SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additive Manufacture of Conformal Gradient Index Apertures
Award amount
$139,992Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Nanovox, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-17
- Contract end date
- 2024-01-16
- UEI
- CTV6QPMF8C97
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-063
Research abstract
This project aims to develop additively manufactured gradient index (GRIN) lenses for wideband use in naval communications, radar, or electronic surveillance. The lenses will be made using nanocomposite materials, and direct print multi-materials additive manufacturing. The goal is to achieve at least a 10-to-1 bandwidth, with a wideband 2-40 GHz operation. The lenses will be thin and conformal with flat and curved outer profiles. The complex dielectric properties of nanocomposite materials will be characterized, and mechanical testing will be performed. The project will demonstrate the ability to optimize aperture performance using high order aspheric GRIN profiles, 3D GRIN profiles, that vary radially and axially, and using freeform GRIN profiles. Proof-of-concept GRIN lenses will be fabricated and compared to modeling and simulated results.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Additively Manufactured Vertical Photonic Interconnects
- Resilient, Multi-functional Electromagnetic Skins and Radomes
- Additive Manufacture of Conformal Antennas for UAV
- Additively Manufactured Nanocomposite Laser Eye Protection
- Low Loss, Asymmetric Aperture-Matched Microlens Arrays
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Hybrid Gradient Index Lenses via Additive Manufacturing of Low-Loss Materials
- Additive Manufactured Low-Loss Small-Size Low-Profile Conformal GRIN Lens in the K-Band
- Additive Manufactured Low-Loss Small-Size Low-Profile Conformal GRIN Lens in the K-Band
- High-dielectric-constant composite material for additive manufacturing of GRIN apertures
- Advanced Hybrid Gradient Index Lenses via Additive Manufacturing of Low-Loss Materials
Research funding history
27 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2025). Reported award amounts total $12,615,291. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration