SBIR/STTR Research Award
Passive Cooling of Laser Diodes for Use on Satellites
Award amount
$99,977Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- k Technology Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2008-02-13
- Contract end date
- 2009-08-13
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2007.3
- Topic code
- MDA07-007
Research abstract
A novel concept integrating, k-Core® (a material system which consists of encapsulated annealed pyrolytic graphite) saddle with a loop heat pipe evaporator is proposed. Due to five fold increase compared to the baseline aluminum, the proposed concept can enable much higher heat flux levels at lesser resistance to the radiator. In addition, the proposed concept will not have any weight penalty compared to baseline aluminum. During phase I, a saddle, designed for a LHP evaporator will be designed, fabricated and evaluated towards meeting the program goals of 60 W cooling at heat flux of 700 W/cm2
Technology keywords
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