Springer Mems/Nems: (1) Handbook Techniques and Applications Design Methods, (2) Fabrication Techniques, (3) Manufacturing Methods, (4) Sensors and Actuators, (5) Medical Applications and MOEMS: 1-5

This significant and uniquely comprehensive five-volume reference is a valuable source for research workers, practitioners, computer scientists, students, and technologists. It covers all of the major topics within the subject and offers a comprehensive treatment of MEMS design, fabrication techniques, and manufacturing methods. It also includes current medical applications of MEMS technology and provides applications of MEMS to opto-electronic devices. It is clearly written, self-contained, and accessible, with helpful standard features including an introduction, summary, extensive figures and design examples with comprehensive reference lists. Review From the Foreword: The two most valuable features of this major reference work are the breadth of material and the depth of the topics covered. Each volume comprehensively treats a significant and specific subject area of fundamental importance to MEME/NEMS.... Collectively, this material provides tremendous resources for emerging design, fabrication/manufacturing techniques and applications of MEMS/NEMS and MOEMS.... Therefore, the energing techniques, applications, and examples of MEMS/NEMS collected by Professor Leondes in this work provide a wealth of practical ideas and methodologies designed to trigger the development of innovation. The contributors in this major reference work clearly reveal the effectiveness and great significance of the techniques available and with further development the essential role that they will play in the future. Xuan F Zha National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA July 30, 2005   From the Back Cover Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is the integration of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a common silicon substrate. While the electronics are fabricated using integrated circuit (IC) process sequences (e.g., CMOS, Bipolar, or BICMOS processes), the micromechanical components are fabricated using compatible micromachining processes that selectively etch away parts of the silicon wafer or add new structural layers to form the mechanical and electromechanical devices. MEMS promises to revolutionize nearly every product category by bringing together silicon-based microelectronics with micromachining technology, thereby, making possible the realization of complete systems-on-a-chip. Microelectromechanic systems will revolutionize the design of electronics products and enable the creation of entirely new product categories.   Through miniaturization, batch fabrication, and integration with electronics, this technology will enable the development of smart products by providing the required interface between the available computational power and physical world through the perception and control capabilities of micro devices or systems (e.g., microsensors and microactuators). Micromechanical devices and systems are inherently smaller, lighter and faster than their macroscopic counterparts, and in many cases are also more precise. MEMS devices are emerging as a product differentiators in numerous markets. MEMS technology is expected to have enormous opportunities in the commercial markets due to the low-cost, high functionality, and small size and weight of the devices. MEMS technology allows much more functionality to be placed within a given space than conventional technologies. A special class of MEMS is optical MEMS technology, also referred to as MOEMS (Micro Optical Mechanical Systems). MOEMS have become increasingly important in the development of many networks, telecommunications and optical systems. Potential MOEMS applications include optical data storage, optical sensors, bead mounted displays and projection systems. State-of-the-art devices include torsional mirrors, digital micromirror devices, laser scanners, optical shutters, microooptical switches, and micromachined corner cube reflectors. Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are MEMS scaled to