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Barium Titanate Formation for Electronic/Photonic Applications

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: F33615-01-M-2149
Agency Tracking Number: 01-0359
Amount: $64,966.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2001
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
700 Research Center Blvd., M/S-34
Fayetteville, AR 72701
United States
DUNS: 045886251
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 David Nelms
 Chief Technology Officer
 (501) 575-5614
 david.nelms@integralwave.com
Business Contact
 David Nelms
Title: Chief Technology Officer
Phone: (501) 575-5614
Email: david.nelms@integralwave.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Integral Wave Technologies (formerly known as Arkansas Microelectronic Development Corporation) proposes to develop a process for growing ferroelectric, polycrystalline barium titinate (BaTiO3) thin-films, by anodic oxidation of co-sputteredbarium-titanium films (BaTi). Though films of this nature find applications in several electrical devices, Integral Wave will utilize this novel technology, if successful, for integral thin-film capacitors and optical waveguides. By utilizing this novelmethod of ferroelectric formation, Integral Wave will be able to obtain thin, uniform ferroelectric films that exhibit dielectric constants from approximately 150 to 1500. This will allow the fabrication of integral thin-film capacitors, which exhibittremendous volume and space saving benefits over traditional discrete capacitors, with very large capacitance densities, from 1¿F/cm2 up to 13¿F/cm2. These values are over 2000 times greater than the value exhibited by the leading commercially availableintegral dielectric. The low loss characteristic of these films will also allow Integral Wave to explore the potential application of this material in optical devices. Crystalline ferroelectrics have also found numerous applications as additional passiveand active optical components, such as couplers, taps, attenuators, modulators, switches and wavelength converters.The main applications are thin-film decoupling capacitors that can either be surface mounted or embedded between layers of a printed circuitboard, or substrate, and optical waveguides. Additional passive and active optical components, such as couplers, taps, attenuators, modulators, switches and wavelength converters, also exist.

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