PyroMEMS as Future Technological Building Blocks for Advanced Microenergetic Systems.

ABSTRACT: For the past two decades, many research groups have investigated new methods for reducing the size and cost of safe and arm-fire systems, while also improving their safety and reliability, through batch processing. Simultaneously, micro- and nanotechnology advancements regarding nanothermite materials have enabled the production of a key technological building block: pyrotechnical microsystems (pyroMEMS). This building block simply consists of microscale electric initiators with a thin thermite layer as the ignition charge. This microscale to millimeter-scale addressable pyroMEMS enables the integration of intelligence into centimeter-scale pyrotechnical systems. To illustrate this technological evolution, we hereby present the development of a smart infrared (IR) electronically controllab

SUBMITTER: Pouchairet JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7911588 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature