This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Gigajot Technology, Inc. for the development of a CMOS photon-counting image sensor with high spatial resolution and room temperature operation for high-performance visible-blind UV/EUV photon number resolving. The contract has a potential value of $962,443.00 and is a Firm Fixed Price definitive contract. The place of performance...
This is a $129,995 fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of specialized optics and electronics based in Hillsboro, Oregon. The contract is for the development of a compact, high-resolution, time-resolved intensified image sensor called the Hybrid Intensified Solid-State Pixelated Anode Detector (ISPAD). This sensor is intended to address the challenges of in-situ planetary instrument development, which...
This federal contract award to Coolcad Electronics, Inc. is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the design and fabrication of a large-area silicon-carbide (SiC) based active pixel sensor. This sensor will comprise a very large-area SiC ultraviolet (UV) photodiode with a monolithically-integrated readout circuit. The objective is to develop SiC photodiodes larger...
This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Coolcad Electronics, Inc., a small for-profit company specializing in advanced semiconductor technologies like silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The contract aims to develop and fabricate an integrated sensor device capable of detecting a wide range of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, from extreme UV (1-50 nm) through vacuum UV (50-175 nm)...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Freedom Photonics LLC, a manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The objective is to develop a 1550-nanometer sensitive photon-counting detector array with integrated time-tagging electronics, suitable for free-space optical communications in NASA missions such as the Lunar Laser Communication...
This is a $124,973 firm fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Biospherical Instruments, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced optical instrumentation for environmental monitoring. The contract is part of NASA's "14-DECADES CALIBRATION IN AIRBORNE DETECTORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (14DECADES)" program and aims to develop a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) multiwaveband...
Qmagiq LLC, a small business, was awarded a $749,882 firm-fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop 2048x2048 strained-layer superlattice (SLS) focal plane arrays (FPAs) for high-spatial resolution earth observing missions. The objective is to increase the pixel resolution of thermal infrared sensors from the current 640x512 to 2048x2048 while improving quantum efficiency and operating...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Senseeker Engineering of Goleta, California. The firm-fixed-price purchase order, with a potential value of $149,974, is for the development of a high dynamic range digital pixel readout integrated circuit to support NASA programs. Under this contract, Senseeker Engineering will deliver the requested integrated circuit prototype...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Quantum Opus LLC, a manufacturer of high-efficiency, fast, nanowire photon counters. The $835,394 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an ultra-compact, field-deployable, quantum-compatible receiver for free-space optical communication. Quantum Opus has previously provided specialized detectors, components, and upgrades to NASA through...
This is a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced electronics and optics. The contract is for the development of a dual-functionality, large-format, silicon single-photon avalanche photodiode (SPAD) lidar imager to support the Europa Clipper mission. This highly sensitive SPAD imager will provide terrain-relative...