Microelectronics : Wireless Technology and MEMS in the Developing Countries

Contents: Foreword. From the editor. Introduction. 1. Biomems and their applications/Vinod Kumar Jain. 2. Indian initiatives in MEMS and related technologies: a survey/S. Nirmala. 3. Development of MEMS based microfluidic devices at the Research Centre for Electronics and Telecommunications: Indonesian Institute of Sciences/Goib Wiranto. 4. Development of MEMS based microsensor devices at the Research Centre for Electronics and Telecommunications/Totok M.S. Soegandi. 5. Implant fabrication of single crystal silicon MEMS: a novel processing route/Ahmed Shuja. 6. Soft lithographic techniques and their applications in rapid fabrication of micro and nano structures in polymers and metals/S.C. Jain. 7. Current mode approach for low voltage analog designs in wireless applications/S.S. Jamuar. 8. RF System for an ion source/Luis Miguel Ledo. 9. Integrating RF Passives in digital CMOS/John Richard E. Hizon, Marc D. Rosales, Honee Lynn B. Tan, Louis P. Alarcon and Delfin Jay Sabido IX. 10. Microelectronics in Turkey/Gul Senturk. 11. Development and applications of microelectronics in Nigeria/Ashiru S. Daura. 12. Development of microelectronics and microsystems in Pakistan/Muhammad Asif. 13. Review of electronic industry in Sri Lanka/A.S. Pannila. 14. Status of microelectronics development in Tanzania: an overview of legislative frameworks/Emmanuel J. Kaale. 15. Status of microelectronics in Mauritius/Bharati Kisto. 16. Status of microelectronics in Egypt/Hamed Elsimary. 17. Leveraging bioinformatics for electronic sensor based biological micro-array chip design/Arif Anwar.

"The publication entitled Microelectronics : Wireless Technology and MEMS in the Developing Countries brought out by the Centre for Science and Technology of the non-aligned and other developing countries (NAM S and T Centre) is largely based on the presentations made during the 5th International Workshop on "Microelectronics : Wireless Technology and MEMS" held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during September 2005.

Microelectronics is the cornerstone of the information technologies that pervade virtually every aspect of contemporary life. It is difficult to imagine any field of science or technology that has had a more profound impact on the latter half of the 20 century than microelectronics. Microelectronics industry has been able to provide transistors, chips and products that are becoming smaller, faster, cheaper and better every year. As transistors become smaller, they become faster, more and more of such transistors can be packed on a chip, and thus chips are able to store and process more information. In microelectromechanical systems -- the microelectronics, micro-fabrication and micro-machining technologies, collectively known as MEMS - is being applied to biomedical applications and has become a new field of research unto itself, known as Bio--MEMS. The technology is originally based upon the same technology that has been used to make computer chips ever more powerful and less expensive.

This volume contains contributions from renowned experts and status reports on the subject from several developing countries, viz. Cuba, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Turkey. The compiled information will facilitate the developing countries in working out appropriate plans and strategies to exploit new technologies and research results for prosperity of the masses." (jacket)