UCF’s Jaesung Lee and UF’s Philip Feng are working to develop a magnetic levitation system that could improve the performance of inertia sensors, which measure parameters of a moving object such as velocity, acceleration, orientation, and gravitational forces. They’re used in military applications and in smartphones, automobiles, and airplanes.
The team hopes to achieve this improved stability and performance through diamagnetic levitation, or a “hovering” effect. Diamagnetic materials are materials that are repelled and stabilized by a magnetic field. In the future, they plan to explore the potential of their levitation technology in fields such as precision measurement systems, quantum engineering, and advanced communication technologies.
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