This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to White Light Power Inc. (WLPI), a self-certified small disadvantaged business. Under this $727,280.00 Firm Fixed Price contract, WLPI will demonstrate prototype vertical Gallium Nitride (GaN) Schottky diodes for high-power rectification at W-band frequencies. The goal is to leverage WLPI's experience in power rectifier diode fabrication to enable...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Virginia Diodes, Inc., a manufacturer of millimeter wave and terahertz devices. The $124,913 fixed-price contract is responsive to a NASA SBIR subtopic focused on developing frequency multipliers that can operate in the 200-400 GHz range with greater than 30% efficiency and input powers up to 1 watt. The contract will employ three key innovations: optimizing...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Apiq Semiconductor LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The $125,000.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the development of a scalable, wide bandgap monolithic power integrated circuit (MPIC) technology based on gallium nitride (GaN) materials. The goal is to create high-efficiency, high-density, and radiation-hardened power...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Icemos Technology Corp, a for-profit manufacturer, for the development of radiation-tolerant, high-voltage, high-power electronics using wide bandgap (WBG) drain engineered transistors. The contract has a firm fixed price of $124,999.00 and a period of performance through November 19, 2021. The award is part of NASA's SBIR program, which provides funding to small businesses to develop innovative technologies....
This is a $124,902 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CFD Research Corporation, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development and testing of gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) with high voltage and radiation tolerance capabilities for NASA's power management and distribution (PMAD) systems, including applications...
This federal contract award to Structured Materials Industries, Inc. is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project to develop a new generation of radiation-hardened, high-power, high-voltage gallium oxide (Ga2O3)-based Schottky diodes suitable for space applications. The contract is set aside for small businesses and has a potential value of $125,000. The goal is to leverage the wide bandgap properties of Ga2O3 to create power electronics that are more efficient, smaller,...
This is a $300,000.00 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Virginia Diodes, Inc., a small business manufacturer of millimeter wave and terahertz devices. The contract is for the development and delivery of "Powerful and Compact SSPA Modules for Active Remote Sensing" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. Virginia Diodes has a long history of providing...
This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, was issued to Virginia Diodes, Inc. on a Firm Fixed Price basis for $124,977.00. The goal of this Step I proposal is to extend the performance of Schottky diode based harmonic mixers by using advanced circuit designs and fabrication techniques to minimize conversion loss and reduce the complexity of the local oscillator source. Virginia Diodes, Inc. is a manufacturer of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Set Group LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to design, build, and demonstrate a gallium nitride (GaN)-based high power, high frequency, wide range LLC resonant converter. The converter will operate at 1 MHz with an input voltage of 80V to 300V and an output of 300V to 2kV, capable of handling up to 1 kW. The contract has...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Virginia Diodes, Inc. (doing business as Virginia Diodes Inc.), a manufacturer of millimeter wave and terahertz devices, components, and systems. The $124,992.00 Firm Fixed Price contract, awarded on August 19, 2019, is responsive to NASA's SBIR Subtopic S1.02 for "Technologies for Active Microwave Remote Sensing" and specifically seeks "1 Watt G-Band (167-175...