Mission

Our mission is the advancement of human thought and improvement of human condition through scientific research and education activities.  The current focus of those activities is on the emerging areas of microsystems technology and nanotechnology.

New Live Online Demos

ARI Micromirror Development Kit Live Demos:

News

ARI's gimbal-less two-axis scanning mirror technology commercialized by Mirrorcle Technologies Inc. was recently used in a demonstration by National Instruments at the NI Week 2009 event in Austin, TX. See the video of fast laser tracking based on NI's FPGA hardware and Mirrorcle Technologies MEMS mirror. (Actual demonstration begins at ~3 min and 20 sec.)

We demonstrated real-time fast-motion tracking of an object in a 3D volume, while obtaining its precise XYZ co-ordinates. Two separate scanning MEMS micromirror sub-systems track the object in a 20 kHz closed-loop. A demonstration system capable of tracking full-speed human hand motion provides position information at up to 5m distance with 16-bit precision, or <=20 µ m precision on the X and Y axes (up/down, left/right,) and precision on the depth (Z-axis) from 10 µ m to 1.5mm, depending on distance.

High temperature operation of laser scanning micromirorrs demonstrated - standard ARIMEMS two-axis micromirrors scan at 200°C with no measurable reduction in performance. See device characterization report for a typical ARI two-axis micromirror scanner at room temperature and at 200°C.

Vector Graphic Laser Display and Raster-type Laser Display demonstrated withi ARI Micromirror Devices - see the MEMS-Based Display page

MEMS micromirror devices for projection displays at QVGA, VGA, and SVGA specifications are now demonstrated for projection applications and available.

Download and View recent Video Demonstrations of MEMS Two-Axis (2D) Laser Scanners

Publications and Research

Conference and Journal Publications

Research areas and results

Recent Events & Courses

Presentation by Dr. Veljko Milanović: “Linearized Gimbal-less Two-Axis MEMS Mirrors," 2009 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC'09), San Diego, CA, Mar. 25, 2009.

Presentation by Dr. Veljko Milanović: “Fast and High-Precision 3D Tracking and Position Measurement with MEMS Micromirrors," 2008 IEEE/LEOS Optical MEMS and Their Applications Conf., Freiburg, Germany, Aug. 12, 2008.

Presentation by Dr. Veljko Milanović: “Improved Control of the Vertical Axis Scan for MEMS Projection Displays," 2007 IEEE/LEOS Optical MEMS and Their Applications Conf., Hualien, Taiwan, Aug. 12, 2007.

Presentation by Dr. Andrew Miner: “High Temperature Operation of Gimbal-less Two-Axis Micromirrors," 2007 IEEE/LEOS Optical MEMS and Their Applications Conf., Hualien, Taiwan, Aug. 12, 2007.

Presentation by Dr. Veljko Milanović: “Highly Adaptable MEMS-based Display with Wide Projection Angle," 2007 IEEE Int. Conf. on Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS'07), Kobe, Japan, Jan. 25, 2007.

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