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Introductory MEMS

Fabrication and Applications

  • One of the first texts written that is accessible to undergraduate technical majors regardless of specific discipline
  • Describes sensors, actuators, and microfluidics, and their relationship with MEMS
  • Includes laboratory exercises designed to facilitate student learning about the basic microfabrication processes
  • Provides review questions and problems at the end of each chapter to summarize learning objectives
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Fabrication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 3-16
    3. The substrate and adding material to it

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 17-63
    4. Creating and transferring patterns—Photolithography

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 65-94
    5. Creating structures—Micromachining

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 95-130
    6. Solid mechanics

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 131-153
  3. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
    2. Thinking about modeling

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 157-165
    3. MEMS transducers—An overview of how they work

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 167-210
    4. Piezoresistive transducers

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 211-230
    5. Capacitive transducers

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 231-253
    6. Piezoelectric transducers

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 255-282
    7. Thermal transducers

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 283-316
    8. Introduction to microfluidics

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 317-368
  4. Microfabrication laboratories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 369-369
  5. Laboratories

    1. Microfabrication laboratories

      • Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton
      Pages 371-403
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 1-37

About this book

Introductory MEMS: Fabrication and Applications is a practical introduction to MEMS for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Part I introduces the student to the most commonly used MEMS fabrication techniques as well as the MEMS devices produced using these techniques. Part II focuses on MEMS transducers: principles of operation, modeling from first principles, and a detailed look at commercialized MEMS devices, in addition to microfluidics. Multiple field-tested laboratory exercises are included, designed to facilitate student learning about the fundamentals of microfabrication processes. References, suggested reading, review questions, and homework problems are provided at the close of each chapter.

Introductory MEMS: Fabrication and Applications is an excellent introduction to the subject, with a tested pedagogical structure and an accessible writing style suitable for students at an advanced undergraduate level across academic disciplines.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, U.S.A.

    Thomas M. Adams, Richard A. Layton

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