SBIR/STTR Research Award
Room-Temperature Near-Infrared Camera
Award amount
$49,800Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- LGMFFHJ28878
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Sensors Unlimited will develop an infrared camera that sees in the dark, yet costs less than $10,000 and requires no cooling. Present-day cameras for the near-infrared spectrum (wavelength range 1-3 microns) require liquid nitrogen cooling which makes them bulky and expensive. Our novel camera will be based on an array of 128 X 128 detector pixels of indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs), which has high sensitivity and operates at room temperature, bonded to a hybrid silicon multiplexer "readout. A camera designed to "see" out to 1.7 microns will be demonstrated in Phase I. The Phase II effort will incorporate any advances made in multiplexer design and/or monolithic detector/amplifier "integrated circuits" that might be developed in other Sensors Unlimited R&D programs, and the latest InGaAs material for the 1-3um spectrum. Applications for the camera include remote sensing (satellite imaging), pollution monitoring, and night vision.
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.
- Turn-key Near-Infrared Photon-Counting Detector Module for LIDAR Applications
- 1280x1024 InGaAs Camera for Visible and Short-wave Infrared Imaging
- Manufacturable Geiger-Mode InGaAs/InP Avalanche Photodiodes for Near-Infrared Photon Counting
- A 1920x1080 Pixel Visible and Shortwave Infrared Focal Plane Array and Camera for Night Vision Imaging
- A 1920x1080 Pixel Visible and Shortwave Infrared Focal Plane Array and Camera for Night Vision Imaging
Research funding history
78 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1992–2005). Reported award amounts total $17,490,172. 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 Commerce