MEMS from the nanoscale up
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Graduate |
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MEMS/NEMS Mechanical Engineering Nanotechnology |
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ME Magazine Features |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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| Description: | Feature article from ME Magazine, March 2007. It begins: "Microsystems: Before microsystems can fulfill their promise, engineers have to understand that the macroscale rules don't necessarily apply. Over the past decade, silicon microelectromechanical systems technology has gradually increased its foothold in mechanical engineering. Favored for their low cost, reliability, and small size?qualities inherited from the integrated circuit manufacturing process?relatively simple MEMS devices began finding their way into consumer applications a decade and a half ago. Something else was happening back then. At the time that the market was benefiting from microscale automotive airbag sensors and inkjet modules, considerably more complex microsystems were being considered for use in space applications, where miniaturization is a prime goal in the design of military and non-military payloads alike. Such payloads are limited in terms of mass and volume, so when a new function needs to be added to the system, it must be accomplished through miniaturization. |
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Mechanical Engineering Magazine Online Machine Design Magazine |
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Reference that is accessible to a general audience Good introduction to the role that ME plays in MEMS. Could be useful in an introductory MEMS course or a freshman engineering course. Might also be useful for high school recruitment. |
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| Publication Date: | March 2007 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/memsfrom/mems |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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