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Single-color MWIR LED arrays have made steady progress in demonstrating good performance, operability, efficiency, and reliability. On the other hand, dual-color MWIR LED arrays are highly desirable for testing dual color sensors. Compared to the optical combining approach, native dual-color LED arrays offer many benefits, including reduced system size and simpler optical system design. The propos ...

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions will demonstrate how a COTS FPGA can withstand natural and manmade radiation, and how our radiation circumvention and recovery approach enables high density electronic payloads needed for next generation guided missile and space applications. We will develop a prototype FPGA demonstration vehicle that utilizes an Intel Agilex F-series COTS FPGA and our operate-throu ...

Future solid propulsion systems will require higher propellant burn temperatures to achieve improvements in impulse and thrust. We propose to continue development of our novel seal technology that will enable significant increases in temperature at the seal location. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of our approach through analysis, prototyping, and proof‑of‑concept demonstrations. In Pha ...

Current dynamic seals in solid rocket motors are limited to relatively low-temperature environments, which limit the compactness and overall temperature capabilities of the motors. We propose to develop a novel seal technology that will enable significant increases in temperature at the seal location, reduce friction and actuation loads, and offer infinite shelf life. In Phase I we will prove the ...

The proposed solution is to develop an infrared light emitting diode (LED) scene projector and the associated system components that shall meet the DoD scene projection requirements and specifications. The unique feature of the proposed solution is the demonstration of a dual-band projector with record-breaking resolution and frame-rate of 2K x 2K x 1KHz for full-frame moving image projection. For ...

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions is proposing an approach to enable use of State of the Art (SOTA) Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) devices in naturally occurring or manmade radiation environments. Our approach marries a companion radiation sensing, circumvention, and recovery chipset to a COTS device. This solution detects and circumvents radiation without modifying or redesigning the COTS part. Th ...

OSEMI and UCSB, with support from Lockheed-Martin’s Santa Barbara Focalplane, propose to advance Type-2 Strained-Layer Superlattice (T2SLS) long wave infrared (LWIR) materials and detector technology. We specifically propose to investigate adding increased amounts of lead (Sb) in indium arsenide tin (InAsSb) - based SLS structures to increase LWIR absorption and detector quantum efficiency. We s ...

The overall objective of this program is to develop an open platform of strategic radiation hardened Intellectual Property (IP) on the commercially available 45nm silicon on insulator (SOI) foundry technology from Global Foundries to enable development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), system on a chips (SoCs), and other custom integrated circuits. Trusted Semiconductor Solution ...

The low growth temperature enabled by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is known to be useful in generating cubic crystalline nitride-based semiconductors. In 2011 Novikov applied the MBE growth technique to achieve free-standing cubic gallium nitride (GaN) templates up to 75 microns thick with a 50mm diameter using standard 1 micron per hour growth rates. In this Phase I effort, OSEMI proposes to appl ...

Today’s high-power photodiode is perhaps one of the high temperature electronics (HTEs) that requires the highest dissipated heat density. Herein, Phase Sensitive Innovations (PSI) propose to develop a uni- travelling carrier (UTC) photodiode package that has significantly higher saturation power than the current high-speed photodiodes based on hybrid integration of the photodiode structure on h ...