SBIR Phase I: New Ceramic Sub-Microchannel Plates

SBIR 第一阶段：新型陶瓷亚微通道板

• 批准号: 0539824
• 负责人: Dmitri Routkevitch
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Synkera Technologies Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-01-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0539824&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; New; Ceramic; Sub

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes the development of advanced high-resolution ceramic micro-channel plates (MCPs). MCPs are used in many types of astrophysics photon detectors, as well as in scientific instrumentation, medical imaging and in low- and night vision devices. Requirements of many current and future astronomical spectroscopy and imaging instruments cannot be supported by conventional glass-fiber MCP technology that has reached its fundamental limits in spatial and temporal resolution, fixed pattern noise, high count rate capabilities, thermal performance, yield and reproducibility, stability and lifetime. Alternative technologies are needed to overcome these limitations. The company proposes an innovative approach to fabricate sub-microchannel plates (s-MCPs) from nanostructured ceramic with previously unachievable morphology, enabling channel diameter below 1 micrometer and open area ratio approaching 90%. The expected result of the proposed work is a manufacturing technology for production of commercially viable sub-micro-channel plate intensifiers with better performance, longer lifetime and lower cost. This could open up new opportunities for a quantum leap in the development of the next generation particle and photon detection systems for the infrared, UV, x-ray and gamma ray astrophysics applications.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目提出开发先进的高分辨率陶瓷微通道板（mcp）。mcp被用于许多类型的天体物理光子探测器，以及科学仪器、医学成像和微光和夜视设备。传统的玻璃纤维MCP技术在空间和时间分辨率、固定模式噪声、高计数率能力、热性能、产率和再现性、稳定性和寿命等方面已经达到了基本极限，无法满足当前和未来许多天文光谱和成像仪器的需求。需要替代技术来克服这些限制。该公司提出了一种创新的方法，利用纳米结构陶瓷制造亚微沟道板（s-MCPs），这种陶瓷具有以前无法实现的形态，使沟道直径低于1微米，开放面积比接近90%。本工作的预期结果是为生产性能更好、寿命更长、成本更低、具有商业可行性的亚微通道板增强剂提供了一种制造技术。这可能为下一代红外、紫外、x射线和伽马射线天体物理学应用的粒子和光子探测系统的发展开辟新的机会。