SBIR/STTR Research Award
Large Format Uncooled Focal Plane Array
Award amount
$599,974Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- BFE Acquisition Sub II, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-11-22
- Contract end date
- 2006-06-05
- UEI
- T81KVW31K7J9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- E1.01
Research abstract
Black Forest Engineering has identified innovative modifications in uncooled focal plane array (UFPA) architecture and processing that allows development of large format long wavelength infrared (8-14 ?m) imaging sensors to meet future NASA system requirements for a light weight, low power, and radiation tolerant imager. These modifications allow development of bolometer-based large format UFPA, with a pixel pitch of 20-?m and 1024x768 pixel elements with sensitivity comparable to commercially available UFPAs with 30-?m pixel pitch. The identified modifications are applicable to amorphous silicon bolometer-based UFPAs, such as those manufactured by Raytheon Commercial Infrared in Dallas, Texas.
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.
- Miniaturized small-pixel Uncooled Infrared Imager for Nano Unmanned Air Vehicles
- Miniaturized small-pixel Uncooled Infrared Imager for Nano Unmanned Air Vehicles
- Low Light Short Wave Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
- Digital In-Pixel Uncooled LWIR Bolometer Camera
- Electronic Image Stabilization for Staring Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Sensors
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Research funding history
41 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1992–2018). Reported award amounts total $13,447,830. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services