Commercialization of Perovskite Gamma-Ray Sensors for the Warfighter

This work aims to push the commercialization of perovskite crystals in a direction that is useful to the warfighter.  H3D will rely on Actinia, a startup company that is bringing the perovskite inventions from Northwestern to market to provide samples of perovskite.  Actinia will grow the crystals and fabricate the contacts and H3D will do final assembly and testing of the detectors.  H3D will use an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that is capable of waveform sampling and handling the long collection time observed in perovskites.  If provided samples of sufficient quantity these perovskite crystals will be a drop-in replacement for the CZT in the S400X device from H3D that is capable of radiation imaging and spectroscopy and already used by customers worldwide with CZT. The first objective is to prove that commercial perovskite samples are of adequate quality and can initially perform similar to other room temperature semiconductors.  However, we will immediately transition to a series of potentially destructive tests in attempt to identify any major barriers to bringing this technology to the warfighter and their challenging operating environments.