SBIR/STTR Research Award
Enhanced Focal Plane Array Technology
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- VOXTEL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-04-14
- Contract end date
- 2006-01-20
- UEI
- N2KECNUUMBF4
- Solicitation number
- 2005.1
- Topic code
- AF05-291
Research abstract
A high pixel density, large format, near infrared (NIR) focal plane array, capable of response times ranging from 10 ns to DC, will be designed and demonstrated effective in reducing the uncertainty in radiometric field measurements of high-energy laser spot spatial distributions. The germanium photodetectors have excellent NIR sensitivity and are a well established NIR calibration source. The innovation lies in fabricating a large format focal plane array that is fully compatible with high volume, commercial CMOS processes and that can scale with coming generations of deep-submicron technologies. Unlike III-V based approaches, the cost-effective detector arrays have high current handling capability, are readily scaled to 2048 by 2048 resolution, and provide all of the versatility and performance advantages of visible CMOS active pixel focal plane arrays.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Additive Manufacture of Inorganic Freeform Gradient-Index Optics
- Compact High-Degrees-of-Freedom Freeform Beam-Expander Optics
- Multi-Mode Digital Readout Integrated Circuit for Active Imaging and Ranging
- Micron-scale Direct-detection X-ray Detectors
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
235 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2021). Reported award amounts total $86,180,717. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency