SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low-Cost Technologies for Manufacturing of Thin Film Lithium Niobate
Award amount
$199,949Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- EOSPACE INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-08-14
- Contract end date
- 2026-05-14
- UEI
- JAUFFPDZBAG2
- Solicitation number
- 25.A
- Topic code
- AF25A-T001
Research abstract
The objective for this proposed effort is to develop alternative low-cost manufacturing processes for producing high quality thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) that do not rely on the prevailing "Smart-Cut" ion implantation technique. These processes will be scalable and versatile, able to produce a variety of film thicknesses, crystallographic orientations, and on multiple substrates at low cost with minimal NRE.Proposed technologies will have clear compatibility with existing TFLN use cases and show a path towards widespread commercial use, ideally by providing homogenous 3-4 inch wafers of TFLN on relevant substrates such as quartz.
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 Performance Electro-optic Modulator Designed for Military Aircraft
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- Reduced Integrated Optical Circuits (IOC) Halfwave Voltage (Vpi) for improved Size Weight and Power (SWaP) in Interferometric Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes (
- Flexible IFOG integrated optical circuit for integration in reduced form-factor sensors
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low Cost Technologies for Manufacturing of Thin Film Lithium Niobate
- Low Cost Technologies for Manufacturing of Thin Film Lithium Niobate
- Wafer-Scale Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) Substrate Solution for Integrated Photonics and RF Acoustic Filters
Research funding history
61 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2026). Reported award amounts total $28,283,782. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense