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Goddard
Space Flight Center
1993 Phase II
AIGaN UV
Solar-Blind Detector Array
Superior
Vacuum Technology Associates
Eden Prairie, MN
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INNOVATION
Protovoltaic detector array with high
quantum efficiency fabricated from aluminum gallium nitride (AIGaN)
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One Element of Aluminum
Gallium Nitride 1x10
Photovoltaic Detector Array
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Demonstrated AIGaN UV detector
which is blind to visible and IR wavelengths, with best published
UV/visible rejection ratios for nitride detector
- Detector capable of 90% quantum
efficiency response at 360 nm and shorter wavelength response better
than commercial Si UV enhanced diodes
- Developed nitride growth technology
using RF nitrogen plasma source
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COMMERCIALIZATION
- Over 45 RF nitrogen plasma sources
have been sold to multiple industrial users and universities at
$30 K each for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) nitride deposition
- Five MBE systems designed fro
AIGaN growth sold
- Delivering AIGaN device epitaxy
wafers to numerous research groups
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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS
- High temperatures flame sensor
for combustion monitoring
- UV focal plane array for astronomical
observations
- Missile detection and guidance
- UV spectroscopy
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