Abstract:
Since 2000, we have entered the age of sensing and interacting with the wide diffusion of MEMS and sensors that give us a better and safer perception of our environment. MEMS have grown in volume to be almost a 15 billion units market today. And, we believe that this market will double to almost 30 billion by 2020, in less than 5 years! Since its early beginning, MEMS technology has been considered as a “transfer function” technology: taking existing products such as Hg tilt sensors, syringe, galvanometric mirror and transforming them into IMU, micro-needles, micro-mirrors. The interest of MEMS relies on the miniaturization and lower cost manufacturing brought by a semiconductor technology. The presentation will highlight which devices will (or can) take full benefit of the MEMS miniaturization platform in order to fuel the growth of the MEMS industry.