NEW APPLICATION SPACES IN AUTOMOTIVE, INDUSTRIAL & MEDICAL SEGMENTS REQUIRING IMMUTABLE MEMS/SENSORS
ABSTRACT
Safety applications within the automotive market, like airbag and braking systems, have driven MEMS-based sensor technology to state-of-the-art quality and reliability among semiconductor components. Indeed, the long-term stability of these sensors has advanced toward being immutable – i.e., unchanging through the 15-20 year lifetime requirements. For automotive safety applications, these systems developed over the years in response of government mandates. Now, this advanced reliability capability can be enabling.
This presentation will provide three examples of areas beyond traditional automotive safety where the MEMS & Sensor industry needs to apply this high quality and reliability for applications proactively ahead of mandates to mitigate emerging business risks:
1) Automotive – advances in electric vehicles has the promise of minimizing petrochemical-induced climate change; however, lithium-ion batteries come with their own environmental risks that need monitoring by advanced high-reliability sensor-enabled systems to manage battery health,
2) Industrial – unforeseen maintenance has purportedly cost global industry billions of dollars, yet MEMS-based, high-reliability sensors can streamline this process toward true predictive maintenance, thus minimizing business impact, and
3) Medical – an aging population comes with significant health risks that can be tempered with monitoring of physical activity outside of the doctor’s office or hospital. MEMS-based, high-reliability physical monitors can provide support here. In each of these cases, high-precision / accuracy, high-quality, and high-reliability MEMS-based sensors are the cornerstone to creating systems to enable solutions for these emerging business risks.
BIOGRAPHY
Dave has been active in the MEMS/MST community by participating in technical committees for the Transducers, Hilton Head, MEMS and IMAPS conferences. He was the Technical/General Program Chair for the Hilton Head 2010/2012 Workshops, respectively. He has published more than 50 conference papers, 10 refereed journal papers, 12 issued patents in the MEMS/MST field, and is an IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Monk is currently the treasurer of the Transducers Research Foundation and a past Governing Council chair for the SEMI: MEMS & Sensor Industry Group (MSIG).