What is MEMS?

This is a sidebar to the main story "Kodak rocks the packaging boat" which appears in the March 2008 issue of Packaging World Magazine, p. 48

MEMS is an acronym for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems. It’s the integration of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a common silicon substrate through microfabrication technology. Some observers predict that MEMS will revolutionize nearly every product category by bringing together silicon-based microelectronics with micromachining technology.

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