SBIR/STTR Research Award
Spectral Shields: Advanced High-Reflectance Microstructures for MWIR-LWIR sensor Resilience
Award amount
$203,949Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- SPECTRAL ENERGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-01-02
- Contract end date
- 2025-07-14
- UEI
- C3DAVH4VJDG3
- Solicitation number
- 24.B
- Topic code
- A24B-T003
Research abstract
The objective of the proposed STTR research effort by Spectral Energies, LLC and Penn State University aims to develop and manufacture high-efficiency, high-damage-threshold, large-format microstructure high reflector for the Army. This is achieved through advanced 2D grating micro-structure waveguide resonance and coating design and simulation, high-fidelity simulations to predict device optical response, advanced electron-beam (e-beam) lithography, conformal coating via e-beam evaporation, and thorough structural, optical response, and high energy laser device examination.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Turbulent boundary layer (TBL) Drag Reduction Flight Demonstration via Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators
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- Novel 2D plasma actuator for rotating detonation augmentors
- NanoSPARC: High-Speed Additive Manufacturing for LWIR Meta-Optics
Awards with the same topic code
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- Metasurface Filter for Sensor Protection
- High reflector microstructure for 1 micro continuous wave light
Research funding history
272 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2026). Reported award amounts total $120,780,215. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture