SBIR/STTR Research Award
Microfabricated, vacuum-packaged alkali reference cells
Award amount
$149,007Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Twinleaf LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-12-22
- Contract end date
- 2023-12-26
- UEI
- KVW6Q3KKMY83
- Solicitation number
- 22.2
- Topic code
- SF222-0019
Research abstract
This project develops the commercial capability to fabricate alkali metal vacuum reference cells with AR coating and low helium permeation. The resulting cells will be made at wafer scale and can support unit costs lower than manual cell fabrication.
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.
- Stable Quantum Vector Magnetometer
- Accurate and Reliable Quantum Vector Magnetometer
- Magnetic reference sensor for GPS-free navigation
- Atomic Triaxial Magnetometer
- Magnetic reference sensor for GPS-free navigation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Microfabricated vacuum-packaged Rb vapor cells with tight temperature control
- Vacuum packaged microfabricated rubidium vapor cells
- Integrated rubidium vapor cell package for optical atomic clocks
Research funding history
30 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2025). Reported award amounts total $14,011,670. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy