SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low-Noise Avalanche Photodiodes for Mid-IR Applications
Award amount
$99,843Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SVT ASSOCIATES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-09-30
- Contract end date
- 2005-06-30
- UEI
- MLVQMLJLC139
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- AF04-T021
Research abstract
Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are the detector of choice for low noise, high speed, high sensitivity photodetectors. Applications in the mid-IR (3-5 micron) include optical trace gas detection, LADAR, quantum cryptography and targeting countermeasures. Currently there are no commercially available APDs operating in this wavelength range. To address this need, this Phase I program will investigate using the III-V ternary alloy InAsSb for APD applications. This compound semiconductor alloy has a low bandgap energy suitable for absorbing mid-IR photons. The InAsSb material will be combined with a p-i-n avalanche multiplication structure in a unique manner to create a low noise 3-5 micron wavelength APDs.
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.
- Efficient EMI/RFI attenuation by GaN-based coating on spinel windows
- GaAsSb/AlGaAsP Superlattice Polarized Electron Source
- Plasmonic Enhanced Type-II Superlattice Focal Plane Arrays
- GaAsSb/AlGaAs Superlattice High-Polarization Electron Source
- GaAsSb/AlGaAsP Superlattice Polarized Electron Source
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Thermoelectrically Cooled MWIR Avalanche Photodiodes on Silicon Substrates
- Thermoelectrically Cooled MWIR Avalanche Photodiodes on Silicon Substrates
- Low-Noise Avalanche Photodiodes for Midwave Infrared (2 to 5 um) Applications
- InAsSb Strain-Balanced Avalanche Photodiodes with 4-5 micron Cutoff Wavelength
Research funding history
165 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2014). Reported award amounts total $29,785,067. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation