Background courses:

Introduction to MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems)

Semiconductor Device Physics, IC Design or Fabrication

Engineering Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Fluid Mechanics



Grade: Homework: 30%, Midterm: 30%, Final exam.: 20%, Final presentation: 20%



TAs: TBA



Tentative Outline for Micro System Design:

1. Scope of the Micro System Design, the current status of Micro System Technology

2. Brief Review of MEMS technology I - Scaling law (hw#1)

3. Brief Review of MEMS technology III- lithography and IC process

4. Brief Review of MEMS technology II- Bulk micromachining (hw#2)

5. Brief Review of MEMS technology IV- Surface micromachining, and others.

6. Introduction and hand-on practice of MEMS design software-LEIDT (hw#3) ( final project team

formation)

7. Midterm#1

8. IC and MEMS foundry I.-MOSIS

9. Coventerware (11/13, Monday, 高速電腦中心, High Speed Computer Center)

10.Design example I: IC process and Micro accelerometer design using MOSIS process

(hw#4)

11. Midterm #2

12. IC and MEMS foundry II.- Cronos

13. Design example II: Micro comb-drive motor design using MUMPS process (hw#5)

14. Thermal actuator design

15. Final Exam.

16. Final presentation







Textbooks:

1. Micro System Design Class Notes, Fan-Gang Tseng, NTHU book store, or

http://oz.nthu.edu.tw/~d9511818/, 2016

2. CMOS Layout Design-Using L-EDIT, Uyemura, 楊忠煌譯, 高立出版社, 1998.

3. Microsystem Design, Stephen D. Senturia, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,

2000.



References:

Semiconductor Sensors, S.M. Sze, Wiley Inter. Science, 1994

Micromachines, a new era in mechanical engineering, Iwao Fujimasa, Oxford Science

Publication, 1996.

Micro Mechanics and MEMS, classic and seminar papers to 1990, William S. Trimmer,

IEEE press, 1997.

On Size and Life, T. A. McMahon and J. T. Bonner, Scientific American Library, 1983.

Fundamentals of Microfabrication, Marc Madou, CRC Press, 1997.

Micromachined Transducers source book, Gregory T.A. Kovacs, McGraw Hill, 1998