Tunneling Sensors

Overview

• Brief summary of the underlying principles
• Circuits used to operate the sensors
• Download a detailed paper about the physics of the sensor (Word 5.1, 250k)
• Download a detailed paper about the physics of the sensor (RTF)

• Browse through our photos

Basic Research

• Studying/Improving the low-frequency noise
• Modeling and Control Analysis

Infrared Sensors based on Tunneling

• Basic structure and physics of our IR Sensor
• Brief summary of efforts to use and test the sensor in space
• The Tunneling Horizon Detector: One application of our sensor in space

Accelerometers based on Tunneling

• Basic structure (for early version design) and physics of a tunneling accelerometer
• Micromachined tunneling accelerometer'98

Developing future applications for Tunneling Sensors

• New accelerometer/cantilever designs