Products Driving MEMS Adoption

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Products Driving MEMS Adoption
Mobile Phones/PMP
Notebook PCs Free fall detection
Game Controllers
Input Devices/ Remote Controllers
ST sells to major OEMs in all these market
segments
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Easy navigation in mobile phones
Portrait / Landscape auto-detection
On-screen map readjustment
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Take a better Picture
NOT Stabilized
Piezoelectric Solution are power hungry and bulky
Stabilized
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ST MEMS History
228M
102M
31M
3M
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ST Top of the list
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One possible example

• Microelectronics and

Bio Systems
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Bio systems

• Bio - WHITE
• Water
• Air

• Bio - GREEN
• Animal
• Plants

• Bio - RED
• People

• Heart
• Blood
• Insulin

• Certification
• Food contamination
• Control
• Process Monitor

• Seismology
• Landslides
• Avalanches
• Bio-defense

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Healthcare facts and figures

• The issues
• Aging population (worldwide)
• Need to improve the quality of service
• Need to provide additional services
• In 2007 2 trillions spent in the USA on
  healthcare
• 25 of the national economy (USA) tied up in
  healthcare by 2025
• Underdeveloped countries do not have enough
  healthcare professionals to serve the population
  in far-away regions

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Today
. IN SPECIALIZED CENTERS .ASSISTED
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tomorrow
.TOTALLY PORTABLE .EASY TO USE
AUTO-MONITORING
Bio-Sensors
AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS
. AT HOME-IN OFFICE . NOT ASSISTED
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Bio-to-Bit convergent technologies
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Bio-to-Bit Platforms

1. Bio-sensors
2. Sensor networks (body gateway)
3. Connection through low power wireless

• From specialized medical center to personal
  environment (body, home, office, car)
• Individual autonomy in the sample extraction (no
  needs of specialized assistance)
• bit transmission instead of biological samples
  movement

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Bio-to-Bit a few building blocks

• Thermo-reactors (PCR for DNA - qPCR for DNA)
• Electronic noses
• Ethylometer
• Pumps
• Valves
• Syringes
• Wet-ability
• Microfluidic (idrofilia, idrofobia)
• Electro-Dielectrophoresys
• Energy Scavenging (piezo, magnetic,
  electromagnetic , )

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Bluetooth off-body sensing
Weight
Glucose
Movements
Temperature
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And more
Array of Smart Micro-Robotic Medical
Instrumentation
Main Vision System
Assistive Platform
Multiple Wireless Modules
Sealing Elements
Operative Platform
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Conclusion

• Lateral thinking
• Radical innovation
• Cross-competences and multidisciplinarity
• Solid microelectronics technologies
• Answer to real needs of our society
• Improve the quality of our life

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Conclusion
Long life to Silicon its pervasiveness improves
the quality of our lives!!!
Thank you
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