AMFitzgerald was founded by Dr. Alissa M. Fitzgerald in 2003 to provide MEMS development services to a growing industry. AMFitzgerald was one of the first service companies to successfully leverage university fabs (Stanford and UCB) to build prototypes and validate designs prior to foundry volume manufacturing. Our business model enables us to provide highly sophisticated prototyping services to clients without the financial burden of owning a fab, which in turn, allows us to stay focused on high value MEMS development services. Our engineers build prototypes at UCB Marvell Nanolab and perform testing in our own Class 100 cleanroom. Successful prototypes are then transferred to commercial foundries around the world for volume manufacturing.
Some highlights of our work to date:
We have served over 200 clients to date, many international and many in the Fortune 500. And we have successfully transferred 20 MEMS designs to 8 foundries around the world.
Published a book, MEMS Product Development: From Concept to Commercialization, on our methods.
Multi-year development project on 3-axis micro-mirror technology with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, available for license from LLNL since 2017.
Partnered with Millar OEM in 2017 to provide ISO-13485 MEMS chip mounting and assembly services for medical device applications.
Created the RocketMEMS® service in 2012, in collaboration with Silex, to provide OEM customers with quick-turn, semi-custom MEMS pressure sensors on a production-qualified process.
Invented a method of reliability analysis and fracture prediction specific to MEMS devices; granted patent #7,979,237 in 2011.
AMFitzgerald is an active member of MSIG (MEMS & Sensors Industry Group), sponsoring and participating in many MSIG events and conferences around the world. We also joined Silicon Catalyst in 2016, an incubator of silicon-based startups, to provide services and support to the next generation of silicon entrepreneurs.
AMFitzgerald employees have been or are board members at the MEMS Industry Group, Transducers Research Foundation, Singh Nanotechnology Center at University of Pennsylvania and IEEE Spectrum.