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Design and Fabrication of Microelectromechanical Devices
Spring 2007
Topics
- Introduction to MEMS; microfabrication for MEMS: part I
- Microfabrication for MEMS: part II
- Microfabrication for MEMS: part III
- Microfabrication for MEMS: part IV; in-class fab problem
- Fabrication for the life sciences; material properties
- Elasticity or electronics I
- Structures or electronics II
- Lumped-element modeling
- Energy-conserving transducers
- Dynamics, especially nonlinear
- Structures special topics
- Thermal energy domain; dissipation
- Modeling dissipative processes
- Fluids 1
- Fluids 2
- Transport
- Feedback
- Noise
- Packaging
- In-class design problem
- Design tradeoffs
- Power MEMS case study
- Optical MEMS case study
- Capacitive accelerometer case study
- BioMEMS case study
Readings
- Senturia, Stephen D. Microsystem Design . New York, NY: Springer, 2004. ISBN: 9780792372462.
- Madou, Marc. Fundamentals of Microfabrication . Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780849394515. The 2002 edition is also fine.
- Kovacs, Gregory T. A. Micromachined Transducers Sourcebook . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN: 9780072907223.
- Maluf, Nadim. An Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems Engineering . Boston, MA: Artech House, 1999. ISBN: 9780890065815.
- Nathan, Arokia, and Henry Baltes. Microtransducer CAD: Physical and Computational Aspects . New York, NY: Springer, 1999. ISBN: 9783211831038.
- Romanowicz, Bartlomiej. Methodology for the Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems . New York, NY: Springer, 1997. ISBN: 9780792383062.
- Tabib-Azar, Masood. Microactuators . Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic, 1997. ISBN: 9780792380894.
- Gardner, Julian W. Microsensors: Principles and Applications . New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. ISBN: 9780471941361.
- Ristic, Ljubisa, ed. Sensor Technology and Devices . Boston, MA: Artech House, 1994. ISBN: 9780890065327.
- Ballantine, D. S, Jr., et al. Acoustic Wave Sensors: Theory, Design, and Physico-Chemical Applications . Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780120774609.
- De Los Santos, Hector J. Introduction to Microelectromechanical (MEM) Microwave Systems . Boston, MA: Artech House, 1999. ISBN: 9780890062821.
- Gere, James M., and Stephen P. Timoshenko. Mechanics of Materials . 2nd ed. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1984. ISBN: 9788123908946.
- A more recent edition: Gere, James, and Barry Goodno. Mechanics of Materials . Florence, KY: Cengage-Engineering, 2008. ISBN: 9780534553975.
- Campbell, Stephen A. The Science and Engineering of Microelectronic Fabrication . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780195136050.
- Muller, Richard S., Roger T. Howe, and Stephen D. Senturia, eds. Microsensors . New York, NY: IEEE Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780879422455.
- Trimmer, William, ed. Micromechanics and MEMS . New York, NY: Wiley-IEEE Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780780310858.
- Transducers ‘XX (International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators), odd-numbered years since 1983, proceedings available from IEEE (US Meetings), Elsevier (European Meetings), IEE Japan (Japanese Meetings).
- MEMS ‘XX (IEEE Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), annual since 1989.
- Eurosensors ‘XX, annual since 1987, proceedings published in special issues of Sensors and Actuators.
- Solid-State Sensors and Actuators Workshop, Hilton Head, SC, even-numbered years since 1984, proceedings available from Transducer Research Foundation.
- Japanese Sensor Symposium, annual since 1982; technical digest published in English by the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEE).
- All readings presented in the table below refer to the required textbook:
- Senturia, Stephen D. Microsystem Design . New York, NY: Springer, 2004. ISBN: 9780792372462.
- LEC #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction to MEMS; microfabrication for MEMS: part I · READINGS: Chapters 1 and 2
- LEC #: 2 · TOPICS: Microfabrication for MEMS: part II · READINGS: Chapters 3 and 4
- LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Microfabrication for MEMS: part III · READINGS: Chapters 3 and 4
- LEC #: 4 · TOPICS: Microfabrication for MEMS: part IV; in-class fab problem · READINGS: Chapters 3 and 5
- LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Elasticity or electronics I · READINGS: Chapters 8 and 14
- LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Structures or electronics II · READINGS: Chapters 9 and 14
- LEC #: 8 · TOPICS: Lumped-element modeling · READINGS: Chapter 5
- LEC #: 9 · TOPICS: Energy-conserving transducers · READINGS: Chapter 6
- LEC #: 10 · TOPICS: Dynamics, especially nonlinear · READINGS: Chapter 7
- LEC #: 11 · TOPICS: Structures special topics · READINGS: Chapter 10
- LEC #: 12 · TOPICS: Thermal energy domain; dissipation · READINGS: Chapter 11
- LEC #: 13 · TOPICS: Modeling dissipative processes · READINGS: Chapter 12
- LEC #: 14 · TOPICS: Fluids 1 · READINGS: Chapter 13
- LEC #: 15 · TOPICS: Fluids 2 · READINGS: Chapter 13
- LEC #: 16 · TOPICS: Transport · READINGS: Chapter 13
- LEC #: 17 · TOPICS: Feedback · READINGS: Chapter 15
- LEC #: 18 · TOPICS: Noise · READINGS: Chapter 16
- LEC #: 19 · TOPICS: Packaging · READINGS: Chapter 17
- LEC #: 23 · TOPICS: Optical MEMS case study · READINGS: Chapter 20
- LEC #: 24 · TOPICS: Capacitive accelerometer case study · READINGS: Chapter 19
- LEC #: 25 · TOPICS: BioMEMS case study · READINGS: Chapter 22
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.