Q&A: Innovative Linear Electrostatic MEMS Actuator

Shahrzad (Sherry) Towfighian is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Binghamton University's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She and her team have developed a capacitive MEMS actuator with a linear transfer characteristic that will enable major improvements in the manufacture of microphones and other MEMS devices such as gyroscopes and accelerometers.