SBIR/STTR Research Award
COMPUTER CONTROLLED MICROINDENTER SYSTEM
Award amount
$236,712Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1996Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Advanced Technologies/Laboratories Intl
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Incorporation of cleavage microcracks on otherwise crack free material is a new approach used in the fabrication of some microelectonics devices. This proposal describes the development of a new computer controlled microindenter system for the farication of microcracks on a crystalline substrate. System capabilities will include the introduction of two simultaneous Vickers indentations at precise locations and close proximity, data acquistion of indentation load, penetration depth, and temperatures of the indenter head and the substrate, and the computer control of: 1) postion of the substrate relative to the indenter head, 2) temperature of substrate and indenter head, and 3) the indentation loading rate.
Technology keywords
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