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    Bangalore University

    MEMS
    Vijaya Venkatesh Gumaste 1st Sem ME (AMT) UVCE

    What are MEMS?


    Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is the integration of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a common silicon substrate through microfabrication technology.

    What are Microsystems (MST)? Tiny, integrated, self-aware, stand-alone products, (based on microfabricated components) that can

    Courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories

    Microsystems and Nanotechnology

    In few countries, Microsystems is the term of choice. Also, Nanotechnology is often used interchangeably with Microsystems and MEMS. Hence the confusion.
    Nano Satellites weigh less than 10kg. The units depicted here are about the size of a paperback.

    MEMS Vs. Integrated Circuits (ICs)


    One way to look at it:
    ICs move and sense electrons MEMS move and sense mass

    Another:
    ICs use Semiconductor processing technologies MEMS can use a variety of processes including Semiconductor but also Bulk, Surface Micromachining

    Packaging
    IC packaging consists of electrical connections in and out of a sealed environment MEMS packaging not only includes input and output of electrical signals, but may also include optical connections, fluidic capillaries, gas channels and openings to the environment. A much greater challenge.

    MEMS and ICs


    ICs ICs are based on the transistor a basic unit or building block of ICs. Most ICs are Silicon based, depositing a relatively small set of materials. Equipment tool sets and processes are very similar between different IC fabricators and applications there is a dominant front end technology base. MEMS Does not have a basic building block there is no MEMS equivalent of a transistor. Some MEMS are silicon based and use sacrificial surface micromachining (CMOS based) technology. Some MEMS are hybrids (different wafer materials bonded), some are plastic based or ceramic utilizing a variety of processes Surface & bulk micromachining, electrodeposition, hot plastic embossing, extrusion on the micro scale etc. There is no single dominant front end technology base but emerging and established MEMS applications have started to self-select dominant front-end technology pathways (MANCEF 2nd Roadmap).

    More on What are MEMS?


    MEMS devices first took off in the sensor industry. Most MEMS devices have at least one transducer element.
    To sense To actuate

    Transducer is a device or system that converts one form of energy to another force to voltage, voltage to force,

    MEMS Applications
    Accelerometers (Inertial Sensors Crash Bags, Navigation, Safety) Ink Jet Print Heads Micro Fluidic Pumps Insulin Pump (drug delivery) Pressure Sensor Auto and Bio applications Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) MOEM Micro Optical Electro Mechanical Systems DMD Digital Mirror Device DM Deformable Mirror Chem Lab on a Chip Homeland security RF (Radio Frequency) MEMS Low insertion loss switches (High Frequency) Mass Storage Devices

    MEMS Pressure Sensors


    Pressure Sensors
    1960s technology Used primarily in Aerospace industry at the beginning. Companies:
    Kulite Honeywell
    Makes use of the Micromachining of glass and silicon (bulk etching).

    When the automotive industry found that these sensors could help improve engine performance including gas mileage, these systems become more and more useful. Really took off in the 70s when fuel economy starting becoming more important.

    Pressure Sensors
    TRW Commercial Gas Engine Sensor - 1985

    Top view of the TRW (1985) pressure sensor, the metal components are on top of the silicon membrane and are stressed when there is a pressure differential.

    Ink Jet
    Ink jet printers are MEMS based late 1970s, IBM and HP

    The Accelerometer
    1987 TRW NovaSensor Accelerometer First generation inertial sensor Poppy seed is on top to show scale.

    Analog Devices 1993 Saab was the first automobile company to include MEMS accelerometers to trigger airbags.
    A irbag3.avi

    Combined standard CMOS technology with MEMS fabrication MEMS-based systems answered the call of government regulated passive restraints in automobiles where these systems sensed rapid deceleration and in the event of a collision sent a signal to inflate rapidly an airbag.

    Increasingly Sophisticated Inertial Sensors Are Being Developed

    Analog Devices and Bosch are leaders in automotive inertial sensors. Berkeley is a leader in microsystems research at the University level. Inertial sensors measure a change in velocity (acceleration). The first and most prevalent of these is the crash sensor. A more recent application is in IBMs ThinkPad Laptop.

    Hard Drive Magnetic Read/Write Heads


    By incorporating MEMS actuation, the head can be positioned more quickly and to finer tolerances, this results in higher density data capability.

    Micro Machines
    Surface Micromachining takes off in the 1990s. These photos are from Sandia National Laboratories

    This basically consists of alternating layers of structural materials (poly crystalline silicon) and sacrificial layers (Silicon Dioxide). The sacrificial layer is a scaffold and acts as a temporary support and spacing material. The last step of the process is the release step, where the sacrificial layer is removed freeing the structural layers so they can move.

    MEMS as Machines
    MEMS are often referred to as Micro Machines. Tiny devices that move things.

    View of a surface micro machined device close up of a flip mirror with the legs of a mite. Each gear tooth is 8 microns wide.

    MOEMs
    Micro Optical Electro Mechanical Systems
    MEMS or Microsystems have the potential of having a greater impact on global business and society than did the computer chip. - TI

    Development started 1980s, first commercial product - 1996

    How Small are these Mirrors?


    Pin Point

    Each mirror is about 17m square!

    Ant Leg
    DMD mirrors complete DLP units have over 2 million mirrors all functioning!

    1996 Micro Optics Bench

    Berkeley

    There are two mirrors, three Fresnel lenses and at the far right a semiconductor laser (placed there after the optic fabrication).

    Additional Applications of MOEMS

    Micro Needles

    MEMS needle within the opening of a small hypodermic needle Smaller size reduces pain and tissue damage now there are much smaller MEMS needle arrays. The plastic needle array is made through a standard MEMS fabrication process to make the molds, micro injection process is used to create the arrays. Procter and Gamble Plastic Needle Array

    Biomedical Applications
    Micromachine needles used to deliver drugs

    75 microns

    Courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories

    Monolithically Integrated ChemLab

    Courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories

    BioMEMS
    The Overlap between microbiology and microsystem feature sizes makes integration between the two possible
    Nucleus Ribosome

    Eukaryotic cells

    Bacteria

    Viruses

    Proteins

    100 m

    10 m

    1 m

    0.1 m

    0.01 m (10 nm)

    0.001 m (1 nm)

    Atom

    Surface Micromachining Features (MEMS)

    Visible Light

    Gate of Leading Edge Transistor

    Molecules

    Nanotechnology Meets MEMS

    Cantilever Sensors
    As mass is added to the cantilever shifts the resonance frequency.

    A gold dot, about 50 nanometers in diameter, fused to the end of a cantilevered oscillator about 4 micrometers long. A one-molecule-thick layer of a sulfur-containing chemical deposited on the gold adds a mass of about 6 attograms, which is more than enough to measure. Craighead Group/Cornell Univeristy

    Detection of a single E.coli Cell


    Single Cell on Cantilever AFM of E.Coli Cells

    Resonance Shift due to Single Cell

    From the webpage of Prof. Harold G. Craighead , School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
    http://www.hgc.cornell.edu/biomems.html

    Cantilever sensors
    Process used to make cantilever sensors Cornell Philip S. Waggoner

    Cantilever is the MEMS part functionalizing it is the Nano piece.

    Mass Storage - IBM


    IBMs Millipede 100 Tera Bit per square inch!

    Thank you all.

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