SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-Performance, Radiation-Hard, 2-D, Near-Infrared, Avalanche Photodiode Arrays
Award amount
$596,503Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ADTECH PHOTONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-09-22
- Contract end date
- 2008-09-21
- UEI
- VARSATUMM6P7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- T4.02
Research abstract
AdTech Photonics, in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR) at UMBC, is pleased to submit this Phase II proposal entitled High-Performance, Radiation-Hard, 2-D, Near-Infrared, Avalanche Photodiode Arrays in response to NASA STTR 2004 program solicitation topics: T4.01 Earth Science Sensors and Instruments and T4.02 Space Science Sensors and Instruments. Our goal is to develop high performance avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and arrays with high sensitivity in the 1.06 m and the near-infrared 1-1.6 m wavelength ranges, which will be used in various NASA applications including interplanetary free space communications, remote sensing, 3-D lidar atmospheric, terrain, and vegetation studies from airborne, UAV, balloon, and space-borne platforms. All these applications will benefit from the improved sensitivity, photon counting rate, and radiation hardness, which will result from this research project.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Accelerated Burn-In Process for High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
- Quantum Cascade Laser Manufacturing Cost Reduction
- High-Performance, Radiation-Hard, 2-D, Near-Infrared, Avalanche Photodiode Arrays
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Research funding history
11 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2025). Reported award amounts total $4,271,599. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation