SBIR/STTR Research Award
NECTAR: Nanometrology for Enhanced Calibration and Transferability with Atomic References
Award amount
$257,367Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- National Institute of Standards and Technology – CHIPS
- Recipient company
- VAPOR CELL TECHNOLOGIES dba Apex Atomics
- Proposal award date
- 2024-09-17
- Contract end date
- 2027-03-30
- UEI
- JBL9ZKN6S8K8
- Solicitation number
- 2024-SBIR-CHIPS-01
- Topic code
- 6
Research abstract
Vapor Cell Technologies (VCT) seeks to produce advanced dimensional metrology tools for modern semiconductor fabrication equipment to minimize the gap in the physical-digital divide, amplifying the accuracy of digital twins in the transferability, production, and sustainment of semiconductor products. VCT will construct novel displacement measurement tools that are traceable to the SI meter based on high technology readiness level (TRL) and manufacturing readiness level (MRL) technologies. As a result, semiconductor metrology equipment will be lower-cost, more performant, and connected to system optimization tools to improve domestic chip manufacturing.
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.
- SBIR Phase II:Chip-Scale Optical Frequency Standards
- Additively Manufacture Hyperfine Optomechanical Laser Discipline (AM-HOLD) Module
- STTR Phase I: Feasibility Study of Chip-Scale Iodine Vapor Cell Fabrication
Research funding history
4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2021–2024). Reported award amounts total $1,618,636. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Space Administration