MET Technology is powering a number of inertial sensing devices:

Angular sensing devices:

• Angular accelerometers- small devices (9mm in diameter) that measure angular acceleration from DC. By integrating the output one can use these accelerometers to calculate an angular rate.
• Rate sensors – These devices are based on much the same principals as the angular accelerometers, but “integrate” the acceleration internally in the sensing element, not in electronics.

Linear sensing devices:

• Non DC-sensitive linear accelerometers and sensors that measure velocity. These are sensors that find their use in seismic sensing applications. Next generation sensors are scheduled to be release on November 15th, 2008.
• DC-sensitive linear accelerometers. Used in navigation and guidance applications.

Because of very low self-noise, the performance (in terms of the sensors’ precision as measured by cumulative error) for pretty much any of our devices will be better than that of even the highest performance MEMS sensors.  

All of the above devices may be requested for testing. The lead time is about 4 weeks.

All of the devices at this point are manufactured in our lab by mechanically assembling the sensing element and placing it inside the ceramic housing. The sensor is then filled with electrolyte, equipped with an electronic board and calibrated.

The Company is in the process of developing new high-volume manufacturing processes for the sensing element, and we should receive our first samples in June. These new manufacturing techniques will also improve the sensors’ performance.

Pipeline:   

Gyroscope.

It will detect DC and is projected to have good performance characteristics compared to state-of-the-art small gyros (see below). The work is in the prototype stage.