NASA Awards Epir Contract
SARASOTA, Fla., April 14, 2008 -- A contract awarded to Epir Technologies Inc. will help NASA optmize x-ray absorbers for silicon-based calorimeter spectrometers.
The resulting x-ray sensors will have significantly higher spectral-resolution, "which will be used to provide insight into our hot and dynamic universe," NASA said in a statement issued by Sunovia.
Epir is a Bollingbrook, Ill., maker of optoelectronic materials and sensors -- such as infrared (IR) detectors, biosensors and solar cells -- for defense and other...