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FILENUMBER: 1052 BEGIN_KEYWORDS MEMS EXCHANGE NETWORK END_KEYWORDS DATE: May 2002 TITLE: MEMS EXCHANGE NETWORK
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TITLE: MEMS EXCHANGE NETWORK

MEMS Exchange is a network of fabrication and design centers that
has  been  organized  and  connected  so  that a user can draft a
process sequence that accesses  multiple  facilities.   Planning,
logistics, and billing, as well as detailed network operation and
management are handled by the MEMS Exchange staff, who act  as  a
"trusted  intermediary" between the fabrication service providers
and  the  user  community.  The  fabrication  service   providers
consists of academic labs, commercial fabrication facilities, and
government labs including: Analog Devices, Case  Western  Reserve
University,  Cornell  Nanofabrication  Facility,  Louisiana State
University, Microwave Bonding  Instruments,  Sony  Semiconductor,
Stanford    Nanofabrication    Facility,    Teledyne   Electronic
Technologies, UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan.

The nodes of the network are interconnected via  the  World  Wide
Web  and  package  courier  services (e.g., Federal Express). The
nodes offer services in the form  of  fabrication  processes  and
sequences.  Fabrication  service  offerings consist of individual
discrete processing steps, whole or partial MEMS  device  process
sequences,   and   commercial   integrated   circuit  fabrication
processes. The fabrication  can  be  completely  performed  at  a
single  facility  in  specialized  cases  where a single facility
offers all the needed processing steps; but in  the  more  likely
case  where  the  required  processing capabilities are scattered
across different locations,  it  will  be  performed  at  several
fabrication locations. The MEMS Exchange administers the services
of the nodes and collects fees  for  the  services  executed  and
returns them to the respective nodes.

For additional information,  access:   MEMS EXCHANGE

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