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Low Defect Density Mercury Cadmium Telluride on Silicon by Bulk Layer Transfer
SBC: SRICO INC Topic: MDA11T002Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) has been described as one of the most technologically significant semiconductor materials and is the most widely used material for long wave infrared (LWIR) imaging. The current challenge is to produce MCT over large focal plane array size at low cost and high reliability without compromising sensitivity or noise performance. MCT on silicon substrates is highly attr ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Defect Reduction at the Silicon (112) Wafer Surface by Amorphization and Recrystallization
SBC: AMETHYST RESEARCH INC Topic: MDA11T002Silicon wafers oriented on (112) are the preferred substrates for deposition of mercury cadmium telluride layers by molecular beam epitaxy. Surface defects introduced during polishing of the wafers degrade the quality of the epitaxy and the performance of infrared detectors fabricated within these materials. We propose a process for reducing the density of the defects that are inherent in the si ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
The Use of Hydrogen for Defect Reduction in Large Format Infrared Detector Materials
SBC: AMETHYST RESEARCH INC Topic: MDA11T002Active defects negatively impact the performance of IRFPAs by increasing noise at various levels up to, and including, catastrophic degradation. Evidence indicates that"killer defects"are related to the interaction of open core screw dislocations with impurities that remain after substrate preparation, prior to HgCdTe growth. This impurity diffusion creates a conducting channel that shorts the j ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High Operability HgCdTe Focal Plane Arrays on Si by Mitigation of Defects
SBC: AMETHYST RESEARCH INC Topic: MDA11T002For HgCdTe infrared focal plane arrays fabricated on Si substrates, a model has recently been proposed to account for the disparity between the density of failed pixels and the density of dislocations that are present in the HgCdTe junction region. The model distinguishes between active and inactive dislocations and offers a hypothesis that dislocations are active only when they intersect particul ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Fast Self-Adaptive Algorithms for Generating Hardbody Thermal Histories
SBC: STELLAR SCIENCE LTD. CO. Topic: MDA10T003To reduce the cost of new hardware development, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is developing fast new computational tools that enable in-the-loop hardware testing. The MDA and contractors have developed high-fidelity scene modeling tools such as the Fast Line-of-sight Imagery for Target and Exhaust-plume Signatures (FLITES) to test optical signature trackers. Currently, these high-speed tools ar ...
STTR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Materials and Life Cycle Sustainability for Structural Missile Applications
SBC: Performance Polymer Solutions Inc. Topic: MDA10020This Phase I Small Business Innovative Research Program will develop and demonstrate the technology to produce large-scale, high temperature, lightweight composite missile structures for transition to a fielded weapons system where weight minimization and resistance to high temperature exposure is critical. Performance Polymer Solutions Inc."s composite system has the ability to survive in extrem ...
SBIR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Sensor Resource Management
SBC: EDAPTIVE COMPUTING INC Topic: MDA10002Today"s Ballistic Missile Defense networks consist of many different types of sensors and platforms, and given the expanded focus of MDA on theater and regional missile defense where multiple"raids"can be launched from different sites toward numerous targets, it is crucial that they can be dynamically tasked and deployed effectively in real-time to realize their full potential in achieving overall ...
SBIR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Advanced Reentry Vehicle and Wake Models
SBC: GOHYPERSONIC INCORPORATED Topic: MDA10023At hypersonic flow conditions, the flow field around reentry vehicles is ionized, resulting in electro-optical emissions, detectable radar cross-sections, and attenuation of signals transmitted through the plasma. Ablative heat shields may further increase the levels of electrons in the plasma around the hardbody and in the wake. We propose to extend an existing high-fidelity computational fluid d ...
SBIR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Photonic Multi-Beam Receive-Only Arrays
SBC: DGNSS Solutions, LLC Topic: MDA10026We propose to define a dynamically reconfigurable photonics-based system to efficiently collect, down-convert, distribute, and selectively combine the return signals from multiple array elements to a set of digital processors. Electronic signals from the array elements will modulate optical carrier signals. With an appropriate choice of optical carrier signal and photonic architecture, the signals ...
SBIR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Space Photonics Technology
SBC: MV INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Topic: MDA10030This proposal offers an innovative laser communication system architecture allowing free space optical communications at high data rates in a way that is compact, light-weight, robust, vibration-tolerant, inexpensive, and eye-safe to be suitable for long range space-based applications. The proposed Scale Phase-locked Adaptive Communication Element (SPACE) laser communications system replaces conv ...
SBIR Phase I 2011 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency