SBIR/STTR Research Award
COMPACT IMPLANTABLE POWER SOURCES
Award amount
$48,722Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- 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
THE AIM OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO DEVELOP ENERGY-DENSE LONG-LIVED IMPLANTABLE POWER SOURCES RANGING FROM MICROWATTS TO SEVERAL WATTS. THE CORE OF THE DEVICE IS RADIOISOTOPE-POWERED INDIUM PHOSPHIDE VOLTAIC CELL EXPECTED TO ACHIEVE ENERGY DENSITIES OVER TEN THOUSAND TIMES THAT OF THE BEST CHEMICAL BATTERIES. THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED RADIATION DAMAGE RESISTANCE AND ANNEALING PROPERTIES OF INDIUM PHOSPHIDE REMOVE THE FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS OF EARLIER SILICON-BASED SYSTEMS. THIS PERMITS CONSIDERATION OF HIGH ENERGY BETA AND ALPHA EMITTERS TO ACIEVE HIGH POWER AND LONG LIFE WITH VIRTUALLY NO DETECTABLE EXTERNAL RADIATION. PHASE I RESEARCH WILL ADD TO THE EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL DATA REQUIRED FOR BUILDING AND TESTING PROTOTYPE CELLS.
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