SBIR/STTR Research Award
Highly Elastic Sensors for High Shock Environments
Award amount
$99,989Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Tanner Research, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-05-24
- Contract end date
- 2013-11-27
- UEI
- X7KGA99EEDX5
- Solicitation number
- 2012.3
- Topic code
- MDA12-034
Research abstract
One advanced material found to survive high G-forces while making accurate inertial measurements is thermo plastic formed (TPF) Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG). Unlike MEMS-based silicon components which have historically shattered when used in higher-stress gun-launched applications, Tanner Research and Yale University successfully demonstrated BMG use as an alternative materials technology that survives gun-launch type shocks. BMG survivability has been demonstrated in the MEMS S & A device as an inertial sensing structure. The fact BMG is potentially useful in inertial measurement units (IMU) has been previously established at Tanner through the proof-of-concept accelerometer hardware highlighted in this proposal. The proposal is aimed at characterizing performance metrics for the inertial sensing ranges achieved by the MEMS combs fabricated in various BMG alloys.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Sensor for Non-Destructive Propellant Mechanical Property Evaluation
- Title: 270V DC Add-on Upgrade for CMBRE
- Radiation Performance Improvements for EFIs
- Retrofittable Probe Latching Detection Concepts for Unmanned Aerial Refueling
- Novel Subminiature Assembly, MEMS Ultrasound, for implementation of SDPSS
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Correlation identification and evaluation of new technologies or methodologies to accurately measure inertial movement in a stressing flight environme
- Ultra-miniature Inertial Measurement Sensor
- Correlation identification and evaluation of new technologies or methodologies to accurately measure inertial movement in a stressing flight environme
Research funding history
185 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $49,118,132. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration