Nano writing

A picture of what I do in my free time. Those who are wondering , "whats the big deal ?", do see the scale bar.

By the way, this is not my best result.

What is MEMS ?

For all those who are wondering about what we do and why we do...this is an interesting article to start with:

http://www.semiconductor.net/article/CA6571814.html?nid=3572

What are POEMS, technically?

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.”