CAPESYM INC — Department of Defense STTR Phase II: DTRA20B-001
CAPESYM INC — STTR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $1,099,629
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase II
- Topic
- DTRA20B-001
- Solicitation
- 20.B
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2022-06-30 → 2024-07-19
Description
This program seeks to develop ultrafast, radiation hard, and rugged scintillators for nuclear battlefields based on high melting-point temperatures oxide crystal. Doping, co-doping, and alloying schemes will be explored to reach the target of < 5ns decay time, light yield >1000 ph/MeV, moderate energy resolution <15% energy resolution at 662 keV , and tolerance to high radiation doses as high as 100kGy for nuclear survivability. A commercially-viable growth process will be developed to achieve low production cost. This STTR program is a collaborative effort between the University of Houston (UH) and CapeSym. Radiation hardness measurements will be conducted at Ohio State University Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (OSU-NRL).