Upcoming Webinars

MEMS Executive Congress Europe Preview Thursday, February 16, 2012 | 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT

Presented by Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group

Join MIG's managing director, Karen Lightman, as she shares with you what to expect at the very first European installment of MEMS Executive Congress, March 20, 2012.

M2M Forum Webinar MEMS Technology Development - An Overview of a MEMS Product Development Life Cycle Template Thursday, February 23 | 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT

Presented by Tina Lamers, Director of Marketing & Lead Engineer, Avago Technologies and Valerie Marty, MEMS Integration, HP
Hosted by Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group

 

Past Webinars

Presented by Simone Severi, Team Leader, MEMS Integration Group, imec

Moderated by Eric Pabo, Business Development Manager - MEMS, EV Group
Hosted by Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group

Imec has  developed a CMOS compatible set of modules for providing additional functionality of basic MEMS devices using a SiGe thin film wafer level packaging platform. On this webinar, Simone Severi, Team Leader of the MEMS integration group at imec will give an overview of SiGe MEMS technology using an IC standard fabrication toolset for monolithic integration on CMOS. He’ll give examples of the product development cycle of successful devices manufactured at imec to demonstrate the advantages of the technology and educate participants on the special considerations required for test, reliability, and reducing cost.

Concurrent Design to Achieve High Performance and Low Cost: Case Study of a MEMS Automotive Pressure Sensor Design Original Webinar Date: Tuesday, December 13 Members, click here for the slides.

Presented by David DiPaola, Managing Director, DiPaola Consulting
Moderated by Rob O'Reilly, Senior Member Technical Staff, Analog Devices and Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group

David DiPaola of DiPaola consulting will illustrate the importance of concurrent design in achieving high performance, yet low cost MEMS integration. Through a case study focused on automotive pressure sensor design, he’ll demonstrate how to overcome challenging customer-driven requirements.

The case study presented includes:

• MEMS Device: Unique sensor requirement of pressure range in excess of 1 MPa with very limited packaging space.
• Challenge: Severe mechanical mounting conditions of the sensor in the application.  Mounting conditions caused significant sensor error due to parasitic strain in the piezoresistors from mechanical coupling when mounted.  Since multiple MEMS sense elements were used in this product, adding cost to resolve this issue was not an option.
• Solution: Listen to the replay to find out!

Presented by: Michael Müller, Deputy Head of Department Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS)
Co-hosted  and Moderated by: Steve Breit, Vice President, Engineering, Coventor

Coventor and Fraunhofer IPMS discuss "MEMS Law" and ways that MEMS foundries and MEMS device manufacturers are overcoming the described lack of standardization.

Presented by Mehran Mehregany, Director, Case School of Engineering - San Diego

Polytec will present several characterization studies that have successfully applied Micro System Analyzer (MSA) technology using optical characterization of MEMS. Currently, this technology is widely used in the MEMS research community. Polytec will enlighten attendees about how to apply MSA technology for commercial applications that will improve a product design’s performance. The MSA features many benefits including measuring out-of-plane motion with resolution down to picometers and bandwidth out to MHz. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn how to take your MEMS designs to the next level!

Sarah Boisvert, Co-Founder of Potomac Photonics, will share her knowledge through case studies and personal experiences about helping your company reduce the time to market of your MEMS products.

The following archived webinars slides can be found in the Document Library. Click the hyperlink for the replay.

• MEMS Executive Congress 2011 Preview - Presented by Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group
• A Global Analysis of the Current MEMS Market - Presented by Jérémie Bouchaud, Director and Principal Analyst, MEMS, at iSuppli.
• Standards & Collaboration: Lessons Learned from the SEMATECH Model - Presented by Dr. Richard Van Atta (one of the leading experts on SEMATECH)
• MEMS Marketing: Outbound vs Inbound Marketing - beyond the 4 P’s - Presented by David Almoslino, Director of marketing and communications of InvenSense
• How to Turn Your Technology Company into a Market-Driven Profit Machine - Presented by Sarah Boisvert, Co-founder of Potomac Photonics, Inc.
• Part 3: Working with a MEMS Foundry - Ensuring Successful Delivery of MEMS Products from a MEMS Foundry - Featuring Midwest MicroDevices, Nanoshift, Semefab, and Touch Micro-system Technology (TMT)
• Part 2: Working Successfully with a MEMS Foundry Webinar - Featuring Innovative Micro Technology (IMT), MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange, Silex Microsystems, and Tronics MEMS
• Working with a MEMS Foundry | Part 1: How to Select a Foundry Partner - Featuring AM Fitzgerald and Associates, MEMSCAP, Micralyne, and Teledyne DALSA
• MEMS Marketing 101: Why Products Beat Technologies in All Markets - Presented by Sarah Boisvert
• MEMS Manufacturing Evolution : What Will Change? - Presented by Dr Eric Mounier, Project Manager, Yole Développement
• Consumer MEMS: The Sky is the Limit - Presented by Jérémie Bouchaud - Director & Principal Analyst, MEMS, iSuppli
• MIG Web site launch webinar
• MEMS Executive Congress Recap Webinar
• Apple iPhone 4 Smart Phone - Teardown to the Silicon
• The MEMS Industry and Markets: An Outsider’s View
• User Innovation Communities: the Key to 21st Century R & D, Production & Marketing Success
• New Emerging Applications in MEMS: Building the Growth of Markets for the Next 10 Years
• Consumer MEMS - Downturn? What Downturn?
• Financial Performance and Valuation of MEMS Companies

 Other MEMS Industry Technical Webinars

Enabling Next Generation Motion Solutions for Consumer Electronics, Movea and Yole Développement, December 2010
Modeling and Simulation Tools in MEMS Design, Intellisense Software, April 2011
MEMS Vacuum Packaging, ISSYS, April 2011
Taming Extreme Topography for High-Aspect-Ratio Structures for Microelectronics Applications, Brewer Science, April 2011
Revolution in consumer motion sensors, Yole Développement, May 2011
Overview of Flip Chip Technologies, Applications and Market, Yole Développement, June 2011
Thin Wafer Handling – Overcoming the Achilles' Heel of Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing, Brewer Science, July 2011
Thin Wafer Handling and Processing, Yole Développement, October 2011
 

Past Courses

Insider's Guide to Business Strategy for the MEMS Industry - 2009 and MEMS Business and Management - 2008

Instructors
Alissa Fitzgerald, Principal and Founder, AM Fitzgerald and Associates
Jim Knutti, President and CEO, Acuity Incorporated

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