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Amplification Technologies, Inc.
Company Description
Amplification Technologies seeks to transform the field of low-level signal detection. The company's patented semiconductor technology has the potential to offer unparalleled benefits to industries such as medical diagnostics, remote sensing, aerospace, scientific instrumentation and homeland security. The technology has been successfully used to develop extremely sensitive detectors of low levels of light. Detectors will be used in many existing applications as well as open up new markets.
Dubbed by many as the best innovation in InGaAs APD technology in the last 20 years is being introduced to the market by Amplification Technologies Inc. By introducing a self quenching layer in APD structures, devices can be operated almost continuously above breakdown in the geiger mode. There is no external quenching circuit as in conventional geiger mode APDs. Another key innovation is the subdivision of the active area into hundreds of subpixels, each of which operated independently at a gain of a million before being tied together at the anode. This eliminates the noise associated with the amplification process, noise factor becomes close to 1 (1.03 in InGaAs). Resulting devices have gain of 10E+5, noise equivalent power of 7-8 fW/sqr rt Hz, pulse width ~0.5 nsec. By varying the size and pitch of the subpixel design, higher packing densities can be achieved resulting in high fill factors and higher dynamic range. These GM-APDs are ideal replacements for low light level technologies l
Contact Information
 50 Eisenhower Drive
Paramus,NJ
United States
Press Releases
| New SBIR grants awarded to Amplification Technologies Inc.
Amplification Technologies Inc. (ATI) (www.ampti.net) has been competitively selected by NASA for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project. This project has a value of approximately $600,000 for this phase and is titled "High Performance Negative Feedback Near Infrared Single Photon Counting Detectors & Arrays. The project is focused on developing innovative photodetector solutions to free space optical communications. The performance characteristics of the devices and arrays to be developed should be highly desirable in many other applications including, lidar, laser ranging and tracking 3D imaging, spectroscopy and scientific instrumentation and long term - night vision."
In addition,Amplification Technologies Inc. has been selected by the US Army for a new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant. The grant proposal, entitled "Novel Low Light Level Solid State Imaging Arrays," is to study the feasibility of utilizing ATI's breakthrough technology, as a replacement for image intensifier (II) tubes, currently the mainstay of the very large night vision market. The grant calls for approximately $70,000 in research and development funds for the Phase I study. If the results are promising, the Company could receive up to an additional $730,000 in transitional and Phase II funding. |
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