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MANCEF Quarterly Newsletter
| Fourth Quarter 2003, Vol. 1 |
November 1, 2003 |
Executive Board
President
Roger Grace
Roger Grace Associates rgrace@mancef.org
President Elect
Kees Eijkel
University of Twente keijkel@mancef.org
VP Americas
Carol Steele
University of South Florida csteele@mancef.org
VP Europe
David Tolfree Technopreneur Ltd dtolfree@mancef.org
VP Asia/Pacific
Jane Niall
IIRD - Victoria jniall@mancef.org
Founding Past President
Bob Warrington
Michigan Technological University rwarrington@mancef.org
Founding Past President
Steve Walsh
University of New Mexico swalsh@mancef.org
Treasurer
Bill Higdon bhigdon@mancef.org
Secretary
James Wylde
Bookham Technology jwylde@mancef.org
Member
Joe Brown
Suss Microtec jbrown@mancef.org
Member
Job Elders
C2V
jelders@mancef.org
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MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT, ROGER GRACE
Happy Fall or Happy Spring depending upon where
you live in the world. If you are a new member, I would like to
welcome you to our organization and thank you for your support
of COMS 2003. To our ongoing members, it is nice to have you with
us and thank you for your support.
We recently held a successful Executive Board
election. Congratulations to Kees Eijkel (Mesa +, The Netherlands),
the new President Elect, who will take office in September 2004.
Our other newly elected Executive Board members are Joe Brown
(Suss Microtec, USA) and Job Elders (C2V, The Netherlands). I
would like to thank Election Committee Chair David Tolfree and
the election committee for a job well done.
Many MANCEF members have just returned from
a hugely successful COMS 2003 in Amsterdam. The Sept. 8-11 event
had over 260 attendees and over 100 speakers. I'd like to thank
Henne Von Heeren, Job Elders, and Kees Eijkel along with their
great staff in creating such a tremendous event for our attendees.
EVGroup, STS, Zyvex, and Sandia National Labs
sponsored the COMS 2003 Awards, which was the highlight of the
Monday evening gala dinner. MANCEF's Charter Members gave awards
to contributors of the best conference papers. We also announced
the next location for COMS 2004: Edmonton, Canada. Leigh Hill
of NanoMEMS Edmonton and team gave us a presentation on the area,
the city, and the conference center. We left COMS2003 really excited
for COMS2004. Contact Carol Steele (csteele@marine.usf.edu)
if you are interested in serving on any COMS2004 organizing committees.
Following the Amsterdam event, ten MANCEF speakers
attended the "First MEMS in Mexico" Conference held
in Puerto Vallarta co-sponsored by the U.S.-Mexico Foundation
for Science. MANCEF members addressed the topic of international
cooperation for Mexico's market entry into MEMS. Look for other
upcoming Micro-Nano conferences are scheduled for Massachusetts,
London, and Melbourne.
Over the past year, MANCEF has grown in stature
and raised awareness in the industry. The many contributions from
the Executive, General, and Advisory Boards have created a commanding
position as the leading educational organization in the world
for the commercialization of Micro and Nanotechnology. It is with
the generous contributions of time and talent of all of the dedicated
people and to you, our membership, that I am so grateful. I look
forward to another challenging, and even more successful, coming
twelve months. |
Congratulations
COMS Awardees!
EV
Group Erich Thallner Pioneer in Microsystems Technology Award:
Johannes Herrnsdorf HLPlanar
Zyvex
Jim van Ehr Nanotechnology Commercialization Excellence Award:
Matthias Kautt & Peter Bley Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe
Surface
Technology Systems Microsystems Commercialization Award:
Paul Atherton NanoVentures
University
of Twente & University of New Mexico Micro & Nano Commercialization
Education Award: Kathryn Hanselmann
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories
Policy & Programs for Government-University-Industry Partnership
Award:
Peter Jonson Australian Institute for Commercialisation |
COMS2003 Summary
David Tolfree and Kees Eijkel
The Eighth MANCEF conference on the Commercialization
of Micro and Nanosystems (COMS 2003) was held at the Grand Hotel
Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam on 8-11 September 2003. 262 delegates
attended, including 37 Exhibitors. Rein Bemer, the Dutch Government's
Director General for Innovation, gave the opening welcome. Roger
Grace, the President of MANCEF added his welcome to delegates
and gave an historical background to the COMS series of conferences
and the significant part they have played in furthering the commercialization
of micro-nanotechnology.
The conference programme was designed to be consistent
with MANCEF's objectives for COMS conferences, following the lessons
learned from previous conferences. The conference was structured
around three plenary sessions, followed by breakout sessions which
allowed over 100 speakers to address 20 subject areas. Keynote
speakers from the US, Dutch, and UK Governments and from leading
companies in the micro-nano field led the first plenary session.
Roel Pieper, former board member of Philips Electronics and CEO
of Favonius Ventures addressed the changing paradigms in business
today, reshaping the role of individuals and entrepreneurs. Paul
Atherton of Nanoventures gave well-received conclusions to the
session with a perspective on the MEMS/MST industry and the status
of two public companies.
The conference produced a stimulating environment for
quality discussion and debate on the important issues in the MEMS
industry. Through networking, delegates had the opportunity to
meet and interact. Over the three and half days, many useful contacts
were made and business relationships seeded.
There was a very positive feedback from delegates. Feedback
forms were collected and are being analyzed. Equally important
was the verbal comments and buzz. There were some very good suggestions
for improvements, but genuine satisfaction carried the day. We'd
like any additional comments from 2003 delegates to help MANCEF
plan future conferences. These and others will be included in
a more detailed report on the conference currently being compiled.
An announcement was made at the conference dinner that COMS2004
will be located in Edmonton in Canada. This will mark the first
ten years of the COMS conferences started in Banff in 1994, thus
completing a decade of success. |
MANCEF Captures Prestigious
Beacon Award for COMS 2002 Promotional Efforts
In a recent ceremony hosted by the Business
Marketing Association's Silicon Valley Chapter, MANCEF was awarded
a first place (Gold Prize) in its annual Beacon Award competition
for its entry describing the promotional program for COMS 2002.
The award was received on behalf of MANCEF by Gene Burk (Dalsa)
and a member of the MANCEF Advisory Board. The COMS 2002 Promotion
Committee, chaired by Roger Grace (Roger Grace Associates) , and
the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) were acknowledged
for their efforts in planning, developing and executing an integrated
marketing communications program to support participation in the
most successful COMS 2002 program held in Ypsilanti Michigan in
early September 2002.
The Beacon Awards are held annually
and are considered one of the most prestigious regional award
competitions sponsored by the International Business Marketing
Association. The award competition is open to all business-to-business
marketers worldwide. The awards acknowledge excellence in marketing
communications in over 20 categories including print media advertising,
annual reports, brochures, web sites, and public relations. MANCEF
captured a first place award in the area of special events.
The MANCEF entry described the broad
and multi-faceted program undertaken in the 12 month campaign
developed and executed by the COMS 2002 Promotion Committee and
MEDC, including communications elements of print media advertising
donated to COMS 2002 by its many media sponsors, the creation
of two ads, the creation, execution and mailing of a direct mail
piece, website, and email blast newsletters spearheaded by Steve
Walsh and his University of New Mexico students.
The award was based on the ability to
successfully integrate all elements of a promotion campaign to
meet or achieve the program objectives. Questionnaires submitted
by the COMS attendees acknowledged the effectiveness of the integrated
MARCOM program in influencing their decision to attend the COMS
2002.
Sincerest thanks to all of the MANCEF
volunteers, who participated in the development and execution
of the program, especially MEDC and Mahendra Ramsinghani, Tim
Daman and Brent Case and their MEDC team for all of their efforts
to make the COMS 2002 promotional campaign so successful. It was
literally an award winning program!
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Promoted Asian Events:
Commercialisation of
Small Technologies in the Asia Pacific
The Australian Institute for Commercialisation
and the Victorian Government's Commercialise 2003 Series will
host a regional commercialization workshop on Monday December
8th in Melbourne, Australia. Keynote speakers are Sir Alec Broers,
President, Royal Academy of Engineers, Emeritus Vice Chancellor
of the University of Cambridge, UK, and Dr Jih Chang Yang, Executive
Vice President, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan.
International
Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing 2004
The International Neural Network Society
and The Institute of Smart Materials, Structures, and Systems
will convene this cross-disciplinary event in Chennai, India between
January 4-7, 2004 integrating Micro and Nano contributions to
sensor, machine intelligence, biomimetic, and biomedical applications.
See www.mancef.org/events.htm
for more information on both of these events.
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Conference Summaries
From Banff, AB, Canada – James Wylde
The International Conference
on MEMS, Nano, and Smart Systems (ICMENS) was held 20-23 Jul 2003
in the beautiful town of Banff, Alberta, Canada in the Canadian
Rockies. Following AIRDS in Albuquerque, NM in May 2003, MANCEF
continues its support of NAFTA countries by co-sponsoring the
event with i-Core, Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology,
MicroNET, and the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute. The
conference was organized jointly by the University of Alberta
and the University of Calgary.
The conference attracted over
200 people from around the world and offered over 80 presentations
by Micro and nanotechnology leaders. Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Hiro Akinago,
Mark Johnson, and Henry Baltes delivered keynote addresses. Steve
Walsh, Founding Past President of MANCEF, offered his thoughts
on micro and nanotechnology roadmapping with his keynote address:
Commercialization of Nano Technologies, a Fantastic Voyage.
The MANCEF supported session on
micro and nano commercialization attracted four top-notch speakers:
- Keith Ritala from the Washington
Technical Center gave his thoughts on the challenges met and
overcome when successfully operating an open-access micro fabrication
facility
- Jim Aberson from Colibrys SA gave
an excellent presentation on his companies' unique post-fabrication
techniques that have enabled the successful commercialization
of telecom MEMS
- Xiaoyang Zhu gave an interesting
presentation that described his successful commercialization
of a university research project with MicroSurfaces Inc.
- Helge Luesenbrink from EV Group described
how his company is making the leap to nano technology using
the toolsets and methods available from their work on micro
technology
The conference highlighted the position
of Canada and the Province of Alberta as a leader in the successful
commercialization of micro and nano technology with organizations
such as Micralyne, the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation,
and the newly formed National Institute for Nano Technology (NINT).
MANCEF thanks everyone who stopped by the MANCEF booth. We look
forward to seeing everyone again next year.
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| Conference Summaries
From Ottawa, ON, Canada – James Wylde
MANCEF was proud to sponsor the 3rd
Canadian Workshop on MEMS (CWMEMS) held 22 Aug 2003 at the historic
Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, ON, Canada. The conference was
held in conjunction with The Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
(CMC) and sponsored by DALSA Semiconductor, Anritsu, NanoMEMS
Edmonton, Coventor, BigBangWidth, EVG, Suss Microtec, Corning
Intellisense, and ROI Engineering. The conference attracted over
100 people from the Canadian and international small tech communities
and allowed over 50 students from the Canadian MEMS and nano community
to showcase their work. MANCEF would like to congratulate Lisa
Hunt, an MASc candidate in Dr. Ted Hubbard's group at Dalhousie
University, for winning the BigBangWidth award for demonstrating
the most novel and industrially relevant research results in MEMS
and Microfluidics for her poster: Investigation of Micromachined
Scratch Drive Actuators. The plenary featured four presentations
on:
- Karen Kaler from the University of
Calgary presented his groups work on micro and nano motion in
fluidics using applied electric fields.
- Bob Sulouff from Analog Devices presented
his thoughts on the successful commercialization of integrated
MEMS accelerometers and gyros.
- Gabriel Rabiez from the University
of Michigan summarized his groups activities on RF MEMS and
advanced packaging techniques.
- Paul Hagelin from NanoGEAR described
how a small start-up optical switch manufacturer worked to overcome
the challenges in a telecom downturn.
The panel discussion featured the plenary
speakers as well as Peter Grutter from McGill University in Montréal
and Luc Oullet from DALSA Semiconductor who discussed the Commercialization
of MEMS and Nanotechnology Through Integration. Giving their thoughts
and fielding questions from the audience, the salient conclusions
of the panel include:
- Integration will be an important
component of successful commercialization of small tech and
is a mandatory component of nano-science.
- Integration, while important, is
not necessary and the added costs of development must be recoverable
with high volume, low cost, products in favour of hybrid integration
and co-packaging multi chip modules.
- To make integration successful, it
will be necessary to assemble cross disciplinary teams of mechanical
engineers, electrical engineers, chemists, physicists, etc.
- Universities can foster this cross
disciplinary activity but must be careful to maintain excellence
in one candidate rather than dilute the value of an education.
- Standardization in design tools and
fabrication processes will be important to enable commercialized,
integrated MEMS.
Please see the CWMEMS
website for more information. |
Conference
Summaries
From San Francisco/San Jose – Roger Grace and Scott Bryant
MANCEF President Roger Grace (Roger Grace Associates),
MANCEF Executive Board Member Joe Brown (Suss Microtec), and Ellen
McDevitt (MEMS Industry Group) co-chaired an all-day MEMS technical
session during the annual SEMICON West show at San Francisco's
Moscone Center on July 16. Over 75 attendees participated in the
MEMS workshop from both the semiconductor, as well as the MEMS
areas.
Nine industry acknowledged experts gave presentations
on the theme "MEMS: Lessons Learned from the Semiconductor
Industry". The theme was selected in order to aid companies,
who are looking to diversify their semiconductor product portfolios
and considering introducing MEMS products by comparing and contrasting
the pathways and obstacles of these overlapping technologies.
In addition to the presentations, a six-person panel discussion
made up of equipment and industry supplier representatives shared
their experiences on the topic. Twenty-four MEMS-specific exhibits
ran simultaneously with the technical session in the MEMS Pavilion
area, but almost 90 SEMICON West exhibitors listed themselves
as working in the MEMS arena.
The MEMS session featured a powerhouse of speakers from
leading materials, equipment and device companies. Speakers included
Stan Myers, SEMI President, Al Pisano of UC Berkeley, and representatives
from companies, who have significant businesses in both the semiconductor
and MEMS industries including Motorola, IBM, Hewlett Packard,
and Veeco. Especially memorable was the panel on "Lessons
Learned" moderated by Roger Grace. Among the panelists were
MANCEF Board members Andrew McQuarrie (Surface Technology Systems)
and Peter Podesser (EV Group), who expressed views on entry strategies
for MEMS markets ranging to the ongoing debate over standards
setting and the tradeoffs to MEMS functional integration.
MANCEF members will be directed how to access these proceedings
under a separate mailing.
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Conference Summaries
From Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
– Scott Bryant and Roger Grace
Following successful events
in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Juarez, Mexico earlier this summer,
MANCEF has had the great pleasure to collaborate with the US-Mexico
Foundation for Science to hold the First MEMS Meeting Mexico 2003
in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The meeting
follows on from the Annual Ibero American Research and Development
Summit (Albuquerque, USA - May 2003) and the Bi-national Workshop
on Microsystems Packaging Technology (Juarez, Mexico – July
2003). Mr. Guillermo Fernandez,
Executive Director of the US-Mexican Foundation for Science, Dr.
Jose Mireles of the Autonomous University of Juarez, Dr. Frank
Lewis of the University of Texas at Arlington, and Dr. Steven
Walsh of the University of New Mexico were the key organizers
of this very successful event.
Ten MANCEF members addressed
over 80 Mexican scientists, engineers, university professors and
economic development leaders on the topic of MEMS. The program
of 28 speakers over the all day Friday and Saturday venue provided
attendees with a condensed view on the worldwide MEMS market and
Mexico's intention to find areas of opportunity to enter the MEMS
marketplace. The keynote speaker was Dr.
Alejandro Gonzales Hernandez, General Director of Training
and Innovation Technology of Mexico's Economic Ministry, who spoke
to the Mexican government's commitment the process of engaging
academic, private, and international resources to guide Mexico's
entry in the MEMS market. Subsequent speakers spoke about the
importance of packaging, plastics, biomedical applications, educational
infrastructure, and cluster development as focus areas for Mexico's
initiative.
International cooperation
was a key theme of the event. Dr. Regan Stinnett of Sandia National
Laboratories highlighted the vision of Microsystems as providing
the foundation for a revolution in manufacturing over the coming
century, an important partnering opportunity for the United States
and Mexico. Discussions made it clear that the focused cooperation
between the universities, research labs, businesses, and governments
of the states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Texas, and New Mexico
have distinct potential to foster development of a MEMS cluster
along the U.S.-Mexico border. MANCEF's speakers offered the concept
of Mexico, Canada, and the United States leveraging the North
American Free Trade Agreement to foster the emergence of Mexican
MEMS businesses, as well as projecting the vision of building
a Pan-American Micro-Nano Highway to supply the markets of the
Americas. Currently, other emerging Micro-Nano efforts in the
Americas are located in Costa Rica and Brazil.
It was gratifying that
MANCEF could provide this level of support to the Mexican initiative.
This is truly what makes MANCEF special...our ability to use and
deploy the vast intellectual capital resident within our volunteers
to support the communication and education of commercialization
of Micro and Nanotechnology. MANCEF is looking forward to continuing
its relationship with Mexican MEMS.
Mass Leatherback
Turtle Release
A unique and wonderful
aspect of the Puerta Vallarta meeting was releasing day old leatherback
turtles into the ocean waves to start their lives. The Hotel
Camino Real is an active supporter of protection of turtle nesting
sites and conservancy efforts along its shoreline. Photos courtesy
of Dr. J.C. Chiao.
Click the photos
to see larger versions:
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Membership
MANCEF would like to thank and 'Welcome' our
newest members, whether individual, corporate, academic, or government.
For those renewing your membership, please see: www.mancef.org/members.htm.
MANCEF Members Only Special Benefit
SEMICON West MEMS Workshop Presentations Online
MANCEF members may access the conference presentations
for the SEMICON West MEMS Workshop online. Members will be mailed a web
address separately from the newsletter. Please be looking for it in your
email shortly. This is a one time benefit of your paid membership; please
do not transfer the proceedings to non-MANCEF members. All of the materials
are copyrighted and should be used for personal use only. Copying or re-publication
will require written permission from SEMI itself.
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