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MALIBU, Calif. June 14, 2010–HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it was awarded a contract from DRS Technologies, Cypress, CA, to develop broadband high-operating-temperature medium-wavelength infrared detectors utilizing "photon trapping" architectures. The 18-month effort is part of the Photon-Trap Structures for Quantum Advanced Detectors, or PT-SQUAD program, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The program will leverage HRL's vast experience, expertise and infrastructure for processing antimony-based materials. "The
device architecture we are pursuing on the program will significantly improve detector performance by reducing absorber volume
while enhancing its broadband photon-trapping characteristics,
said Dr. Rajesh Rajavel, manager of the Detector Technologies
Department at HRL and program lead. "The PT-SQUAD architecture provides significant advantages over conventional detectors,
and enables operation at elevated temperatures."
HRL will collaborate with DRS Technologies, the University of California Los Angeles, the University of California Davis and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the PT-SQUAD program.
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HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California (www.hrl.com) is a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. HRL provides custom research and development and performs additional R&D contract services for its LLC member companies, the U.S. government, and other commercial companies.