SBIR/STTR Research Award
PASSIVELY COOLED INSB DETECTOR ARRAYS
Award amount
$425,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- 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 PASSIVELY-COOLED DETECTOR ARRAY TECHNOLOGY IN THE MID WAVELENGTH INFRARED (MWIR) REGION IS BEING SOUGHT FOR SPACEBORNE SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS. WE HAVE PROPOSED TO USE THE MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY (MBE) TECHNOLOGY TO FABRICATE HIGH-QUALITY INSB MATERIAL AND HIGHDETECTIVITY DETECTOR ARRAYS. THE RESULTANT ARRAYS, WHEN OPERATED AT TEMPERATURES ACHIEVABLE WITH PASSIVE COOLING WILL HAVE A DETECTIVITY COMPARABLE TO CURRENT DETECTOR OPERATING AT 100K. THE MILESTONES FOR PHASE I OF A THREE-PHASE PROGRAM ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND DEFINITION OF THE MBE PROCESSES TO ESTABLISH HIGH-QUALITY INSB EPITAXIAL LAYERS ON SUITABLE MWIR TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATES SUITABLE FOR FLIP-CHIP HYBRID ARRAY FABRICATION.
Technology keywords
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