Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780521764834 |
Book Description | Offering a consistent, systematic approach to capacitive, piezoelectric and magnetic MEMS, from basic electromechanical transducers to high-level models for sensors and actuators, this comprehensive textbook equips graduate and senior-level undergraduate students with all the resources necessary to design and develop practical, system-level MEMS models. The concise yet thorough treatment of the underlying principles of electromechanical transduction provides a solid theoretical framework for this development, with each new topic related back to the core concepts. Repeated references to the shared commonalities of all MEMS encourage students to develop a systems-based design perspective. Extensive use is made of easy-to-interpret electrical and mechanical analogs, such as electrical circuits, electromechanical two-port models and the cascade paradigm. Each chapter features worked examples and numerous problems, all designed to test and extend students' understanding of the key principles. |
About the Author | Thomas B. Jones is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester. An experienced educator involved in teaching for over 40 years, his research has focused on electric field-mediated manipulation and transport of particles and liquids. He holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of Electromechanics of Particles (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and is a Fellow of the IEEE. Nenad G. Nenadic is a Research Associate Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His career, spanning both industry and academia, has involved him in many aspects of MEMS, including design and analysis, system-level simulation, test development and marketing. He holds a PhD from the University of Rochester, where he assisted in the teaching of graduate-level MEMS courses. |