MESF 595 Introductions of Microsystem: Technology and Devices

 

Course Description:

Physics of Scaling; energy transduction, sensing and actuation principles; micro-fabrication technology and technology fundamentals; film formation, photolithography and etching; integrated Microsystems and Microsystems packaging.

Exclusion: MECH 595

 

Instructor:

Dr Yi-Kuen Lee

Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKUST

Tel: 2358-8663, E-mail: meyklee@ust.hk

 

Textbook:

Microelectromechanical Systems: Advanced Materials and Fabrication Methods, The National Academies Press, Washington DC, USA, 1997 (ISBN: 0-309-05980-1). free online

 

Grading Policy:

Homework: 15%

Class attendance and participation: 5%

Mid-term exam: 30%, Date: 18 April 2007, Venue: Rm 2407 (2/F, Lift 27-28)

Final Term Project:  50%

 

Date: 30 May 2007, Time: 6:30pm-9:50pm, Venue: Rm 2504 (2/F, Lift 27-28)

Description of the MESF 595 term project

Final Term Project Presentation Schedule 

 

All the MESF 595 Project files,  zipped  New!!!

 

Lecture Time & Venue:  7:00pm-10:00pm, Wednesday, Rm 2504 (2/F, Lift 25/26)

 

Course Syllabus

 

Outline of Lecture: 

 

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         K. Peterson, Silicon as Mechanical Material, Proceedings of the IEEE, 70(5), 402-457, 1982.      

         K. Petersen, “A New Age for MEMS”, IEEE Transducers’05, Seoul, Korea, pp.1-4, Jun 5-9, 2005.

         H. Fujita, “A decade of MEMS and its future,” IEEE MEMS’97, Nagoya, Japan, pp.1-7, 1997.

 

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          W.S.N. Trimmer, MEMS Scaling

          W. S. N. Trimmer, “Microrobots & micromechanical systems,” Sensors & Actuators,19(3),1989,

          267-287,1989.

          C-J Kim ,et al, “Comparative evaluation of drying techniques for surface micromachining,” Sensors

          and Actuators A, 64(1) 17-26, 1998

          Morini, Int. J. of Thermal Sci. Vo. 43, 631, 2004 (review)

          Bousse, L., et al,, Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct., 29, 155-181, 2000.

          G. Beni and S. Hackwood, Appl. Phys. Lett. 38, 4, pp.207-209, 1981

 

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           J. Bryzek, K. Peterson, W. McCulley, “Micromachine on the March,” IEEE Spectrum,

           Vol. 31, No.5, pp.20-31, May 1994.      

 

           R.T. Howe, R.S. Muller, K.J. Gabriel and W.S.N. Trimmer, “Silicon Micromechanics: Sensors and

          Actuators on a Chip,” IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 27, No. 7, pp.29-31, 34-35, Jul. 1990.

         

          Piezoresistance Effect in Germanium and Silicon, Phys. Rev. Vol. 94, No. 1, pp.42–49, 1954.

         

          Introduction to Sensors, pp. 9-18, Expanding the Vision of Sensors Materials (Chap 1), National

          Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1995.         

 

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               S.C. Gong and C. Lee, Analytical Solutions of Sensitivity for Pressure Microsensors, IEEE Sensor

               Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4, 340-344, 2001.

 

               S.-C. Kim and K.D. Wise, “Temperature Sensitivity in Silicon Piezoresistive Pressure Transduers,”

               IEEE Trans. on Electron Device, vol. ED-30, No. 7, pp.802-810, 1983.

 

               K. Suzuki, et al, “Nonlinear Analysis on CMOS Integrated Silicon Pressure Sensor, IEEE IEDM,

               pp.137-140, 1985.

 

               H. Tanigawa, T. Ishihara, M. Hirata and K. Suzuki, “MOS Integrated Silicon Pressure Sensor,”

               IEEE Trans. of Electron Devices, vol. ED-32, No. 7, pp.1191-1195, 1985.

 

               C.D. Fung and W.H. Ko, Miniature Capacitve Pressure Transducers, Sensors and Actuators, Vol. 2,

               pp.321-326, 1982.

 

               C.S. Sander, J.W. Knutti and J.D. Meindl, A Monolithic Capacitive Pressure Transducers with

               Pulse-Period Output, IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. ED-17, No. 5, pp.927-930, 1980.

 

               M.J.S. Smith, et al., “A Micropower IC for a Biomedical Pressure Transducer,” Intl Conf on Solid-

                State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers’85), Philadelphia, pp.42-45, 1985.

 

                S.B. Cray, et al, “Digital Compensation of High-Performance Silicon Pressure Transducers,

               “Sensors and Actuators, Vol. A21,pp. 70-72, Feb, 1990.

 

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                 K. Peterson, Silicon as Mechanical Material, Proceedings of the IEEE, 70(5), 402-457, 1982.      

 

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9. 18/4/07  Midterm Exam

 

10. 25/4/07  MESF595_9

 

11. 02/5/07  MESF595_10

                    T.-H. Wang et al., A Zepto Mole DNA Micro Sensor, IEEE-MEMS, 431-434, 2001

                    F.-G. Tseng et al., A Monolithic, High Frequency Response, High-Resolution Microinjector

                    array Ejecting Sub Pico-liter Droplets without Satellite Drops – Part I: Concepts, Designs and

                    Molding,” Journal of MEMS, 11(5), 427-436, Oct, 2002.

 

                 F.-G. Tseng et al., A Monolithic, High Frequency Response, High-Resolution Microinjector

                 array Ejecting Sub Pico-liter Droplets without Satellite Drops – – Part II: Fabrication,

                 Characterization and Performance Comparison,” Journal of MEMS, 11(5), 437-447, 2002.

 

                 M. Masahara et al. “Ultrathin channel vertical DG MOSFET fabricated by using ion-

                 bombardment-retarded etching,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 51(12), 2078-2085,

                 2004.

 

12. 09/5/07

                ASME MEMS video: Case Studies of Commercial Products

                R.S. Payne, S. Sherman, S. Lewis, R.T. Howe, “Surface micromachining: from vision to reality to

                vision,” The 42nd IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 1995), 164-165,

                358, San Francisco, USA, 1995.

 

                R.S. Payne, “MEMS commercialization: ingredients for success,” The 13th International

                Conference on MEMS (IEEE MEMS 2000), pp.7-10, Miyazaki, Japan, 2000.

 

 

13. 16/5/07

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                Robert D. "Skip" Rung, Robert Beeson, “Thermal Inkjet Technology - Review and Outlook,” The

                3rd  International Conference on Imaging Science and Hardcopy, Chongqing, China, May 26-29,

                1998.

 

                F. Jiang et al., "Flexible shear stress sensor skin for aerodynamics applications,"  IEEE MEMS            

                2000, Miyazaki, Japan, pp.364-369, 2000.

 

A.     Bertsch, S. Jiguets, P. Bernhard, P. Renaud, “Microstereolithography: a Review,” Mat. Res.

Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. 758, LL1.1.1-LL1.1.12.

 

Wenhui Zhou et al., “An Efficient Two-Photon-Generated Photoacid Applied to Positive-Tone 3D Microfabrication,” Science, 296(5570) 1106-1109, 2002.

 

S. Kawata et al., “Finer features for functional microdevices,” Nature, 412, 697-698, 2001.

 

Homeworks:

 

Homework#1 due: 14 Feb 2007, Note: NHK Nanospace video can be found in HKUST library (v.3).

 

Homework#2 due: 7 Mar 2007, Ref: Varioptics Inc, France

 

Term Project Proposal due: 4 Apr 2007. Description of the MESF 595 term project

 

References:

 

Dr. Daniel Bank’s Microengineering Overviews

Gives short overviews of topics such as microengineering, photolithography, silicon micromachining, mask design, microsystems, microsensors, microactuators, and and microcomponent assembly and packaging

 

Introduction to Microengineering Supplement by Dr. Daniel Banks

More information on microengineering including background, the effect of microengineering on future business, applications for microengineering, and microengineering technology

 

MEMS Learning Cybercenter

This site refers you to almost all sources of education about MEMS, including research being done on MEMS by leading universities and national laboratories and regional groups

 

Implications of Emerging Micro and Nanotechnology, by Air Force Science and Technology Board, The National Academies Press, Washington DC, USA, 2002. free online, NetLibrary, Amazon

 

Books:

1. Fundamentals of Microfabrication: The Science of Miniaturization, 2nd ed., Marc Madou, CRC

     Press, 2002. ISBN: 0849308267 (TK7836 .M33, HKUST LIB)

2. Implications of Emerging Micro and Nanotechnology, by Air Force Science and Technology  

    Board, The National Academies Press, Washington DC, USA, 2002. free online

3. Micromachined Transducers Sourcebook, Gregory T.A. Kovac, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:

    0072907223, 1998.

4. Semiconductor Sensors, S.M. Sze, John Wiley & Son, ISBN: 0471546097, 1994.

5. Microsystem Design, Stephen D. Senturia, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN:

    0792372468, 2001.

6. Microsensors, Principles and Applications, Julian W. Gardner, John Wiley & Son, Inc,

    ISBN: 0471941352, 1994.

 

Magazines/Newsletter:

 

1. Micromachine Devices, R&D Magazine 2000 Clearwater Drive, Oak Brook, IL60523  

    (www.rdmag.com)

2. MSTnews, VDI/VDE-Technologiezentrum, Germany (www.mstnews.de)

3. SmallTimes,  http://www.smalltimes.com

4. MEMS Clearinghouse, http://www.memsnet.org

    subscribe MEMS mailing list   http://mail.mems-exchange.org

 

List of Companies in the world involve MEMS R&D (from HKUST MECH597)

 

MEMS Glossary (from Fundamentals of Microfabrication, CRC Press, 1997.)

 

 

 

 

 

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