Title :
Silicon microsystems merging sensors, circuits and systems
Author :
Manoli, Yiannos ; Mokwa, Wilfried
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelectron., Saarlandes Univ., Saarbrucken, Germany
Abstract :
While the electronic properties of silicon are widely utilized in high-volume IC manufacturing, the use of its mechanical as well as its other properties is still lagging behind. Recent advances in IC-compatible micro-machining techniques, however, have created the technological basis for constructing miniature, high-precision, mechanical structures in and on silicon. Thus microsensors and microactuators can be merged together with sophisticated microelectronics to create microsystems. This tutorial shows that besides lowering manufacturing costs, the silicon integration of both sensors and electronics offers several other significant advantages
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; elemental semiconductors; microactuators; micromachining; microsensors; silicon; IC manufacturing; IC-compatible micromachining; Si; microactuators; microsensors; microsystems; silicon integration; silicon microsystems; Circuits and systems; Manufacturing; Mechanical factors; Mechanical sensors; Merging; Microactuators; Microelectronics; Microsensors; Sensor systems; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1998. ICCD '98. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-9099-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1998.727134