MEMS for automotive and consumer electronics

Abstract

A car is skidding, and stabilizes itself without driver intervention; a laptop falls to the floor, and protects the hard drive by parking the read/write drive head automatically before impact; an airbag fires before the driver/occupant involved in an impending automotive crash impacts the steering wheel, thereby significantly reducing physical injury: - all systems involved are based exclusively on MEMS sensors. These crucial MEMS-sensor components of electronic control systems are making system reaction to human needs more intelligent, precise, and at much faster rates than humanly possible.