SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Current Cathodes with Controlled A-K Gap Glosure
Award amount
$56,578Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Tetra Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DQDEMSJD89L5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE PROPOSED PROGRAM USES POLARIZATION REVERSAL ON FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS THAT YIELD CURRENT DENSITIES IN THE kA/cm2 RANGE. THE FAST CHANGE IN THE POLARIZATION VECTOR WITHIN THE MATERIAL RESULTS IN A TRANSITION THAT LIBERATES THE POLARIZATION INDUCED CHARGES (4 P) RESULTING IN A CURRENT PULSE LIMITED ONLY BY THE TRANSITION TIME AND SPACE CHARGE EFFECTS. THE PROPOSED PROGRAM WILL DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY FOR MICROSECOND LONG PULSES. THE USE OF FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL AS THE A-K STRUCTURE SHOULD CONTROL PLASMA FORMATIONS THAT RESULT IN GAP CLOSURE.
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.
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- Compact System for Safe Removal of Conformal Coatings from Electronic Printed Circuit Boards
- A Compact X-Ray Laser
- Advanced Impulse Acoustic Source
- Electron Beam Destruction and Removal of Volatile Organic Chemicals and Metal in the Presence of Titanium Dioxide
Research funding history
54 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–1996). Reported award amounts total $9,185,480. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration