SBIR/STTR Research Award
Fiber Optic FTIR
Award amount
$69,022Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- NanoTek, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED EMISSION SPECTROMETRY (EMISSION FTIR) HAS BEEN A STANDARD METHOD FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSIS. EXISTING EMISSION FTIR SPECTROMETER IS LARGE, HEAVY AND POWER INTENSIVE. THIS PROGRAM SEEKS TO DEVELOP A MINIATURE, SENSITIVE, ROBUST, LOW POWER AND LOW COST FIBER OPTIC EMISSION FTIR FOR THE IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF COMPOUNDS OF BIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE IN SPACE. A PROTOTYPE EMISSION FTIR WILL BE ASSEMBLED AND EVALUATED IN THIS PHASE I PROGRAM TO ESTABLISH THE PROOF-OF-CONCEPT
Technology keywords
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