{"id":2304,"date":"2003-05-01T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:09:52","slug":"mechanical-characterization-and-design-of-flexible-silicon-carbide-microstructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/mechanical-characterization-and-design-of-flexible-silicon-carbide-microstructures\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Characterization and Design of Flexible Silicon Carbide Microstructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Robert Hous with Mehran Mehregany<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Mechanical Characterization and Design of Flexible Silicon Carbide Microstructures<\/h3>\n<p>This project will investigate the feasibility of utilizing silicon carbide (SiC) in miniature flexible ribbon cables.\u00a0 These cables have applications in implantable neural sensors, where their flexibility and biocompatibility make them ideal for such applications.\u00a0 Previous works using Boron doped Silicon show great success, with the biggest disadvantage of the Boron doped Silicon being its relative fragility.\u00a0 This study will measure the material strengths of SiC, and then compare these findings to the previously measured strength of Boron doped Si.\u00a0 Material strengths for the SiC will be recorded for a variety of different structures.\u00a0 Each structure will be stressed to the point of failure in either a bending, twisting, or pushing mode to determine exact values for the structure\u2019s strength.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hous with Mehran MehreganyMechanical Characterization and Design of Flexible Silicon Carbide Microstructures<\/p>\n<p>This project will investigate the feasibility of utilizing silicon carbide (SiC) in miniature flexible ribbon cables.\u00a0 These cables have applications in implantable neural sensors, where their flexibility and biocompatibility make them ideal for such applications.\u00a0 Previous works using Boron doped Silicon show great success, with the biggest disadvantage of the Boron doped Silicon being its relative fragility.\u00a0 This study will measure the material strengths of SiC, and then compare these findings to the previously measured strength of Boron doped Si.\u00a0 Material strengths for the SiC will be recorded for a variety of different structures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/mechanical-characterization-and-design-of-flexible-silicon-carbide-microstructures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanical Characterization and Design of Flexible Silicon Carbide Microstructures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[87,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}