SBIR/STTR Research Award
Rugged Ultrafast Radiation Hard Scintillators for Nuclear Battlefield
Award amount
$1,099,629Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Recipient company
- CAPESYM INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-06-30
- Contract end date
- 2024-07-19
- UEI
- CSZST8YFP7K1
- Solicitation number
- 20.B
- Topic code
- DTRA20B-001
Research abstract
This program seeks to develop ultrafast, radiation hard, and rugged scintillators for nuclear battlefields based on high melting-point temperatures oxide crystal. Doping, co-doping, and alloying schemes will be explored to reach the target of 1000 ph/MeV, moderate energy resolution <15% energy resolution at 662 keV , and tolerance to high radiation doses as high as 100kGy for nuclear survivability. A commercially-viable growth process will be developed to achieve low production cost. This STTR program is a collaborative effort between the University of Houston (UH) and CapeSym. Radiation hardness measurements will be conducted at Ohio State University Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (OSU-NRL).
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.
- High-Resolution Direct-Conversion X-ray Detectors for Low-Dose Imaging
- Crystal Growth and Characterization of Doped VUV Crystals
- Low-Cost High-Efficiency X-ray Imaging Panels for Field Radiography
- High Yield Growth and Fabrication of Spectroscopic Radiation Detection Semiconductors
- High Quantum Efficiency Scintillators for Dual Readout Calorimetry
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Fast and Radiation Hard Scintillators for High Dose Detection
- Rugged Ultrafast Radiation Hard Scintillators for Nuclear Battlefield
- Fast and Radiation Hard Scintillators for High Dose Detection
Research funding history
85 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2025). Reported award amounts total $46,105,917. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration