Business Plan

Addressed market and clients

The first product will be designed for the Science and Astronomy needs. The same ROIC can be used for these 2 applications. It is based on an already proven SFD design (source follower per detector).

For Earth observation on the other end the photon flux is higher. This requires the use of a ROIC with a Capacitor Trans-Impedance Amplifier (CTIA) input stage.

With these 2 types of ROICs the science, astronomy, Earth observation and others can be addressed. The potential customers are :

• The national and international space agencies: ESA, CNES, others worldwide…

• International agencies and International Public-Private partnerships building telescopes: future ELT projects, new instruments on existing Telescopes

• Science agencies

• Departments of Defense (DoD)

SOFRADIR’s market analysis for science and astronomy applications is as follows:

• Several hundred of large IR detectors by the 2030’s years for ground astronomy
• Several tens of of large IR detectors by 2030’s years for space science and astronomy