New Jersey Institute of Technology

US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Hee C Lim

John F Federici

Zafar Iqbal

Gordon Albert Thomas

Somenath Mitra

Haim Grebel

Roumiana Petrova

James Zunino

Yan Zhang

Daniel J Watts

Laura Battista

Nelson Colon

Yew Li Hor

Joseph Argento

Yew Fong Hor

Flexible metamaterials and three-dimensional metamaterials operable in the terahertz range are disclosed. Methods are disclosed for fabricating terahertz response metamaterials using microfluidic-jetted techniques. Layers of material including substrate and deposited material are stacked to form three dimensional bulk metamaterials. The fabricated metamaterials act as left-handed metamaterials in the range 0.1 to 3.0 THz.

Metamaterials with terahertz response and methods of making same

An active coating system capable of collecting, analyzing, managing and adapting to data and/or its environment in real time. An exemplary embodiment of our inventive active coating system is corrosion resistant and includes a flexible sensor layer, a switch layer and a visual display layer. Operationally, the flexible sensor layer senses particular environmental conditions and the visual display layer provides visual indication of the condition(s) sensed.

Smart coating system

Low pressure sensing and imperviousness to corrosion and to the effects of harsh environments are achieved in a pressure sensor that employs a flexible membrane supporting piezoresistive elements. A plurality of piezoresistive elements are aligned substantially collinearly across one surface of the flexible membrane. Innermost piezoresistive elements are disposed in such a way that they experience tension in response to an applied pressure, whereas outermost piezoresistive elements are disposed in such a way that they experience compression in response to the same applied pressure. Contact pads for each end of each piezoresistive element allow the elements to be configured in any number of desirable arrangements. In one exemplary embodiment, four piezoresistive elements are disposed along a main central axis of the membrane. The contacts of the elements are connected to form a Wheatstone bridge. Conventional Wheatstone bridge techniques are utilized to convert an applied pressure into an output electrical signal. The membrane includes amorphous or nanocrystalline semiconductor layers grown on a flexible substrate such as Kapton or suitable plastic materials.

Flexible thin film pressure sensor

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Hee C Lim