SBIR/STTR Research Award
Very Low Cost Photomultiplier Chip for Disposable Gamma Spectrometer
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Recipient company
- Lightspin Technologies Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2009-02-09
- Contract end date
- 2009-08-08
- UEI
- M29HE5CKLCF8
- Solicitation number
- 2008.2
- Topic code
- DTRA082-007
Research abstract
We propose to develop a very low cost Photomultiplier Chip (TM) as a direct replacement for photomultiplier tubes, to help make gamma spectrometers disposably cheap. The detector achieves single-photon sensitivity, wide dynamic range, low gain noise and low dark noise using novel designs in a gallium arsenide-based compound semiconductor. The approach will mitigate risks of scaling to the inch-size needed for a spectrometer system.
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.
- Novel silicon based Photomultiplier Chip
- Ultraviolet and Solar Blind Single Photon Diode Arrays
- Radiation-tolerant, high-density GaInP SPAD arrays
- SiPM Array detector for 50 ps CTR
- InGaAs Photomultiplier Chip Photon Counting Array for 1550 nm Operation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- A Novel Cost Effective Method for Growing High Performance Radiation Sensors
- A Novel Cost Effective Method for Growing High Performance Radiation Sensors
- Low cost fieldable gamma-ray spectrometer
- Inexpensive, disposable radiation detectors
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2021). Reported award amounts total $9,503,040. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation