SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Quantum Efficiency Fast Detectors for the Readout of Scintillators for Gamma Ray Detection
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- AGILTRON, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2007-04-01
- Contract end date
- 2007-09-07
- UEI
- K33SCYLG8EN1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H-SB06.2-007
Research abstract
Agiltron proposes to demonstrate a breakthrough detector for readout of scintillators for gamma ray detection that overcomes the quantum efficiency and high voltage limits of current PMTs and APDs. It holds the promise to improve the current scintillator detector resolution by at least 30 percent without the need for a high voltage power supply, and can be fabricated at a low cost. This new photomultiplier detector possesses many unique attractive properties that do not exist in any existing readouts for nuclear radiation detectors, such as PMTs, APDs. The Phase I work will demonstrate a detector element with high quantum efficiency, high gain at ultra low bias voltage, and, integrated with the scintillator crystal, the spectral resolution for gamma ray detection. A fully functional device will be developed in Phase II.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Awards with the same topic code
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- High Quantum Efficiency, Fast Detectors for the Readout of Scintillators for Gamma-Ray Detection
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- High Quantum Efficiency Fast Detectors for Readout of Scintillators for Gamma Ray Detection
Research funding history
234 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2017). Reported award amounts total $47,152,840. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security