This one is a bit technical, but not difficult. I posted this piece to create some awareness about MEMS and related fields, as I have been referring to them in my earlier posts. This is also a reason for my love for POEMS. How? You will see once you read this paragraph:
“Miniaturization of optical components and their integration with the existing micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) has emerged as a new discipline in the last 2 decades, and is progressively making its way towards commercialization in a number of fields. It offers significant possibilities for achieving the micro-opto-electro-mechanical system (MOEMS) functionality necessary to meet the performance needs of a number of emerging applications, such as, imaging, sensing, communications, and control. Realization of these applications requires the development of a set of microoptical components and processes suitable for integration with MEMS and supporting microelectronics. The resulting MEMS “optical toolbox” will provide the standard building blocks with which photonic functions can be achieved within MOEMS. However, the traditional materials used for MEMS fabrication (silicon and derived compounds) can not provide high quality optical components. Apparently much better results can be obtained by using polymers, which have shown promising results for the fabrication of converging lenses, creating a whole new field of polymer based miniaturised optical systems as polymer-opto-electro-mechnical systems or POEMS.”
“Miniaturization of optical components and their integration with the existing micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) has emerged as a new discipline in the last 2 decades, and is progressively making its way towards commercialization in a number of fields. It offers significant possibilities for achieving the micro-opto-electro-mechanical system (MOEMS) functionality necessary to meet the performance needs of a number of emerging applications, such as, imaging, sensing, communications, and control. Realization of these applications requires the development of a set of microoptical components and processes suitable for integration with MEMS and supporting microelectronics. The resulting MEMS “optical toolbox” will provide the standard building blocks with which photonic functions can be achieved within MOEMS. However, the traditional materials used for MEMS fabrication (silicon and derived compounds) can not provide high quality optical components. Apparently much better results can be obtained by using polymers, which have shown promising results for the fabrication of converging lenses, creating a whole new field of polymer based miniaturised optical systems as polymer-opto-electro-mechnical systems or POEMS.”
5 comments:
Oh no...no technical stuff please! ;)
Thought of highlighting the unusual name connection between art and science
Are you sure (Literature) people will be interested in such POEMS ;) ? other way, Can you put your original POEMS in some proposals? :D
By the way, good to see some connection between two entirely different POEMS! :))
How about writing one of my poem on a polymer substrate with e-beam lithography ? The whole peom will not take more than 10 micrometer by 10 micrometer of space...he he he...Am i going nuts ?
:D :D
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