During this Phase I project, we wil design two circuits at Ka and W-band using commercial of the shelf power amplifer MMICs to achieve the goal of 10 Watts (Ka) and 2 watts (W) output power with 20% efficiency.
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.
- High-Power S-band TR Module
- Compact Surface Mount Tuning Component for Tunable Filter Applications
- Wafer level Integration on PolyStrata(R) Interposer (WIPI) Phase II (17028)
- Covert and Dynamic Communications Arrays at V-Band Frequencies
- Compact Wideband Direction Finder
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Ka-Band Klystron Amplifier for CUBESATs
- 640 GHz Heterodyne Polarimeter
- High Frequency Reflective Mesh for Small Aperture Antennas
- 20GSps 6-bit Low-Power Rad-Tolerant ADC
- Deployable Microwave Antennas for CubeSats, NanoSats, and SmallSats
Research funding history
62 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2018). Reported award amounts total $24,381,532. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce