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Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. SBIR Phase I Award, August 2020

A SBIR Phase I contract was awarded to Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. in August, 2020 for $122,892.0 USD from the NASA.

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SBIR/STTR Award Recipient
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
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Government Agency
NASA
NASA
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Award Type
SBIR1
Contract Number (US Government)
80NSSC20C04421
Award Phase
Phase I1
Award Amount (USD)
122,8921
Date Awarded
August 31, 2020
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End Date
March 1, 2021
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Abstract

The next generation of wide-field survey instruments with improved angular and energy resolution for research into astrophysical transient X-ray phenomena is currently under development. A scalable detector plane architecture has been developed at Harvard using CZT detector arrays for use in high resolution coded-aperture telescopes.Despite decades of research, the yield of device grade CZT is still quite low. In addition, internal defects cause spatial distortions in images. To meet the needs of hard X-ray astronomy a lower cost, more uniform and more readily available alternative to CZT is desirable.Thallium bromide (TlBr) has higher density and atomic number than CZT and therefore higher stopping power at hard X-ray energies. TlBr has a low melting point (460 deg;C, compared to ~ 1100 deg;C for CZT) and cubic crystal structure and can be grown from the melt by low cost techniques. As a result, TlBr has the potential to be a more efficient, lower cost alternative to CZT in the detector plane architecture developed by Harvard for use in high resolution coded-aperture telescopes.

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