SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra-Efficient UHF Band Power Amplifiers
Award amount
$166,451Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- RECON RF, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-19
- Contract end date
- 2024-02-02
- UEI
- ZNRMSSM3QSZ7
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_23_P1
- Topic code
- S11
Research abstract
bull;In support of NASArsquo;s Ecosystems SAR (EcoSAR) Mission, which is to enable unprecedented two- and three-dimensional fine scale measurements of terrestrial ecosystem and biomass, this project will develop a state-of-the-art (SOA) UHF Band monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) Power-Amplifier for the EcoSAR instrumentrsquo;s 32 radar electronics units. This project will significantly advance Power Added Efficiency beyond present day commercial off the shelf offerings operating on the UHF Band, and specifically 335-535 MHz, achieving a TRL 3-4 MMIC power amplifier with over 25 Watts output power, power added efficiency (PAE) of greater than 70%, and power gain of over 35 dB with less than 1 dB gain flatness over the band; consistent with the requirements of EcoSAR. This UHF-band GaN MMIC SSPAnbsp;performance will benbsp;at the very forefront of present-day technology. The efficiency advantages resulting from this projectrsquo;s custom developed gt;70% PAE UHF MMIC 25-watt power amplifiers will be multiplied across 32 polarimetric (dual) transmit/receive (T/R) modules which reside inside the aircraft fuselage within a radar electronics unit (REU).
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.
- Advanced Semiconductor Production of Next-Gen X-Band SSPAs for USAF Radar, EW, & Comms
- Ultra-Low-Noise Cryogenic HEMT Amplifiers for HEP Applications
- Ultra-Efficient X-Band Solid State Power Amplifier for RF Accelerators
- Next-Gen RF Transistor Models for Ultra-Efficient RFICs
- Ultra-Efficient P/UHF Band Power Amplifiers
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- AN ULTRA-FAST SAMPLING ADC ASIC INTERFACING WITH FPGAS
- Conductive Solid Surface Deployable Antenna for Space-based Remote Sensing
- Airborne Spectroscopic Static Temperature Sensor
- Advanced Precision Design of Origami Inspired Deployable Metaoptic LiDAR Aperture
- Noise Sources for 0.1 - 1.0 THz
Research funding history
14 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2025). Reported award amounts total $9,224,520. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce