SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra-Low Cost Metalens for EO/IR and Early Threat Warning Systems
Award amount
$1,249,883Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- APEX MICRODEVICES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-02-09
- Contract end date
- 2024-11-11
- UEI
- UAF8CLA18KK5
- Solicitation number
- X23.4
- Topic code
- AFX234-DCSO2
Research abstract
Optical elements play a crucial role in many modern EO/IR sensor systems, early threat warning systems and for consumer applications such as cellphones and augmented reality hardware. The miniaturization trend poses a challenge to optics since conventiona
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.
- Wafer-Scale Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) Substrate Solution for Integrated Photonics and RF Acoustic Filters
- Metaoptics Enabled, Ultra-Compact, Germanium free, LWIR Imager Design
- Metaoptic Enabled MWIR Micro Lenslet Arrays
- Bottom-up Scalable Epitaxial Growth of Gallium Oxide with Integrated Thermal Management for Next-Gen Electronics
- Ultra-Fast Solid State Spatial Light Modulator
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- AeroISU: Real-time Visibility and Mission Readiness of Industrial Storage Units (ISU), Containers & other USAF Equipment
- Trans Astronautica’s Sutter Turn Key Observatory
- Quantum Secure Identification
- Low-Probability-of-Intercept Terahertz Communications for Air Force Applications
- Accrete Argonaut Sequential
Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2023–2025). Reported award amounts total $4,379,489. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense