SBIR/STTR Research Award
Inductorless Technology for RF Integrated Circuits
Award amount
$300,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Neillen Technologies Corp
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
NEILLEN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (NTC)'S INVENTIONS ARE BASED ON THE UNIQUE LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR MODELING OF BIPOLAR/UNIPOLAR ACTIVE RF COMPONENTS, WHICH PRODUCES ADVANCED RF CIRCUITS NOT REQUIRING TRADITIONAL COILS AND TRANSFORMERS FOR TUNING AND MATCHING FUNCTIONS. NTC'S CIRCUITS ARE DISTINGUISHABLE BECAUSE THEY: 1) SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPERFORM CONVENTIONAL RF CIRCUITS (IN MANY INSTANCES, BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE); 2) ARE MORE COST-EFFECTIVE THAN CONVENTIONAL RF CIRCUITS (SINCE THEY ARE LOW-POWER, LOW-NOISE, SMALL-SIZE, AND REPRODUCIBLE); 3) PERFORM NEW FUNCTIONS THROUGHOUT THE FREQUENCY SPECTRUM (THUS ALLOWING NEW APPLICATIONS); 4) MAY BE REDUCED TO MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ICs) -- A FIRST IN THE RF ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. NTC PROPOSES TASKS FOR THE ANALYSIS, ENGINEERING, AND BREAD-BOARD MODELING OF SIX INDUCTORLESS RF CIRCUITS: ULTRA-STABLE/"AGELESS" OSCILLATORS, VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCOs), TUNED AMPLIFIERS, TUNED BANDPASS FILTERS, HARMONIC GENERATORS, AND CAPACITIVE MIXERS.
Technology keywords
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