College of Chemistry Course Guide

MECHE 119 - Introductions to MEMS (Microelectomechanical Systems) (3 Units)

(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)

Course Overview

Summary

Fundamentals of microelectromechanical systems including design, fabrication of microstructures; surface-micromachining, bulk-micromachining, LIGA, and other micro machining processes; fabrication principles of integrated circuit device and their applications for making MEMS devices; high-aspect-ratio microstructures; scaling issues in the micro scale (heat transfer, fluid mechanics and solid mechanics); device design, analysis, and mask layout.

Prerequisites

EE 16A or EE 40, and Physics 7B

Fall only

Workload

Time Commitment

3 hours of lecture per week.




UC Berkeley Course Guide