Industries
Microelectronics and MEMS Fabrication
Microelectronics and MEMS fabrication companies manufacture pressure sensors, accelerometers, microphones, gyroscopes, and microfluidic devices using silicon microfabrication. University clean-room facilities at MIT, Stanford, and ETH are key innovation sources, with companies regularly licensing novel process flows, sensor architectures, and packaging techniques developed in academic fabs.
Details
- Companies
- Texas Instruments MEMSSTMicroelectronicsBosch Sensortecams-OSRAMSilex MicrosystemsX-Fab Silicon FoundriesimecApplied MicrostructuresCohuFormFactor
- Market Size
- $14B
- Target Researchers
- Electrical engineers, materials scientists, and physicists specializing in MEMS design, photolithography, thin-film deposition, reactive ion etching, wafer bonding, and integration of microfluidic, sensing, and actuator functions for commercial devices
- Use Cases
- MEMS process design kit licensingSensor prototyping foundry accessWafer-level packaging technology transferClean-room fabrication service contractsNovel transduction mechanism co-developmentSensor algorithm development partnerships