The V International Forum, dedicated to MEMS design, manufacture, testing and standardization, was held on 15-16 June, 2015 in Interagency Center of Solid-state Microelectronics (Nizhny Novgorod) by Russian MEMS Association.
The Forum has been established as the international conference, which annually becomes the leading event in microsystems in Russia and the CIS. The first forum was held in 2011 in Moscow as a trial event for the Russian audience, dedicated to microsystems agenda. Today the Forum is intended to be a high informative conference towards real-life experience with a wide range of subjects. At the same time, the high level of conference is provided through to participation of leading in-ternational and Russian specialists of MEMS industry.
Russian MEMS Association organizes international conferences on microsystems in the largest industrial clusters of Russia. The first step in this direction was IV MEMS-Forum – 2014 in Kazan. The V MEMS-Forum – 2015 was held in a large innovative cluster of our country – Nizhny Novgorod. One of the most science-intensive and advanced Russian organization is situated here – Interagency Center of Solid-state Microelectronics. The company successfully conducts R&D in surface and bulk micromachining as well as manufactures various MEMS devices. Deep understanding and broad experience of Inter-agency Center of Solid-state Microelectronics in the field of MEMS and its strong partnership with RAMEMS make it an ideal site for MEMS-Forum – 2015, including the technical tour around the labora-tories and engineering buildings. Interagency Center of Solid-state Microelectronics scientific and operation base includes the design centre of digital and analog very large scale IC, submicron very large scale IC production, laboratory of semiconductor compound analytical research and very large scale IC assembly sites.
The agenda of MEMS-Forum – 2015 will be divided into two days with several sessions. In the framework of the conference different mi-crosystems technologies and devices were considered from the point of view of their design, manufacture, testing, standardization and applica-tion. The main feature of the MEMS-Forum – 2015 will be a division of the reports into the main blocks, concerning MEMS design and manufacturing. During the first day the presentations were presented on recent trends in microsystems in Russia and abroad. There were both Russian (OOO “Sovtest ATE”, JV Bee Pitron, Interagency Center of Solid-state Microelectronics, Russian Research Insttitute “Electronstandart”, “MIET” and others) and international speakers (Fraunhofer (Germany), Alchimer (France), Picosun Oy (Finland), Maicom Quarz (Gemany).
During the first day the following topics were covered
 During the second day the roundtable discussion “Developments commercialization in nano- and microelectronics” was organized. The participants discussed the international experience in design commercialization, market leaders work experience on the Russian market with Russian customers, RUSNANO initiatives in nano- and microelectron-ics, developments commercialization experience in Skolkovo, the recent research developments and market prospects for Russian designers. Among the participants of the discussion were Dr. S. Kurth, Project manager, group leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems (Germany), V. Stakhin, Head of the VLSI integration engineering department, Zelenograd nanotechnology center (Russia), A. Smolyaninov, a representative of the Skolkovo project member, Gen-eral director of Nano-Meta Technologies LLC. |
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The leader of the cluster “Nuclear technology” project V. Turtikov represented Skolkovo opportunities and experience in innovative projects support and commercialization: “Skolkovo supports high-tech industrial projects, particularly microelectronics technologies and MEMS among the cluster priority. High technology industrial developments, represented during the conference let us hope that new MEMS projects will appear ”, – V. Turtikov noted.
Evaluating market prospects for Russian developers, Dr. D. Urmanov, executive director of Russian MEMS Association, noted that nowadays new MEMS technologies and products are of great topicality in Russia. The interest to use them is explained by it’s wide application – they can be used independently or as a separate part of more complex systems.
• Set of specific microsystems for modern magnetic aspect sensors.
Wrapping up, the participants shared their impressions about the con-ference, thanked the speakers for their informative presentations and organizers for the opportunity to discuss MEMS technologies development, listen to the colleagues, thereby to get feedback and to present their reports. New business contacts were made, new projects and co-operation prospects were created between the Forum participants, that was the main goal of such events.
So MEMS Forum celebrated it’s V Anniversary in the atmosphere of constructive and absorbing dialogue, during which speakers shared their achievement in MEMS with the audience, the unique experience of it’s application in wide application, discussed the world MEMS market development level and forecast the way of it’s progress.
Russian MEMS Association expressed it’s gratitude to the general sponsor “Sovtest ATE”, co-organizer “Interagency Center of Solid-state Microelectronics” and official international partners for the organization of the event, trade journals for advertising support, and also to all the speakers and participants and invite all of them to the VI MEMS-Forum, the venue of which will be Southern Federal University (Taganrog).