SBIR/STTR Research Award
STRAINED SUPERLATTICE INASSB FOR LWIR DETECTOR
Award amount
$56,944Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Electro-optek Corp
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A PROPOSAL IS MADE TO DEVELOP STRAINED SUPERLATTICE (SSL) STRUCTURE OF INAS(1-X)SB(X) BY MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY (MBE) FOR FABRICATING LONG WAVELENGTH INFRARED (LWIR) DETECTORS. A SPECIAL BUFFERED SUBSTRATE WILL BE USED FOR THE INAS(1-X)SB(X) EPITAXY, AIMED AT ACHIEVING UNIFORM EPI LAYER HAVING A CUTOFF WAVELENGTH OF 12 MICRON AT 77K. IN PHASE I, SPECIAL MBE FIXTURES WILL BE DESIGNED AND MBE PROCESSES WILL BE DELINATED. THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM WILL LEAD TO MORE REPRODUCIBLE, UNIFORM AND SENSITIVE DETECTORS THAN THOSE OF LWIR HGCDTE.
Technology keywords
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