Introductory MEMS

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We originally wanted to call this book Dr. Thom’s Big Book about Little Things, but, apart from being perhaps too playful a title, we didn’t like the word “big” in it. That’s because the book was intended to be an introduction to the world of science and engineering  at the microscale, not a comprehensive treatment of the field at large. Other authors have already written books like that, and they have done a wonderful job. But we wanted something different. We wanted an introductory MEMS text accessible to any undergraduate technical major, students whose common background consists of freshman level physics, chemistry, calculus and differential equations. And while a “little” book about little things might not suffice to that end, we at least desired a somewhat compact book about things micro.