SBIR/STTR Research Award
Liquid Crystal Design and Synthesis for Novel Electro-Optic Devices
Award amount
$99,907Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-08-01
- Contract end date
- 2006-05-01
- UEI
- JDCKBJDFLLL5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- AF05-T029
Research abstract
Vescent Photonics, in collaboration with David Walba at the University of Colorado, proposes to develop, synthesize and test liquid crystals that will be suitable for a novel electro-optic design. This design enables unprecedented electro-optic phase delay (>1mm), with very low loss and rapid response time. Innovative liquid crystal formulations, including de Vries phase smectic materials, will be tailored to this new implementation. The combined performance is expected to enable numerous useful devices including spectral filters, tunable lasers, beam steerers, and many more.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Compact Optical Cavities for Quantum Photonics and Integrated Timing Solutions (COCQPITS)
- Photonic Reconfigurable Optical-frequency-comb-based Microwave sensor for Intelligence and Signals Exploitation (PROMISE)
- Dual-Comb, Hyperspectral Nanoscopy of Biological Compounds at the Shot-Noise Limit
- Cooling Lasers for Optical Clocks in Space (CLOCS)
- Rare Earth Amplifier Chips (REACh)
Awards with the same topic code
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- LC Materials for an Innovative EO Architecture: A New Approach for Non-Mechanical Beamsteering
- Innovative Electro-Optically Responsive Filters Using High Figure-of-Merit Liquid Crystals Materials
- High Performance Liquid Crystals for Infrared Applications
- High-Performance Infrared Liquid Crystals
- High Performance Liquid Crystals for Infrared Applications
Research funding history
81 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $26,537,716. 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, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency