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 National
Science Foundation awards Phase I development contract to
Zyberwear
NSF has awarded a $150,000 Phase I SBIR contract to Zyberwear
for development of a novel biosensor for extremely faint traces
of
bio-molecules, cells, microbes, and their interactions. When
development is completed, this new class of Surface Plasmon
Resonance (SPR) biosensor will have immediate impact in life
science, biosensors, electroanalysis, drug discovery, food/water
quality and safety, environmental science, gas-and liquid-phase
chemical sensors, forensics, defense and security.
The Phase I
feasibility study is intended to verify the projected sensing
performance of our innovation via calculation and empirical
measurement, to validate the design and construction of a
fieldable preproduction prototype in Phase II
National Science Foundation awards Phase II development contract to Zyberwear.
Based on Zyberwear's successful completion of Phase I investigation, NSF has awarded a $464,000 Phase II SBIR contract for development of focal plane arrays for a camera which images terahertz-wavelength images. Perhaps more importantly it provides unprecedented sensitivity and frame rate for a thermal IR camera.
. Sees through clothing, envelopes, packages
. No unsafe ionizing radiation
. Non-pornographic
. UV-VIS-IR-THz bolometric sensing range
. Unprecedented sensitivity, capable of high frame rate
. Uncooled array
. Arrays prototyped for thermal IR
Phase II goals: build preproduction 64X64 focal plane array and camera for
immediate release to marketing and production; design 320X240 focal plane
array chip.
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