SBIR/STTR Research Award
Quantum Dot LED Array for IR Scene Projection
Award amount
$749,999Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- NANOHMICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-08-22
- Contract end date
- 2020-08-22
- UEI
- K39ENMXNLA73
- Solicitation number
- 18.A
- Topic code
- AF18A-T017
Research abstract
Recent breakthroughs in the material quality and fabrication methods of III-V InAs/GaSb superlattice (SL) structures with a Type II band alignment has enabled high-performance MWIR detectors and LEDs. Nanohmic Inc. in collaboration with UT Austin proposes to develop Type II InGaSb/InAs quantum dot infrared light emitting diodes (QD-IRLED) for high-power infrared scene projection. This particular approach offers a potential material system for wavelength flexible, high-efficiency, surface-emitting mid-infrared sources with significantly reduced complexity, cost, and constraints on the growth layer sequence in comparison to Type II super lattice structures. The size and composition of quantum dots will be varied to produce devices with emission in the MWIR spectrum. LEDs will be fabricated with anti-reflective surface structures to enhance light extraction and external quantum efficiency.
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.
- In-situ Multispectral Array Pixelation for Quantum Dot Scene Projectors
- Meta-optic Spectropolarimeter For Heliophysics Imaging
- High Efficiency, Modular T-form Space Refrigeration
- Catalytic Aptazymes for Robust OP Nerve Agent Protection
- Inversely-designed dispersion-engineered electrically small antennas
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Next Generation Infrared Scene Projector for Testing MWIR Systems
- Quantum Dot LED Array for IR Scene Projection
Research funding history
306 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $109,302,435. 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, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture