Boston Micromachines Wins Grant
Boston Micromachines Corp. of
Cambridge, Mass., has received a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research Program
contract from NASA to support space-based imaging research. The Phase I project
is for the development of a high-resolution, fault-tolerant microelectromechanical
deformable mirror technology that will fill a gap in NASA’s road map for future
coronagraphic observatories. The company plans to implement two complementary modifications
to the manufacturing process: It will develop a drive electronics approach to limit
actuator electrical current density generated to prevent permanent failure when
a short-time-frame, single-fault failure occurs, and it will modify the actuator
design to mitigate failure resulting from adhesion between contacting surfaces of
the actuator flexure and fixed base. The company provides mirror products for commercial
adaptive optics systems.
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