SBIR/STTR Research Award
Design Modified Commercial CMOS for MDA IR FPAs
Award amount
$99,912Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- BFE Acquisition Sub II, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-03-27
- Contract end date
- 2009-09-27
- UEI
- T81KVW31K7J9
- Solicitation number
- 2008.3
- Topic code
- MDA08-013
Research abstract
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) requires high performance, high sensitivity and low noise infrared sensors for space based sensing applications that operate in environments where radiation hardness is essential to mission operation. Radiation hard by design (RHBD) readout integrated circuits (ROICs) decrease the overall cost of focal plane arrays (FPAs) by exploiting existing commercial foundries rather than relying on increasingly scarce and costly “proven” foundries that offer radiation hard by process (RHBP). Commercial CMOS fabricated with thick silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers will provide exceptional radiation performance to total dose (> 300kRads (Si) with both ionizing and nuclear particles) and mitigate single-event upsets and latch-up. The RHBD concept utilizes enclosed gate NFET layout and adaptive bias to optimize circuit performance for infrared FPAs operating at cryogenic temperatures.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Miniaturized small-pixel Uncooled Infrared Imager for Nano Unmanned Air Vehicles
- Miniaturized small-pixel Uncooled Infrared Imager for Nano Unmanned Air Vehicles
- Low Light Short Wave Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
- Digital In-Pixel Uncooled LWIR Bolometer Camera
- Electronic Image Stabilization for Staring Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Sensors
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Design Modified Commercial CMOS for MDA IR FPAs
- Growth of Large Area CZT Crystals
- Advanced Space Sensor Components and Concepts
- VLWIR HgCdTe FPA Reliability and Yield Enhancement through Nanostructural Analysis
- Growth of Large Area CZT Crystals
Research funding history
41 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1992–2018). Reported award amounts total $13,447,830. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services