SBIR/STTR Research Award
Superconductor SQIF Antenna for V/UHF Receivers
Award amount
$1,093,749Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- HYPRES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-02-01
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Z3BBX7KX4WU5
- Solicitation number
- 2005.2
- Topic code
- A05-107
Research abstract
The overall goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate a sensitive, low noise, significantly lower SWaP antenna integrated with low-noise amplifier (LNA) using the superconducting quantum interference filter (SQIF) technology. This antenna will be capable of meeting all requirements for DD(X) class ships for ESM/SIGINT applications in V/UHF frequency bands. The target linear dynamic range is 140 dB. In order to achieve this, HYPRES will develop and demonstrate a SQIF circuit for sensing RF signal and its subsequent low-noise temperature amplification. This circuit will be first developed and perfected using HYPRES"s matured Niobium fabrication technology and then transferred to the YBCO implementation. In order to achieve performance goals, a special flux focusing antenna structure will be designed, implemented and integrated with the SQIF magnetic sensor. Detailed system analysis of antenna configuration will be performed to meet Navy IO/SIGINT V/UHF needs. Finally the SQIF antenna will be tested and evaluated using the NASA antenna range.
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.
- Superconductor TDC for SNSPD Array Readout with 2.5 ps Time of Arrival Resolution
- Josephson Parametric Amplifier for Sensitive Broadband RF Receiver
- Radio Frequency Digital-to-Analog Converter for Multi-band Communication
- Digital Interface between Multigigahertz Transceivers and Room Temperature Electronics"
- Lightweight Terrestrial Remote-Recording Integrated Product (LTR-RIP)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Ultra Low Noise SQIF Amplifier for SATCOM Antennas
- Reduced Size Weight and Power Consumption for SATCOM Antennas
- Reduced Size Weight and Power Consumption for SATCOM Antennas
- Reduced Size Weight and Power Consumption for SATCOM Antennas
- Reduced Size Weight and Power Consumption for SATCOM Antennas
Research funding history
255 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2025). Reported award amounts total $91,527,586. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce