The book is focused on the use of functional oxide and nitride films to enlarge the application range of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), including micro-sensors, micro-actuators, transducers, and electronic components for microwaves and optical communications systems. Applications, emerging applications, fabrication technology and functioning issues are presented and discussed. The book covers the following topics:
Part A: Applications and devices with electroceramic-based MEMS:
Chemical microsensors
Microactuators based on thin films
Micromachined ultrasonic transducers
Thick-film piezoelectric and magnetostrictive devices
Pyroelectric microsystems
RF bulk acoustic wave resonators and filters
High frequency tunable devices
MEMS for optical functionality
Part B: Materials, fabrication technology, and functionality:
Ceramic thick films for MEMS
Piezoelectric thin films for MEMS
Materials and technology in thin films for tunable high frequency devices
Permittivity, tunability and loss in ferroelectrics for reconfigurable high frequency electronics
Microfabrication of piezoelectric MEMS
Nano patterning methods for electroceramics
Soft lithography emerging techniques
The book is addressed to engineers, scientists and researchers of various disciplines, device engineers, materials engineers, chemists, physicists and microtechnologists who are working and/or interested in this fast growing and highly promising field.
The publication of this book follows a Special Issue on electroceramic-based MEMS that was published in the Journal of Electroceramics at the beginning of 2004. The ten invited papers of that special issue were adapted by the authors into chapters of the present book and five additional chapters were added.