IMAPS-UK Making MEMS Work, BIG Ideas for Small Devices Seminar – 27th January 2011

Thanks to everyone from MISEC who came along and presented posters at the IMAPS-UK Making MEMS Work seminar. The event was rescheduled after the 'snow chaos' affected many roads and airports making it unsafe to travel to the event. A presentation about the new Smart Microsystems flagship project with IeMRC, Heriot Watt University and the University of Edinburgh was given by Jon Terry on Marc's behalf (who was in China at the time) and was very well received.

There were many interesting talks given mostly by industrial speakers concerning the challenges faced by industry when trying to make MEMS work both from technical and business perspectives. The presentations covered topics from design and fabrication to packaging and test. The keynote speaker from Yole Developpement, Eric Mounier, finished the day with a very interesting presentation about MEMS manufacturing and packaging trends. He concluded that new approaches to manufacturing and packaging must result in smaller, low cost, high performance devices, so it seems we have our work cut-out for us!

Thanks to John Carr from Renishaw and Matt Brown from Inseto for organising the event on behalf of IMAPS-UK and to Rosanne Holburn and the team at iSLI for being such fantasic hosts. The event was a great success and we hope to offer more one day seminars in the future. The next IMAPS-UK and IMAPS Europe event is EMPC in September 2011, abstract deadline 8th Feb:

http://uk.imapseurope.org/index.php/event-calender/details/6-EMPC-2001