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Army awards a Phase II development contract to Zyberwear
ON the basis of its successful completion of its Phase I study,
Zyberwear has been awarded a $730,000 Phase II SBIR contract by
the US Army RDECOM, for development of a “Terahertz Intracavity
Spectrometer”. This instrument when completed will be able to
detect parts per billion to parts per trillion of vapors from
explosives and contraband. This
for
ultra-trace molecular vapor recognition will have immediate
application in military and commercial screening for threat
compounds and contraband having very low vapor pressures. Such
compounds include explosives, chemical gases, biological
aerosols, drugs, and banned or invasive plants or animals.
Also, biomedical breath analysis and non-invasive
law-enforcement searches are envisioned.
The
commercial form of is tentatively named Hyperdog™. Hyperdog in
use is sketched below, for rapid and exhaustive search of such
sealed volumes as shipping containers. Of the 50,000 shipping
containers entering through our ports each work day, fewer than
5% are physically opened, with less than 0.5% strip-searched for
explosives, weapons, contraband or persons. Hyperdog can simply
take a long “sniff” of the air inside the sealed container to
detect and quantify the vapors from prohibited substances….
without unpacking or even opening the sealed shipping container.
 
USAF
awards Phase I development contract to Zyberwear
NSF has awarded a $100,000 Phase I STTR contract to Zyberwear
and its subcontractor, the University of Central Florida.
Titled “Plasmonic
Tunable Terahertz Detector”, this development program is to
develop the
first commercial THz photo-transistor as a compact, light
weight, tunable, THz detector for spectral sensing and
space-situational awareness applications. Our innovation will
enable a high sensitivity, high resolution imaging spectrometer
for “seeing” through barriers, identifying dynamic targets, and
tracking threats while providing continuous chemical analysis
of objects in the field of view
Our team is
already working with the Air Force Research Lab (Hanscom AFB)
on prototype devices; this favors the prospect of Phase III
integration of our technology into several relevant Air Force
programs.
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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