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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

high-aspect ratio, microaccelerometer, extreme environments, antenna structure

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

Over the course of the past year, I have had the invaluable opportunity to pursue a research project under the guidance of Dr. David Allred. I am still working on completing the project, but I have made significant progress and gained experience in designing microscale devices. The original goal of my research project was to design and build a microscale acceleration sensor, or accelerometer, capable of operating in extreme environments, which is to say in high temperatures and corrosive atmospheres. This project is one piece of a larger goal, which is to make wireless sensors for extreme environments. Thus far, I have been able to complete the design of several comb capacitor structures, which are essentially fixed accelerometers. In principle, adding a simple spring structure is all that is required to make them functioning accelerometers.

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