SBIR/STTR Research Award
SUPERCONDUCTING MILLIMETER WAVE MIXER
Award amount
$483,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1990Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- 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 FOCUS OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO FABRICATE A JOSEPHSON JUNCTION BY EITHER AN INTENTIONALLY GROWN LATTICE-FAULT TECHNIQUE OR BY FABRICATING A PROXIMITY-EFFECT JUNCTION FROMSUPERCONDUCTING FILMS BASED ON THE THALLIUM SYSTEM. THESE JUNCTIONS WILL BE CHARACTERIZED FOR NOISE, RF JOSEPHSON EFFECT, AND MIXING AT 61 GHZ. USING THESE TECHNIQUES, A HIGH QUALITY, REPRODUCIBLE MANUFACTURABLE MIXER DEVICE CAN BE DEVELOPED. SUCH HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING MILLIMETER WAVE JOSEPHSON DEVICES WILL FIND APPLICATION AS LOW NOISE VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS, PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS, AND AS ACTIVE ELEMENTS IN SUPERCONDUCTING ANALOGTO DIGITAL CONVERTES AT RATES UP TO 20 GIGASAMPLES PER SECOND.
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