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A successful large area ELO GaN process technology will lead to a low cost 'virtual substrate' for LED and high performance III-N based devices. We propose to investigate the application of this technique in large area III-Nitride MOCVD reactors, up to 42x2 sapphire and silicon substrates; the latter as a low cost alternative to sapphire for high volume/low cost devices. EMC ...

ZnO material is a wide bandgap semiconductor and a piezoelectric material as well. ZnO is compatible with current Si process technology. Large area, high quality ZnO films can be deposited by MOCVD technique on various substrates, such as sapphire and Si at low growth temperature. We propose to develop a new smart sensor technology by integration of multifunctional ZnO sensors with Si IC for imagi ...

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Successful development of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tunable devices such as multipole band pass filters and demonstration of their high-Q performance will lead to significant enhancements in several military and commercial communications systems The primary objective of the present SBIR program is to develop magnetically tunable HTS filter technology, integrating the superconducting p ...

MicSOI (silicon-on-insulator) material is a most promising substrate for military and commercial applications. The SOI process based on hydrogen-implantation, wafer splitting, and wafer bonding is the newest and the cheapest approach to SOI fabrication. We propose to develop hydrogen-implanted SOI wafer process for production with a focus on improving the quality of SOI thus improving radiation ha ...

Development of a high performance electronically tunable optical filter for the mid-infrared abling technology for spectral imaging, chemical vapor sensing and numerous other remote sensing applications. Tunable Fabry-Perot (F-P) filters have desirable features of high throughput (much needed in the mid-IR region where detectors are of low sensitivity ...

Ballistic missile defense applications of the future will require ever more powerful electronic devices, capable of operation at high frequencies and power and able to withstand high temperatures. Gallium nitride is one of the most promising materials for such applications. Although a number of devices such as light emitting diodes and junction field effect transistors have been fabricated using G ...

Organic based light emitting diodes have made significant advances in the past few years. An important factor in device performance is the transparent conducting contact layer. Presently, indium tin oxide (ITO) is used because it is an accepted standard and has a great deal of invested development. However, for several reasons, including work function, physical stability, and band alignment to org ...

A multi-layer diamond thin film field-emission cathode is proposed for high power applications such as UV lasers, high power switches, vacuum electronic devices and high--energy accelerators. The proposed optimization of various layers enables us to take advantage of high thermal conductivity of diamond to increase the maximum current obtained from each emission site thereby increasing the total c ...

The goal of this SBIR Phase I project is to conduct research and prove the feasibility ofmeasuring soil properties using cutting-edge detectors customized optical accessories anddata processing algorithms.Our overall project goal is to bring to market a portable soilsensor which can analyze soil samples in near real-time in Phase II and beyond.Growers rely on soil analysis to help them assess the ...