SBIR/STTR Research Award
AN ACTIVE HTS SWITCH FOR MICROWAVE CIRCUITS
Award amount
$58,814Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SUPERCONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- N2JPLBX5FQ24
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE ADVANTAGES OF HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS COULD BE WIDELY UTILIZED IN EW SYSTEMS IF A LOW LOSS, HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE SWITCH, COMPATIBLE WITH THE CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT COULD BE DEMONSTRATED. GAAS FET SWITCHES AND PIN DIODE SWITCHES ARE THE MAIN SWITCH TECHNOLOGIES USED IN MICROWAVE CIRCUITS, BUT NEITHER TYPE IS OPTIMUM FOR USE WITH HTS DEVICES. STI HAS PROPOSED AN INNOVATIVE THREE TERMINAL DEVICE, BASED ON THE KNOWN ANISOTROPY OF HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS, TO ACHIEVE LOW LOSS SWITCHING. PHASE I WILL BE A FEASIBILITY STUDY TO DETERMINE THE DIFFERENCE IN CRITICAL CURRENT OF AN A-AXIS FILM IN THE C- AND AB-AXIS DIRECTIONS. A SIMPLE SWITCH WILL BE FABRICATED TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS CONCEPT.
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.
- Electrically-Small Superconducting Wide-Bandwidth Receiver
- High Transition Temperature SQUID Arrays for HF Direction Finding
- MgB2-Coated RF Cavities for Free Electron Laser
- Reduced Nonlinearity Superconducting Thin Films for Transmit and Receive Applications
- Reduced Nonlinearity Superconducting Thin Films for Transmit and Receive Applications
Research funding history
44 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2012). Reported award amounts total $10,247,372. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce