Alphacore has received SBIR Phase II funding from the DOE to continue developing two critical rad hard products:
First, a radiation-tolerant, triggerable, high speed imaging chip, and a complete camera system, for investigating rapidly occurring phenomena in radiation environments. The primary application is electron beam monitoring in particle accelerator facilities, but the camera’s inherent high sensitivity also benefits healthcare, industrial thermal imaging for machine vision, and defense markets.
Second, a user-friendly rad hard Readout IC which offers a high-performance multi-channel readout needed for nuclear physics and high energy physics detectors. Each channel has a precision analog front end, with low-noise preamp & shaping amplifier to deliver critical performance for emerging low power photon counting detectors, sensor applications, and high performance imaging systems. This low-cost rad hard ROIC solution is also ideal for emerging LIDAR and 3-D imaging applications, plus defense and aerospace systems.
