Nanosonic Inc., a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to design, fabricate, and demonstrate the performance of optical detectors using quantum material effects. The research, designated as a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I effort, aims to develop prototype detectors incorporating quantum effects like ballistic electron transport, resonant sub-optical wavelength antennas, and quantum dot detectors. Nanosonic will collaborate with researchers from Virginia Tech and a major U.S. electronics company to analyze and build the devices, demonstrating the quantum principles underlying their operation. This contract is a total small business set-aside.
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