SBIR Phase II: Micromachined Planar Single Pixel Photomultiplier Tube (PMT)

SBIR 第二阶段：微机械平面单像素光电倍增管 (PMT)

• 批准号: 9901808
• 负责人: Charles Beetz
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: NANOSCIENCES CORP
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-15 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9901808&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Micromachined; Planar

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project focuses on producing a miniature photomultiplier for detection of light signals traveling on fiber-optic networks and for use as on-board high speed optical detection for chemical sensing in lab-on-a-chip and DNA sequencing systems. Integrated optics for digital and analog data transmission and analog sensors can benefit from the high-speed miniature photodectors (1 GHz). Solid state detectors are available with very high bandwidth or high gain, but not both simultaneously. A high (1,000) detector operated at low power with high speed and large dynamic range, and that could be integrated onto a silicon circuit would have value, especially as a fiber-optic receiver and sensor. We propose a micromachined vacuum photomultiplier employing dynode secondary electron emission gain, a Planar Micromachined PhotoMultiplier Tube (PMPMT). Such a device would make a superior chip-scale integrable high gain fiber-optic (FO) receiver, capable of substantially lowering the power performance requirements of gigabit/s laser diode FO transmitters, the cost-barrier to ultra-high speed WAN networks. Such a device would also enable truly field portable test equipment for chemical, biochemical and medical diagnostics. If this project is successful it could usher in a revolutionary new fiber optic sensor for telecommunciations networks. Additional commercial applications exist in biomedical and chemical analysis labs-on-a-chip where a high speed optical detector can revolutionize rapid analyses such as DNA screening or chemical or toxin identification.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II期项目着重于生产微型光电塑料，用于检测在光纤网络上传播的光信号，并用作实验室芯片和DNA测序系统中化学感测的机上高速光学检测。 用于数字和模拟数据传输和模拟传感器的集成光学器件可以受益于高速微型光电模配件（1 GHz）。固态检测器具有很高的带宽或高增益，但并非同时获得。 高速功率以高速和大动态范围运行的高（1,000）探测器，并且可以集成到硅电路上的值将具有值，尤其是作为光纤接收器和传感器。 我们提出了一种使用二级电子发射增益的微机械真空光电塑料，这是一种平面微机械光电压管（PMPMT）。 这样的设备将使较高的芯片尺度可集成的高增益光纤（FO）接收器，能够大大降低千兆位/S激光二极管FO发射器的功率性能要求，这是超高速速度网络的成本键。 这种设备还将为化学，生化和医学诊断提供真正的现场便携式测试设备。 如果该项目成功，它可以为电信网络带来革命性的新光纤传感器。 在芯片上的生物医学和化学分析实验室中存在其他商业应用，其中高速光学检测器可以彻底改变快速分析，例如DNA筛选，化学或毒素鉴定。