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Technology Stocks : MEMS - The Next Electronics Revolution?
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To: Dan Hamilton who wrote (100)1/2/2001 11:02:01 PM
From: Sword  Read Replies (1) of 121
 
Their competitors also use thin films, although they are deposited on silicon wafers. The use of metals in the MEMS switching structures is nothing new.

They don't describe the method for generating the torque. Likely it is done through electrostatic means since that requires little current and low power consumption. But the distances achievable are small. IMMI by contrast would use a nickel-iron permalloy with a micromachined coil to generate the magnetic field.

I'm skeptical of XRX's claims.

-Sword
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