Introduction

MTLab belongs to the “MEMS world”, quite different from that of ICs Silicon Technology. While ICs world is under pressure to follow the Moore’s law -- the continuous shrinking down of the minimum feature of the technology, accounts for the rapid equipment obsolescence and the astonishing increase of plant costs -- MEMS fabrication has opened new fields for technological development, where the effort is focused on smart exploitation of stabilized technological capability, an approached named “More than Moore”. In this way both, equipments and basic processes blocks have longer operating lifetime with a beneficial impact on the related costs of investments (for instance, dismissed equipments from ICs plants are feeding a flourishing market of refurbished equipments for MEMS).

Due to the growing application of MEMS devices coupled with the need to develop a multidisciplinary scientific and technological effort, a sparkling research activity is going on, driving innovation in important markets such as automotive, ambient assisted living and bio-applications. MTLab is well equipped for conducting customised MEMS and Microtechnologies development and, more generally speaking, is a flexible structure to develop “customised technologies”.

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