EUMIREL - the European Microsystems Reliability Service Cluster
The European Microsystems Reliability Service Cluster – EUMIREL has been developed out of the "Design for Micro & Nano Manufacture – PATENT" network. EUMIREL offers a wide range of reliability services to the European Microsystems industry:
Reliability analysis:
- Application depending accelerated reliability tests of MEMS, especially for harsh environment
- Quantitative Accelerated Life Testing of MEMS for calculating reliability indicators
- Functional testing in different environments: temperatures, pressure, gasses, humidity, vibration, etc.
- Electrical and environmental reliability testing including statistical data processing where possible
- Failure analysis including multi-physics modelling
- Design of dedicated test structures for reliability monitoring
- Research based services on MEMS reliability
Consultancy:
- Advice on MEMS reliability including material, processing and packaging related issues
- Development of reliability test plans
- FMEA studies
- Advice on test instrumentation and set-up and reliability methodology
Information about reliability issues:
- Access to databases on material issues, test structures, test equipment availability and MEMS failure mechanisms
We also offer Training Courses on all Aspects of MEMS reliability
CONTACT Information
Office / Executive Director: Patric Salomon (patric.salomon@4m2c.com)
Sales Desk: Xavier Lafontan (xavier.lafontan@novamems.com)
www.patent-dfmm.org/site/services.htm
Organisations interested in using EUMIREL Services may contact the Office, the Sales Desk or any of the partners that will redirect them to one or more of the best suited EUMIREL partners to answer the request. |
The members of EUMIREL are research institutes, universities and companies from 9 European countries, which are involved in microsystems’ reliability:
- IMEC (Belgium),
- IMT-Bucharest (Romania),
- Fraunhofer IMS Duisburg (Germany),
- Politechnico di Milano (Italy),
- 4M2C Patric Salomon / enablingMNT (Germany)
- NovaMems (France)
- CSL Liege (Belgium),
- WUT (Poland),
- BME (Hungary),
- Herriot Watt University (UK),
- University of Lancaster (UK),
- QinetiQ (UK),
- Baolab (Spain).
EUMIREL offers important benefits to the customer:
- A one-stop access to a broad group of experts in the reliability of microsystems;
- Work executed by experts selected from an international team with a rich expertise on the reliability of microsystems;
- Access to a wide range of test, reliability and failure analysis instrumentation available at different partners.
- A very flexible structure, ready to taget new customer requirements.
Training Courses offered on Request:
- MEMS reliability
- Reliability of RF-MEMS
- Quantitative accelerated life testing of MEMS
- Building-In Reliability - specific tools
- Process reliability for CMOS technology
- Failure analysis techniques for MEMS
- Reliability of MEMS packaging
- Reliability assessment with the structure function analysis of thermal transient measurements
- Thermal issues in MEMS structures
- Early detection of MEMS failures by surface potential mapping
- Instrumentation for accelerated MEMS reliability measurements
- Micro and nanofabrication techniques,
- Deformation and fracture of materials,
- Physico-chemistry and mechanics of thin films and multilayers
- Damping and other dissipative phenomena in MEMS
- Accidental drop simulations
- Simulation of fracture processes in polycrystalline materials for MEMS