SBIR/STTR Research Award
HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNING RF PROBE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRICCONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS
Award amount
$40,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- InterScience, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- MTL5E2H5J946
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY AND EXCESS CARRIER LIFETIME ARE TWO OFTHE MOST IMPORTANT PARAMETERS THAT DETERMINE THE PERFORMANCEOF SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION AS PHOTODETECTORS. THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN NON-DESTRUCTIVE, HIGH RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS OF THESE CHARACTERISTICS IS ONEOF THE BASIC PROBLEMS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND FABRICATION OF SUCH MATERIALS. A TECHNIQUE TO MEASURE THE CONDUCTIVITY BASED ON SCANNING THE SAMPLES WITH A RF PROBE CAPABLE OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF A FEW MICRONS IS PROPOSED. BY MEASURING THE DECAY OF THE CONDUCTIVITY FOLLOWING EXCITATION BY A LIGHT PULSE, THE EXCESS CARRIER LIFETIME CAN ALSO BE DETERMINED. A PROGRAM TO DETERMINE THE LIMITINGSENSITIVITY AND RESOLUTION BY TWO VARIATIONS OF THE BASIC APPROACH IS PROPOSED FOR THE PHASE I EFFORT.
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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- Portable Biometric System (PBS) for Identity Dominance
- Portable Biometric System (PBS) for Identity Dominance
- Ultra-wide Field-of-View Endoscope for White Light and Narrow Band Imaging
- C-View Semi-rigid Endoscope for Urological Applications
Research funding history
84 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1984–2011). Reported award amounts total $18,838,228. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration