Recent estimates for MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical System) products are forecasting growth of nearly twelve to fourteen times today's market, reaching 12-14 billion USD by the year 2000. While sensors (primarily pressure and acceleration) are the principal MEMS products today, no one product or application area is set to dominate the MEMS industry for the foreseeable future, with the MEMS market growing both in the currently dominant sensor sector and in the actuator-enabled sectors. Furthermore, because MEMS products will be embedded in larger, non-MEMS systems (e.g., automobiles, printers, displays, instruments, and controllers), they will enable new and improved systems with a projected market worth approaching 100 billion USD in the year 2000. The non-sensor market segments in fluid regulation and control, optical systems and mass data storage are projected to be about half of the total market by the year 2000. Particularly sensors with integrated signal processing, self-calibration and self-test (pressure sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and chemical sensors) will be made in the future. A substantial portion of the growth in the next few years will be in non-sensing, actuator-enabled applications. These applications include microoptomechanical systems, principally in displays, scanners and other optical switches; integrated fluidic systems, primarily in fuel-injections systems, ink-jet printheads, flow regulators; and mass data storage devices for both magnetic and non-magnetic recording techniques.
Making MEMS
Marktübersicht und Entwicklungstrend der mikroelektromechanischen Systeme sowie optimale Investitionsstrategie für die Herstellerfirmen
1996
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