SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lo%f Frequency Spark Gap (Plasma) Transducer
Award amount
$746,502Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MASSA PRODUCTS CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- JFCTVSF7T9A3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
1The spark gap underwater sound transducer is a 50-year-old technology which was studied at length during the late 1950's, principally by Edgerton at MIT and by Caulfield at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Originally it was intended as a low-frequency sound source for sub-bottom seismic exploration. In Phase I, the spark gap transducer will be studied, analyzed and converted from a seismic transducer to a transducer more suited for compact-size low-frequency sonar applications. This will be accomplished by integrating the spark gap source with mechanical or hydraulic resonators or wave filters. A breadboard model will be constructed and tested.
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.
- High-Power, Low-Frequency, Textured PMN-PT Underwater Projector
- 3-inch SONAR Countermeasure
- High-Power, Low-Frequency, Textured PMN-PT Underwater Projector
- Very High Powered, Low Frequency Underwater Projectors
- Very High Powered, Low Frequency Underwater Projectors
Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2020). Reported award amounts total $3,979,029. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense