Micromechanics And Mems: Classic And Seminal Papers To 1990 (A Selected Reprint Volume)

Most of these "early" papers were printed between 1987 and 1990. Transcripts of Richard Feynman's classic 1959 talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," as well as his unpublished 1983 update to that speech and a few other general papers, begin the collection. The rest of the 104 articles cover side drive, comb drive, electrostatic, magnetic, and harmonic actuators; valves and pumps; fluidics; surface and bulk micromachining; LIGA; computer-aided design; and metrology. The editor includes brief introductions to each section and a list of comments on writing an article. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Editor William S. Trimmer has been working in micromechanics since 1985. He is currently with Belle Mead Research, Inc. Dr. Trimmer co-organized the first workshop in the MEMS series, "Micro Robots and Teleoperators Workshop;" co-organized the National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop on Microelectromechanical Systems Research; co-edited the NSF report "Small Machines, Large Opportunities: A Report on the Emerging Field of Microdynamics;" edited a special section of the Sensors and Actuators Journal; and started the "Micromechanics" section in the Sensors and Actuators Journal. He organized the first joint IEEE/ASME journal, The Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, and was the editor for the first six years.