SBIR/STTR Research Award
SOLAR-BLIND UVC AND VUV DETECTORS
Award amount
$1,000,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- ADROIT MATERIALS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-07-22
- Contract end date
- 2026-07-31
- UEI
- LSK7AWA81NA1
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-070
Research abstract
As an alternative to MCPs and PMTs, it is proposed to use AlGaN-based UV detectors. These detectors are based on ultra-wide bandgap AlGaN, which allows for solar blind detection of light with wavelength <220 nm, high quantum efficiency (70% at 190 nm), small footprint and weight (<10 g, 170 mm3), stable operation with long lifetime (>10,000 hrs), large detection area (>1 mm2), wide operating temperature window (-50 – 400°C), and radiation hardness.
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.
- Novel Quantum Sensors Based on AlN
- Solar blind UVC detectors for efficient plume detection
- MMICs on Single Crystal AlN for Extreme RF Systems
- Solar-blind UVC detectors for efficient plume detection
- 1.2 kV class GaN on GaN vertical U-MOSFET with reach through protection and shielding by Mg implantation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Solar Blind UV Silicon Photodiodes with Narrow Band Interference Filters
- A 4H-SiC Thin-Film Process for the Manufacture of UV-Detecting VISIR-Blind Integrated Circuits
- Solar blind UVC and VUV detectors
- Ultraviolet Solar Blind Ga2O3 Photodetectors for Microsatellites
Research funding history
32 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2012–2025). Reported award amounts total $15,842,200. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration