SBIR/STTR Research Award
IMPROVED SPECTROSCOPIC GAMMA RAY DETECTORS
Award amount
$749,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2007-01-31
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- SCKQA85YU4U4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H-SB05.1-002
Research abstract
Spread of the weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons is a serious threat in the world today. Prevention of the spread of radioactive materials and nuclear weapons has reached a state of heightened urgency in recent years, especially since the events of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. Gamma ray spectrometers are an important tool in homeland defense and monitoring to check the spread of special nuclear materials (such as highly enriched uranium and weapons grade plutonium) and nuclear weapons. An important challenge in homeland security monitoring is not only to detect hidden radioactive materials but also to distinguish them from routinely used radiopharmaceuticals as well as naturally radioactive materials. The goal of the proposed effort is to investigate promising new scintillators for homeland security applications.
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.
- Transparent Conducting Oxide Based On-Chip Modulators for Applications at Cryogenic Temperatures
- Novel Semiconductor-based Tileable Fast Neutron Imager
- Metal?organic chemical vapor deposition of ferroelectric aluminum scandium nitride
- Fast and Dense Glass for High Energy Physics
- Development of Neutron Polarizers and Analyzers via Polarizing Supermirrors by Atomic Layer Deposition
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Novel Quantum Dot Assisted Semiconductor Gamma Ray Detector
- Improved Spectroscopic Gamma Ray Detectors
- High Efficiency, Room Temperature Semiconductor Detectors
- A Spintronic Room Temperature High Purity Germanium Gamma Radiation Spectrometer
Research funding history
930 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $346,950,619. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security