Tanner Research, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: DMEA231-002
Tanner Research, Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $196,987
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Microelectronics Activity
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- DMEA231-002
- Solicitation
- 23.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2023-08-23 → 2024-02-23
Description
One advanced material found to survive high G-forces and also is defect and grain-size free is thermos-plastic formed (TPF) Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMG). Unlike MEMS-based silicon components which often do not survive high-G, high shock environments, Tanner Research and Yale University have successfully demonstrated thermos-plastic formed (TPF) Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG) use as an alternative materials technology that survives extreme shocks. BMG survivability has been demonstrated in the MEMS S&A device as an inertial sensing structure. The fact BMG is potentially useful as a resonator has been previously established at Tanner through the proof-of-concept accelerometer resonant structures. We propose to develop and validate the performance metrics for MEMS-style microresonators as clock sources in various BMG alloys.