The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Max Lindsay Turnquist

Marc Steven Weinberg

Paul A Ward

Amy Elizabeth Duwel

James Alan Bickford

William David Sawyer

Daniel Kenneth Freeman

Stephanie Lynne Golmon

Louis Kratchman

Ronald Steven McNabb, Jr

James S Pringle, Jr

William A Lenk

John Joseph LeBlanc

John J Le Blanc

Aspects are generally directed to a compact and low-noise electric field detector, methods of operation, and methods of production thereof. In one example, an electric field detector includes a proof mass, a source of concentrated charge coupled to the proof mass, and a substrate having a substrate offset space defined therein, the proof mass being suspended above the substrate offset space. The electric field detector further includes a sense electrode disposed on the substrate within the substrate offset space and proximate the proof mass, the sense electrode being configured to measure a change in capacitance relative to the proof mass from movement of the proof mass in response to a received electric field at the source of concentrated charge. The electric field detector includes a control circuit coupled to the sense electrode and configured to determine a characteristic of the electric field based on the measured change in capacitance.

Miniature electric field detector

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Max Lindsay Turnquist