MEMs is Dead; Long Live NEMS?

February 24, 2008

Over the weekend, an email arrived touting a workshop to be held at DATE ’08 titled Heterogeneous System Integration: from MEMS to NEMS. “What’s NEMS?” I thought. It stands for nano-electro-mechanical-systems. Welcome to the world of nano-everything. I gather that the idea is that MEMs devices often require hybrid packaging to accommodate various MEMS, analog, and digital die. NEMS presumably puts it all on one die, which will reduce cost, power, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Posted by Steve Leibson on February 24, 2008 | Comments (4)

December 30, 2008

In response to: MEMs is Dead; Long Live NEMS?
AL commented:

fems will be used in fembots?

February 26, 2008

In response to: MEMs is Dead; Long Live NEMS?
ir commented:

dsa

February 25, 2008

In response to: MEMs is Dead; Long Live NEMS?
Steve Leibson commented:

Pems were little fasteners back when I designed hardware. I can't recall any fems at all while going to college :-)

February 25, 2008

In response to: MEMs is Dead; Long Live NEMS?
Dave J commented:

Certain industries require occasional name "refreshes" to help keep VC's excited and thus more easily separate them from their money. In the solar industry, everything went nano, and the funding process has gone quite well, thank-you-very-much. Personally, I'm holding out for future-gen stuff: pEMS and maybe even fEMS. :)

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