MIT Technology Licensing Office
System for discretely actuated solar mirrors
System for establishing a surface shape. The system includes a compliant substrate including the surface and having a reverse side, and a plurality of discrete actuators engaging the reverse side and arranged in a selected pattern to control the surface shape as individual discrete activators are activated. It is preferred that the actuators have multiple discrete stable states of elongation. A particularly preferred embodiment uses actuators that are binary with two stable states of elongation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Steven Amy M. Seung J.
Dubowsky Bilton Lee