SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-authority FSMA/piezoelectric hybrid actuators
Award amount
$99,945Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- FERRO SOLUTIONS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-08-01
- Contract end date
- 2006-05-31
- UEI
- X1JKBCGJDQ87
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N05-T023
Research abstract
In this STTR program, we propose to design and build an optimized hybrid actuator that combines the large output strain of FSMAs with the greater bandwidth and force of piezoelectric ceramics. A further benefit of combining these two complementary active materials (one is essentially an inductor, the other a capacitor) is that their net performance is greater than the sum of that of their individual components. The hybrid actuator will show significant reductions of size and power requirements and an increase in the overall bandwidth of the actuator¡_s performance
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Closed-Loop Wireless Optical Neuromodulation for Motion Disorders
- SBIR Phase I: Novel Emergency Communication System for Mines
- SBIR Phase I: Magneto-electric-MEMs-enabled wireless power for medical implants
- Novel management of transducer heat and nonlinearity
- Enhanced Magnetic Communications
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
19 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2013). Reported award amounts total $7,656,804. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation