SBIR/STTR Research Award
LWIR Focal Plane Array Based on Type-II InAs/GaSb Superlattices
Award amount
$1,249,530Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- MP Technologies, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-09-23
- Contract end date
- 2006-09-23
- UEI
- UHNEBSGY17T6
- Solicitation number
- 2002.2
- Topic code
- MDA02-049
Research abstract
Infrared photon sensors presently available for THAAD applications, with a cutoff wavelength ~8 micron, are based on HgCdTe. These suffer from a high non-uniformity and thus a high focal plane array cost. The most promising alternative is III-V compound semiconductor superlattices based on arsenides and antimonides, such as type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices, which are expected to exhibit higher quantum efficiency and uniformity than current systems. This Phase II project plans to advance the technology for type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices in order to demonstrate a prototype 256x320 focal plane array with an ~8 micron cutoff wavelength.
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.
- Ring-Cavity Surface-Emitting Quantum Cascade Laser Array
- High-performance 1024x1024 MWIR/LWIR Dual-band InAs/GaSb Type-II Superlattice-based Camera System
- Array Packaging of High Power, High Efficiency, Quantum Cascade Lasers
- III-Nitride Based High-Power 340 nm Lasers
- Surface Leakage Suppression in LWIR Type-II Superlattice Photodetectors Using Electrical Gating Technique
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Multicolor VLWIR 3-D Stacked Integrated Focal Plane and Filtering Architectures
- Multi-color HgCdTe Focal Plane Technology
Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2015). Reported award amounts total $21,029,657. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration