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Wide-Temperature High Frequency Capacitors for Power Conditioning

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2011 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
F2-5683 		Solicitation Year:
2009 		Solicitation Topic Code:
OSD09-EP4 		Solicitation Number:
2009.2
Small Business Information
Active Signal Technologies, Inc.
Hammonds South, Unit Q 611 North Hammonds Ferry Road Linthicum Heights, MD -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2011
Title: Wide-Temperature High Frequency Capacitors for Power Conditioning
Agency: DOD
Contract: FA8650-11-C-2145
Award Amount: $749,619.00
 

Abstract:

Phase II of the present program will produce capacitors and modules that meet the Air Force need for ultra-stable electrical properties (loss<0.1%, permittivity ~2,000<+/- 5% from -55 300 degrees C) with high insulation resistance (>>1-OhmF at 250 degrees C), and graceful performance degradation. Initial optimization work by the team of Active Signal Technologies, Alfred University, Novacap and Lockheed Martin will enable a down-selection between two dielectric formulations and two alternative processing routes based on full characterization and testing of MLCs and 6 - 10-uF modules prepared from the candidate systems scaled up and fabricated in a manufacturing plant. One material system uses niobium substitution of the baseline NBT dielectric while the other integrates the outstanding properties of a high-temperature-stable (NBT-ST) and a low-temperature-stable (PMN-ST) dielectric material. Module development will proceed from a compact low inductance prototype developed in Phase I through iterations of fuse development at the 6 and 10-uF scale to demonstrate individual drop-out of failing capacitors under extreme testing conditions without energetic or propagating damage to the remainder of the module. The down-selected dielectric system will be further refined and used to prepare a large batch of ~1-uF capacitors for manufacture of the final deliverable 20-uF fused module.

Principal Investigator:

Keith Bridger
Technical Director
(202) 547-0293
fsbridger@comcast.net

Business Contact:

Arthur Cooke
President
(410) 636-9350
arthur@activesignaltech.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Active Signal Technologies, Inc.
Hammonds South, Unit Q 611 North Hammonds Ferry Road Linthicum Heights, MD -

EIN/Tax ID: 521960088
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No