SBIR/STTR Research Award
Novel Piezoelectric Deformable Mirror Systems for Retinal Imaging
Award amount
$100,277Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- Microscale, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- JEHLAUR1Z3N6
- Solicitation number
- PHS2010-2
- Topic code
- NEI
Research abstract
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): SBIR project aims to develop a novel compact, large stroke, low-cost Silicon MicroMembrane Deformable Mirror (SiMM DM) system to be used in ocular Adaptive Optics (AO) for improving the resolution of retinal imaging. Given its superior performance, high reliability, low cost, and compactness, the DM system holds the promise of enabling true commercialization for AO technology into conventional ophthalmic instruments including fundus camera, confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (SLO) and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems and to be widely used in biomedical microscopes and laboratory tools for eye research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: In order to maximize spatial resolution to a micro scale of single retinal cells and to improve visual performance of the eye to supervision, correction of the ocular aberrations to make the eye free of aberration is necessary. The project aims to develop a novel large pixel-stroke (up to 50- 5m) deformable mirror capable of achieving up to 99% correction in clinical population.
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.
- Manufacturing and Tooling Optimizationfor Mirror Quality Assurance of High-Actuator-Count Deformable Mirrors
- Manufacturing Optimization of High-Actuator-Count Deformable Mirrors for Mirror Quality and Actuator Yield Assurance
- Next-Generation Deformable Mirrors for Astronomical Coronagraphy by Utilizing PMN-PT Single Crystal Stack Actuators in integration with Driver ASIC
- Next-Generation Deformable Mirrors for Astronomical Coronagraphy by Utilizing PMN-PT Single Crystal Stack Actuators in integration with Driver ASIC
- Single Crystal Piezoelectric Stack Actuator DM with Integrated Low-Power HVA-Based Driver ASIC
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Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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Research funding history
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2021). Reported award amounts total $3,303,651. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense