Staff

Professor Andreas G. Andreou,  410-516-8361 andreou at jhu dot edu
Professor William N. Sharpe Jr., Latrobe Hall 126, 410-516-7101  sharpe at jhu dot edu
Ed Choi, Class Assistant,  410-516-0258 ; office Hours: Tuesday 4 - 5.30 P.M.
Dan Gianola,  Latrobe Hall 22;  office hours 2-3 Wednesday  gianola at jhu dot edu
 

Course Logistics

Course Ethics

Homework and pre-laboratory assignments: Developing the ability to work within a group is certainly one of the objectives for this course. However, homework assignments, pre-lab write-ups and examinations must be done on your own. Please read here what you are supposed to do alone and how much you are allowed to collaborate. During the laboratory sessions you must follow all proper procedures to avoid injuring yourself or anyone else that works with you.

Textbook

 

 

Microsystem Design

4th printing, 2002

Stephen Senturia

Kluwer Academic Publishers

ISBN 0-7923-7246-8

 

WWW book site at MIT

Checkout update page on errors and glitches in the book

Schedule and Syllabus

Week Lecture Topics Reading Assignment Laboratory Assignment
1 Introduction to MEMS Handout 1a (WNS)

Materials and processes Handout 1b (WNS)

Chapter 1

Chapters 2, 3

 
2 Yet another introduction to MEMS

Handout 2a , ( Movie ) (AGA)

Fields, matter and waves,  physics of transduction, piezoresistance.  Handout 2b (AGA)

Silicon and electrical conductivity 

Handout 2c (AGA)

Appendix B
Chapters 11.1, 11.2

 Chapters 18.1, 18.2.1, 18.2.2, 18.2.3
 

Review of  fields, waves and vector calculus from

Feynman's Physics Volume II (Chapters 1-4) or

Haus and Melcher online  book (Chapters 1-3)

http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/

MATLAB as part of Homework #2
3 Elasticity; mechanics Handout 3a (WNS)

Structures 

Handout 3b (WNS)

Chapter 8

 

Chapter 9

Beams characterization

Lab Beams

4 Review of complex exponentials

Handout 4a (AGA)

Lumped modeling with circuit elements

Handout 4b (AGA)

Energy conserving transducers

Handout 4c (WNS)

Chapter 5

Tilmans 1996/1997 paper I, paper II, errata

Choi and Connelly 1989 paper

 

 

Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Chapter 21.4.1, 21.5.1

Macromodeling and simulation with SPICE

Lab Macromodeling

5 CAD Tools (I) CAD principles and simulation.

Handout 5a (AGA)

MEMSCAP environment.

Handout 5b (AGA)

Senturia 1998 paper

Mukherjee et. al. 2000 paper

Schwarz and Schneider 2001 paper

Fedder 2003 paper

 

6 PolyMUMPs Technology Handout 6a   (WNS)

 

CAD Tools (II)

SUGAR  Handout 6b  (DG)

ANSYS, FEMLAB

Chapter 4

PolyMUMPS technology handout

 

 

SUGAR: Clark et. al. 2000 paper

and 2002  paper

 

 
7 Midterm Examination -in class- (WNS)

 

Heat Flow

Handout 7a (WNS)

 

 

Chapter 11, 12

MEMSPro Part I: schematic capture, and simulation (SEDIT/TSPICE)

Lab
Sedit/TSPICE

Files  (zip)

8  

SPRING BREAK

 
9 Fluids

Handout 8a (WNS)

Optoelectronic MEMS

DMD and GLV

Handout 8b (WNS)

Chapter 13 MEMSPro Part II: physical layout and verification (LEDIT/LVS)

Lab LEDIT/LVS

Files (zip)

10 Amplifiers and feedback

Handout 9a  (AGA)

Noise I

Handout 9b, Handout 9c (AGA)

 

Chapter 16

Haus 1960 paper

Netzer 1981 paper
 

 
11

Noise II

Handout 10a (AGA)

 

Electrical interfaces (I) Piezoresistive interface  Handout 10b (AGA)

Gabrielson 1993 paper

LaHaye et. al. 2004 paper

 

Chapter 18.1, 18.2.1, 18.2.2, 18.2.3, 18.2.4, 18.3.4, 18.3.5, 18.3.6, 18.3.7

MEMSPro Part III

silicon compilation

(UPI/LComp)

Lab UPI/LComp

Files (zip)

12

Optoelectronic interfaces;

Handout 11a  (AGA)

Silicon on Sapphire MEMS

Handout 11b (AGA)

Sasaki et. al. 1999 paper

Hall and Degertekin 2002 paper

 

Tejada et. al. 2004,

paper I, paper II

 
13 MEMS scaling laws

Handout 12a (AGA)

MEMS in Medicine and Biology (Prof. N. Thakor)

  MEMS project work

Final Project

Files (zip)

Due: May 14th

5 p.m.

Homework Assignments and Solutions

Homework #1: Due February 5th Solutions to Homework #1
Homework # 2: Due February 13th (Friday)

EMWaves.m, PolyMUMPs Technology (pdf)

Solutions to Homework #2
Homework # 3: Due February 19th Solutions to Homework #3 
Homework # 4: Due February 26th Solutions to Homework #4
  Solutions to Laboratory #2
Midterm Examination (Thursday March 11th) Solutions to Midterm
Homework # 5: Due April 2nd Solutions to Homework #5
Homework # 6: Due April 9th Solutions to Homework #6
   

All file archives and documents are password protected!

CAD Laboratory and Project Resources

Bibliography

1. The Feynmann Lectures On Physics, (Volume I, Volume II, Volume III), R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton and M. Sands, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA, 1964.

2. Fundamentals of Microfabrication : The Science of Miniaturization, Marc J. Madou, CRC Press, 2nd edition, 2002.

3. MEMS and Microsystems: Design and Manufacture, Tai-Ran Hsu,  McGraw-Hill, 2002.

4. Micromachined Transducers Sourcebook,  Gregory T. A. Kovacs, WCB, 1998.

5. An Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems Engineering, Nadim Maluf, Artech House, 2000.

6. Fundamentals of Microsystems Packaging, Rao R. Tummala, McGraw-Hill, 2001.

7. Micromechanics and MEMS: Classic and Seminal Papers to 1990, W.S. Trimmer (edited), IEEE press, 1991.

8. Silicon as Mechanical Material , K. E. Petersen, Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 420-457, May 1982 (pdf).

9. Macromodeling with SPICE, J.A. Connelly and P. Choi, Prentice Hall, 1992.

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