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National MEMS Technology Roadmap published
15.06.2011
VTT and Aalto University have developed, in close co-operation with representatives from the Finnish MEMS industry, a national MEMS technology roadmap. The working group proposes three focus areas for the near future national research and development: 1) Next Generation 3D Integration of MEMS based Systems, 2) Functional Materials in MEMS based Systems, and 3) MEMS based Biomedical sensor/actuator systems.
The primary objective of the roadmap is to define focus areas of research and
development activities in various institutes and commercial organizations. The
work contributes to the efforts of maintaining the competitiveness and knowhow
of the emerging Finnish MEMS cluster at the highest level. This work is also
expected to strengthen the co-operation between the organizations in the
national MEMS cluster and to generate new long-term growth opportunities for
the cluster.
The roadmap will be updated at regular time
intervals. As a starting point in the autumn of 2010, Aalto University and VTT
carried out in collaboration with Culminatum a questionnaire survey, which
examined the views and opinions of people closely involved with the field in a
commercial or academic setting. The final form of the roadmap was formulated
in five workshops that were held during the spring of 2011.
The
survey revealed four primary R & D activity areas: new applications, new
materials, processing techniques, and packaging and integration.
Based
on the survey and the expert meetings, the roadmap working group came to
propose three focus areas for the near future national research and
development: Next Generation 3D Integration of MEMS based Systems, Functional
Materials in MEMS based Systems, and MEMS based Biomedical sensor/actuator
systems.
The roadmap was published in Eemeli
workshop organized by VTT on Tuesday 14th June 2011.
Questionnaire
results 2010
Additional information
Harri Kopola
Vice President, Microtechnologies and Electronics
+358 40 557 4867