This is a firm fixed-price $149,995.00 contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to United Semiconductors, LLC, a woman-owned small business, for the FY24 SBIR Phase I effort on "Physical Vapor Deposition Reactor Design and Validation for In-Space Manufacturing of Aluminum Nitride Single Crystals." The contract is set aside for small businesses and is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which supports the development of innovative technologies with potential aerospace applications. United Semiconductors, a manufacturer of advanced semiconductor materials, will work on designing and validating a physical vapor deposition reactor for producing high-quality aluminum nitride single crystals in a microgravity environment. This aligns with NASA's interest in in-space manufacturing capabilities that could enable novel materials and devices for autonomous systems, networked sensing, and other emerging aerospace technologies.
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