IC INDUSTRY AWARDS WINNER 2008
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Award: MEMS Foundry of the Year
Company: Silex Microsystems
Website: www.silexmicrosystems.com
Silex Microsystems
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ilex manufactures Micro add manufacturing capacity based on movement. Typical applications for pure
Electro Mechanical Systems customer needs and successes. MEMS structures are microneedles and
(MEMS) - each one tailored lab-on-chip products. Examples of
for specific customers and applications. Customer partnership relatively new and interesting areas
We are a leading dedicated MEMS Silex’ strategy is to develop strong and of development are RF MEMS, which
foundry that brings MEMS technology enduring customer relations and provide can send and transmit information, and
and capacity to device makers and other high level of service. Our customers’ fuel cells in which the MEMS chip
high-tech industries all over the world. success is our success. And customers generates its own power supply.
Our customers are found in the medical, from around the world already trust us
biotech, telecommunications and with their manufacturing needs. Today, Silex manufactures many 70
consumer electronics industries. We also unique MEMS products – each one
produce MEMS for the automotive and Silex has today a solid customer base tailored for specific customers and
other manufacturing industries. with more than 70 customers, which is applications. The company’s largest
considered large for the industry. Today, products, in terms of volume and value,
Mastering process and Silex manufactures MEMS products in are applications for handheld devices and
production technology volumes for ten of these customers. This lab-on-chips. Several of the MEMS
Silex strives to be one of the most broad customer base gives Silex the products that Silex manufactures contain
advanced and efficient foundries in the potential for a major increase in volume microsensors, which are used for example
MEMS industry working together with production. to measure pressure in the coronary
customers to give them the benefits and artery. With a cross sectional area of less
advantages offered by MEMS technology. Products than 0.1mm, they are among the world’s
We have extensive knowledge of There are three main categories of smallest. Silex also produces
MEMS processing and production MEMS: microneedles that are used to inject
technology. And this knowledge is the key ● Sensors medicines and to measure biological
to our ability to serve customers and ● Actuators signals, which can be used to diagnose
contribute to making their products ● Three-dimensional structures malignant melanoma.
successful.
Sensor based MEMS sense pressure, Silex manufactures optical switches for
There are considerable economies of scale speed, direction, position, temperature the telecommunications industry, where a
in MEMS production. The marginal cost and light, among other things, and are tiny chip can accommodate movable
of producing one more MEMS chip in an used in the automotive, life science and micromirror arrays that transmit signals
existing factory is low. consumer electronics industries. MEMS in a fiber optic network.
microphones also belong to this group,
We produce MEMS chips for large which are becoming more and more For other industries Silex also
volume customers and developing common in mobile phones. Actuators, for manufactures, gas sensors, micromirrors
customers having the potential to become example optical switches, RF switches for lithographic equipment and
volume customers. This has enabled us to and micro robots, work through micromotors for complex instruments.
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