Training Grant 80NSSC20K1693

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI), a for-profit manufacturer of advanced materials, optics, electronics, and photonics. Under this $750,000 Firm Fixed Price contract, SMI and its partners are developing ultraviolet (UV) photo detection devices with high sensitivity, low noise, and fast response time. The technical approach is based on nanowires of the wide band gap semiconductor ZnMgO, which will...

This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc., a small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the design and development of high-performance, high-gain Gallium Nitride/Aluminum Gallium Nitride ultraviolet avalanche photodiode (UV APD) arrays to support future NASA missions, including Explorers, Discovery, Cosmic Origins, Vision Missions, Earth...

This is a $122,631.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Banpil Photonics, Inc., a minority-owned small business. The contract is for the development of a solar blind ultraviolet avalanche photodiode (UV APD) based on III-N material system for use in ultraviolet spectroscopy and imaging applications. The contract was set aside for total small businesses and is part of the Small Business Innovation Research...

Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, was awarded a $749,999.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop large-area, high gain aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) ultraviolet avalanche photodiode (UV-APD) arrays. These devices will support future NASA Earth science missions requiring high-resolution Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) measurements. The contract aims to model,...

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 federal grant award to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) aims to scale up their existing 50mm cross-strip (XS) photon counting ultraviolet (UV) detector technology to a larger 100x100mm format. The grant, valued at $973,962.28, is funded by NASA and is part of their "Development of Large Area (100x100 mm) Photon Counting UV Detectors" program. The goal is to raise the technology readiness level (TRL) of the XS detector from 4 to 6, which includes testing the...

This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SK Infrared LLC, a small minority-owned business based in Albuquerque. The $124,999 firm-fixed-price contract is for a feasibility study to develop a prototype of a single-pixel, field-programmable, short-wave infrared (SWIR) photodetector using antimonide-based type II superlattice materials. The goal is to produce a detector that can operate at...

Coolcad Electronics, LLC was awarded a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and fabricate a silicon carbide (SiC) ultraviolet (UV) detector array with a 10 micrometer pixel pitch. The objective is to develop the fabrication processes and capabilities to integrate SiC photodiodes and low-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) devices at submicron feature sizes,...

New Integration Photonics has been awarded a $148,913 firm fixed price purchase order as the prime contractor for SBIR Phase I research titled "ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETER WITH REUSABLE DELAY LINES FOR EXOPLANET DETECTION." The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center is the funding agency for this contract, which has a total small business set aside designation. The research will be conducted by New Integration...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD), a small business, to design and develop large-area solid-state photomultipliers (SSPMs) based on wide band-gap materials for the detection of ultraviolet light generated by cosmic rays. The contract, valued at $124,892, is focused on improving the detection efficiency, response time, and performance of the SSPM...