MEMS Technology Application and Market Development

MEMS has universal application, but its packaging experience principal is an important reason to determine whether it can have a bright future.

MEMS and its applications

MEMS skills use micro-manufacturing skills to integrate sensors, machine components, actuators, and electronics in a blatant wafer. MEMS1 will generally be regarded as a system-on-a-chip (SoC), which will allow smart products to be opened up, and be able to enter a large number of secondary markets, including automotive, health care, mobile phones, biotechnology, consumer goods and other categories. Supply solution. According to the data of the electronics industry market research and information network, the average annual increase rate of MEMS is higher than 0%, and it is estimated that in 2010, it was 100 billion US dollars higher. MEMS skills have been considered as one of the most promising skills in the next century.

MEMS has a lot of applications and is accepted by more and more products. Some common applications of MEMS include automotive, biotechnology and medical, and consumer electronics. MEMS is also used in a large number of acoustic wave duplexers and filters, microphones, MEMS active focus actuators, pressure sensors, MEMS pico projectors, and even MEMS gyroscopes.

MEMS company

Globally, MEMS products have been developed by several U.S. and Asian companies, including STMicroelectronics, Analog Devices (ADI), Hewlett-Packard (HP), Texas Instruments (TI), and Memsic. The status of various manufacturers and their important MEMS products will be described below.

STMicroelectronics is one of the largest MEMS manufacturers, offering universal selection of single-axis and multi-axis gyroscopes, a wide range of full-scale ranges, real-world applications for digital cameras and digital video recorders, and improving users in gaming applications. Experience. ST also supplies a 3-axis gyroscope that accurately measures angular rates along three orthogonal axes. In addition, STM has expanded its own product portfolio with next-generation micromotor acoustics. The innovative MEMS microphone uses Omron's sensor technology, can greatly improve the sound quality, has excellent reliability, robustness, and has good capital benefits for existing / emerging audio applications, such as mobile phones, wireless devices and Handheld game consoles, etc. The key is that MEMS microphones can be made smaller than the smallest electret condenser microphones, and are less sensitive to temperature changes, machine vibrations, and electromagnetic nuisances.

Analog Devices also supplies analog and digital omnidirectional MEMS microphones. Recently, ADI and Infineon Technologies agreed to jointly grow a new generation of automotive airbag safety systems. This ADI-Infineon Mutual Aid intends to ensure that the two companies are supporting the corresponding product growth blueprint, as well as the interoperability of their respective sensors and chipsets. This mutual assistance will also accelerate the growth of the progressive airbag system, and provide a complete design platform for security system suppliers and OEMs to achieve a progressive airbag solution that is reliable, cost-effective, and easy to use.

Hewlett-Packard recently introduced an inertial sensing technology that can be used to develop digital MEMS accelerometers that can be used as high-end sensors. HP speculates that this skill will increase the chip's sharpness by a thousand times over the bulk commodities on the current day market. This sensor is based on the MEMS skills that the company has taken the lead in trading applications in its printer cartridges.

In addition, the digital light processor (DLP) technology possessed by TI provides open platforms and chip sets for innovative applications with light processing and light steering needs.