SBIR/STTR Research Award
MWIR APD Receivers
Award amount
$749,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- VOXTEL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-04-05
- Contract end date
- 2020-04-05
- UEI
- N2KECNUUMBF4
- Solicitation number
- 17.2
- Topic code
- AF172-011
Research abstract
The objective of the program is to develop mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) avalanche photodiode (APD) arrays for active and passive military sensing in the 3.0 – 4.6-μm waveband. With manufacturing development to improve material quality, APDs grown from a III-V material system, supported by commercial-scale growth and fabrication infrastructure, can meet the need for low-flux MWIR photon detectors with lower unit cost than the incumbent HgCdTe-based technology. The proposed Phase II program builds on our Phase I APD wafer growth experiments to improve wafer morphology, refine the APD layer design, fabricate arrays, and characterize the resulting detectors. The detector arrays manufactured in Phase II will be hybridized to an existing active imaging readout integrated circuit (ROIC) for demonstration, in existing camera electronics, to technology transfer partners.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
235 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2021). Reported award amounts total $86,180,717. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency