SBIR/STTR Research Award
MOCVD OF INT1SB FOR LONG-WAVELENGTH IR DETECTORS
Award amount
$61,185Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Spire Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- RG46KJGARZF4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Spire proposes to design and fabricate In(-1-x)Tl(-x)Sb long-wavelength (8 to 12 micrometers) infrared detectors. Theoretical calculations predict that InTlSb offers many potential advantages over HgCdTe and III-V quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIP). Its higher mechanical strength and better compositional uniformity promise improved focal plane array performance and yield. Also, since it is lattice-matched to InSb, the substrate cost is lower than that of the CdZnTe in which HgCdTe is grown. In comparison to QWIP, InTlSb offers normal incidence detection and higher quantum efficiency. In(1-x)Tl(x)Sb with Tl compositions greater than 5% will be achieved by raising the cyclopentadienylthallium (CPTl) bubbler temperature to 150 degrees celcius and using a new Tl source, isopropylcyclopentadienylthallium, which has a higher vapor pressure than CPTI.
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.
- Portable Laser Hazard Identification and Monitoring System
- Nano-Crystalline Ceramic Coatings for the Reduction of Sliding Resistance of Orth
- A Synthetic Biology Toolbox for Natural Product Discovery from Actinomycetes
- Next-Generation, LED-based, Adjustable Spectrum, Pulsed Solar Simulator
- Nano-Crystalline Ceramic Coatings for the Reduction of Sliding Resistance of Orth
Research funding history
429 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2014). Reported award amounts total $73,907,551. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce