{"id":143264,"date":"2024-09-25T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264//?p=143264"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:52:43","slug":"ucf-researcher-refining-magnetic-levitation-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264//ucf-researcher-refining-magnetic-levitation-technology/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Researcher Refining Magnetic Levitation Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF and the 海角直播 of Florida are receiving $1.2 million over two years from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a miniature system capable of levitating a large mass with exceptional stability./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/n

The funding comes from DARPA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/u2019s Trapped Accurate microSystems (LeviTAS) program, which aims to explore the feasibility of replacing a spring anchor with a levitation system to trap a mass roughly the size of a sugar cube within a volume about the size of a Rubik/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/u2019s cube for use in defense systems./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/n

The specific project awarded to UCF and UF is called Full Levitation In MAgnetically Stabilized Systems (FLi-MaSS), and is one of eight teams selected as part of DARPA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/u2019s LeviTAS program./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/n

Jaesung Lee, an assistant professor in UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/u2019s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Philip Feng, a professor in UF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/u2019s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and graduate faculty Department of Physics, are collaborating on the project./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/n

Through their FLi-MaSS project, Lee and Feng are hoping to transform levitated systems by achieving unprecedented stability and performance metrics crucial for next-generation navigation sensors that may be applied for defense and civilian uses./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/n

The team plans to achieve this through diamagnetic levitation or a /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/u201chovering/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/u201d effect. Diamagnetic materials are materials that are repelled and stabilized by a magnetic field./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143264/n