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Thermopile Area Array Readout

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNX13CP17P
Agency Tracking Number: 125716
Amount: $124,964.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: S1.03
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2012
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-05-23
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2013-11-23
Small Business Information
CO
Colorado Springs, CO 80924-7002
United States
DUNS: 621633296
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Stephen Gaalema
 Principal Investigator
 (719) 593-9501
 sgaalema@bfe.com
Business Contact
 Stephen Gaalema
Title: Business Official
Phone: (719) 593-9501
Email: sgaalema@bfe.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

NASA/JPL thermopile detector linear arrays, wire bonded to Black Forest Engineering (BFE) CMOS readout integrated circuits (ROICs), have been utilized in NASA missions such as the Mars Climate Sounder and the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment. Linear array thermopile detectors are fabricated by bulk micro-machining. Surface micro-machined thermopiles are desirable for area array thermopiles because the architecture provides both high detector fill factor and circuit fill factor in the pixel. The Phase I effort designs an area array ROIC compatible with surface micro-machined thermopile detectors to meet requirements of future NASA thermal instruments requiring D-Star>4 x 109 Jones. Radiation hard-by-design will be utilized with 180 nm CMOS for low 1/f noise readout, operating temp 77-300 K, radiation hardness and noise immunity with on-ROIC ADC. Various pixel pitches and binning methods will be investigated to cover a desired wavelength detection range of 20?m?100?m. The Phase I ROIC array design, in a 128x128 or larger format, will be fabricated on Phase II.

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