SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Infrared (IR) Sensor Components for Missile Defense
Award amount
$99,994Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- MILLENNIUM ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION CO.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-09-29
- Contract end date
- 2007-03-23
- UEI
- MHJ2S6K2LKP5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- MDA06-T011
Research abstract
Millennium Engineering and Integration Company and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have teamed to propose development of an entirely new type of infrared detector that has the potential for providing significantly higher Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) detectivity for detector temperatures in the 180-300K temperature range than is presently available. This new detector exploits means of enhancing field emission from Carbon nanotubes, thereby enabling modulation of the field emission current by electrons excited in the Carbon nanotubes by absorption of IR thermal energy. This arrangement results in a thermal detector that has some characteristics of a photovoltaic detector because the rate at which electrons are emitted from the CCNTs is proportional to incident photon flux. Based upon this innovative new concept, we hope to achieve significant performance advantages over currently available thermoelectrically cooled or stabilized LWIR detectors.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Momentum Device Actuated Canfield (MoDAC) Manipulator
- Automated Flight Safety Inference Engine (AFSIE) System
- Low Melting Electrolyte Thermal Battery
- Development and Delivery of a Prototype Coating Maintenance Assessment Device
- Reduced Temperature, High Power Thermal Battery Chemistry
Awards with the same topic code
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- Advanced Infrared (IR) Sensor Components for Missile Defense
- Development of Dilute Nitride SL Technology for VLWIR Detectors
- Advanced Infrared (IR) Sensor Components for Missile Defense
- Passivation of Type II Superlattices for IR Sensors
- Development of Dilute Nitride SL Technology for VLWIR Detectors
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2015). Reported award amounts total $2,670,040. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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