SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra-Low Heat-Leak YBCO Superconducting Leads for Cryoelectronic Applications
Award amount
$924,601Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- HYPRES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2005-07-11
- Contract end date
- 2010-02-26
- UEI
- Z3BBX7KX4WU5
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- N04-114
Research abstract
A low current, ultra-low heat-leak multi-line DC cable is being developed using the high Tc superconductor YBCO for the purposes of delivering 10s of milliamperes of current from a current source at room temperature to superconducting electronic circuitry operating at about 4 degrees Kelvin. The cable's very low dissipative losses and thermal conductance mean that the 4K stage of a supporting cryocooler platform will suffer a significantly lower heat load, so reducing the size, weight and power consumption of the system. A target performance is for a heat-leak of less than 1 mW per Amp of current given that the cable links a temperature station at 60K to one at 4K.
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.
- Superconductor TDC for SNSPD Array Readout with 2.5 ps Time of Arrival Resolution
- Josephson Parametric Amplifier for Sensitive Broadband RF Receiver
- Radio Frequency Digital-to-Analog Converter for Multi-band Communication
- Digital Interface between Multigigahertz Transceivers and Room Temperature Electronics"
- Lightweight Terrestrial Remote-Recording Integrated Product (LTR-RIP)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Thermal Management Leads
- Ultra-Low Heat-Leak YBCO Superconducting Leads for Cryoelectronic Applications
Research funding history
255 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2025). Reported award amounts total $91,527,586. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce