An Overview of the Application of MEMS Based Textile.

Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) is an emerging high technology that has proven to be very successful in several industrial applications, particularly in the field of medical, automotive, textile and ink jet printing etc; The technological philosophy is to integrate sensors, actuators and electronics on to. a silicon substrate (polysilicon batch) to form a micromachine of size as small as a square millimeter in a cost effective manner. Such advantages prompted for investigating the potential applications of MEMS in textiles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]