Traditional spectrometers are bulky and expensive. MEMS enables both miniaturization and cuts in production costs, creating opportunities for totally new applications. Even single-chip spectrometers can be fabricated.
Contract manufacturing of MEMS solutions
Microelectromechanical systems or MEMS are based on components with tiny moveable structures. It is astonishing how widely MEMS can be applied in various fields. It is already in use for example in vehicles, printers, projectors, mobile terminals, cameras, timing devices, safety and security systems, and healthcare applications.
An integrated circuit manufacturing line was developed at VTT in the 1980s. The process line has since been used for fabrication of MEMS, integrated passive circuits and discrete radio-frequency components, photonic, and microfluidic devices.