Rapid Prototyping: Virtual Rapid Prototyping System for Piezoelectric Micro Systems

9420378 KIM该奖项是为了开发一种用于压电微系统(PMS)的虚拟快速原型系统。这是微型机电系统(MEMS)的一个领域，在这个领域中，执行器或传感器设备被构建成人类头发的规模。经前综合征的运动是由电信号驱动或产生的。一些例子是麦克风、泵或马达。将开发的快速成型系统利用计算机模拟来设计PMS装置，设计制造它们的特殊工艺，并对虚拟样机进行性能测试。作为该计划的一部分，这个跨学科团队将使用该系统建造这些设备，并将它们的虚拟系统预测与实验数据进行比较。这种虚拟快速原型系统的技术影响将通过提供工程工具来设计PMS设备和制造它们的过程，从而降低成本和交付时间。这意味着可以为商业和工业应用设计具有竞争力的基于PMS的新产品。该奖项还将建设研究和人力资源基础设施，使其在这一技术领域具有竞争力。

9420378 Kim This award is to develop a virtual rapid prototyping system for piezoelectric micro systems (PMS). This is an area of Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS), where actuator or sensor devices are built to the scale of a human hair. PMS's move and either are driven by or produce electrical signals. Some examples are microphones, pumps, or motors. The rapid prototyping system that will be developed used computer simulation to design the PMS devices, design the special processes to make them, and do performance tests on the virtual prototype. As part of the program this interdisciplinary team will build these devices using this system and compare their virtual system predictions with experimental data. The technological impact of this virtual rapid prototyping system will be reduced cost and lead time by providing the engineering tools to design both the PMS devices and the processes to make them. This means new competitive PMS-based products can be designed for commercial and industrial applications. This award will also build the research and human resource infrastructure to be competitive in this area of technology.