Sounding Out Cool MEMS Technology
What you’ll learn:
- The kinds of applications that can be addressed by piezoMEMS technology.
- How piezoMEMS devices can make sound as well as cool things.
- Some of xMEMS Labs’ piezoMEMS-based solutions.
Piezoelectric-based MEMS have been used for sensors, but they can also function as actuators to perform tasks such as moving air and fluids. The technology also makes it possible to implement a tiny speaker.
In this episode of Inside Electronics, I talked with Mike Housholder, xMEMS Labs’ Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. You can watch the demos in our video “Making MEMS Move Air and Fluids for Fun and Cooling.” And check out the article, “Keeping Chips Cool with PiezoMEMS Modules” to see how xMEMS’ XMC-2400 µCooling module can bring silicon-based, active cooling systems to devices like high-performance, compact M.2 NVMe solid-state drives.
SHOW NOTES
00:47 – PiezoMEMS
05:50 – MEMS Timeline
07:50 – Variety of MEMS Devices
11:14 – Device Specs
16:04 – xMEMS Applications
23:24 – Air Routing
25:16 – Future of MEMS
About the Author
William G. Wong
Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF
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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.
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Mike Housholder
VP Marketing and Business Development, xMEMS Labs
Mike Housholder, VP of Marketing and Business Development at xMEMS Labs, is a 24-year technology product/business executive who has built multiple $100M+ industry-first businesses from the ground-up in mobile systems, MEMS sensing, wireless networking and storage encompassing software/apps/APIs/algorithms/mobile OS, semiconductors and cloud.