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Article: MEMS technologies roll forward: new applications, mandates help drive advances.(Sensors)(micro-electromechanical systems)
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- Design News
- Article date:
- August 18, 2003
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The solid state sensor field is making significant technology advances as MEMS permits higher integration and networking improves functionality. These advances are opening up new markets, pushing volumes higher, and increasing the money flowing into continued development.
A key driving factor for sensors is continued development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), which rocketed from R&D labs in the 1990s to high volume devices at the dawn of this decade.
As MEMS processing capabilities advance, manufacturers are devising new ways to follow the learning curve that comes with silicon manufacturing. Silicon Microstructures Inc. (SMI) of Milpitas, CA ...