Applications
Thermal Imaging and Sensors
MEMS has transformed the thermal imaging industry with low-cost uncooled micro-bolometers and thermopiles for night vision, fever detection, and other thermal applications previously unavailable outside of the defense industry. These seemingly magical devices also empower humans to see in the long wave infrared (IR) spectrum (10-15 µm).
Atomica is pleased to help bring these innovations to life with our wafer processing, advanced DRIE, and getter deposition capabilities, particularly our proven vacuum wafer-level packaging (WLP) technologies.
Motion Sensors
MEMS-based motion sensors are adding inertial intelligence to products across industries including automotive, consumer electronics, aerospace, healthcare, oil exploration, and more. MEMS wafer processing enables the fabrication of advanced accelerometers (for straight-line acceleration), gyroscopes (for rotation), magnetometers (for orientation), and collective inertial measurement units (IMUs).
Recognizing that off-the-shelf motion-sensing devices often do not provide the precision or performance required for specific applications, Atomica is proud to work with customers to fabricate custom motion sensors. Our world-leading DRIE, advanced photolithography, WLP, and other capabilities position us to tackle the most challenging projects in sensor development. We are even bringing optical sensors such as fiber optic gyros into the MEMS realm with the help of platform technologies like Atomica’s silicon optical bench (SiOB).
Microphones
MEMS are driving the development of ever smaller, cheaper, and more sensitive microphones, in both analog and digital formats. Atomica’s mastery of complex wafer packaging using silicon and other advanced materials will help you bring cutting-edge acoustic sensing and response to your innovative device.
Gas and Chemical Sensors
MEMS-based approaches to detecting gases and chemicals rely on electrochemical, pellistor, photoionization, and other advanced methods. MEMS-based gas and chemical sensors are smaller, more sensitive, and can have more functionality than traditional sensors, enabling exciting applications in industries such as defense, manufacturing, health, and energy.
Other types of sensors:
Atomica offers experience and expertise in
- Pressure sensors.
- Flow sensors
- Humidity sensors
- Magnetic / Hall effect sensors
- Radiation and x-ray sensors
- Radio frequency (RF) devices
Explore Atomica’s Sensor Platforms that enable rapid prototyping and scalable production of your device.
Accelerometer Platform
See how Atomica’s Accelerometer platform empowers customers by offering standard structures for rapid prototyping and production scalability.
Comb Drive Platform
Uncover how Atomica’s Comb Drive platform provides customers with access to standard structures, facilitating faster prototyping and scalable production.
Gas Sensor Platform
Find out how Atomica’s Gas Sensor platform supports customers in leveraging standard structures to accelerate prototyping and expand production scalability.
Gyroscope Platform
Understand how Atomica’s Gyroscope platform helps customers use standard structures for efficient prototyping and scalable production.
Magnetic Sensor Platform
Gain insight into how Atomica’s Magnetic Sensor platform allows customers to work with standard structures, enabling rapid prototyping and scalable manufacturing.
Pressure Sensor Platform
Learn more about how Atomica’s Pressure Sensor platform equips customers with standardized structures for fast prototyping and scalable production.
Diaphragm Platform
Discover how Atomica’s Diaphragm platform enables customers to leverage standard structures for quick prototyping and scalable production.
Why Atomica?
A manufacturable path from prototype to production
Atomica is a U.S.-based microfabrication foundry that turns advanced device concepts into manufacturable, scalable hardware — and its advantage is not a single process but a system that de-risks the path from first prototype to volume.
30,000 sq ft cleanroom · Class 100 · ISO 9001 certified · ITAR registered · Santa Barbara, USA
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Engineering Collaboration
Atomica works as an engineering partner across design, materials, fabrication, and testing, bringing diverse expertise together to optimize each micro-scale device. That collaboration is what yields better products, lower cost, faster time-to-market, and quicker adaptation to emerging technologies.
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Process Standardization
Standardized processes give a clear framework for fabrication, scaling, and quality control. This is what delivers the consistency, quality, and efficiency that reliable, high-performance microdevices require — while supporting regulatory compliance and continuous improvement.
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Modeling & Simulation
Atomica evaluates designs before fabrication using physics-based modeling, FEA, CFD, AI, and multiphysics simulation. Simulating first reduces prototype iterations, lowers cost, identifies risks early, and improves first-pass success across photonics, sensors, biotech devices, MEMS, and integrated microsystems.
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AI Optimization (FabOps)
Atomica’s FabOps system applies AI and advanced analytics across wafer inspection, metrology, fab control, and project execution. By integrating equipment, process flows, pricing, projects, and manufacturing — with real-time visibility, lot tracking, and change control — it reduces risk and accelerates programs from prototype to scalable production.
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Fab Technology
Atomica operates a 30,000 sq ft, class-100 cleanroom near Santa Barbara, California — ISO 9001 certified and ITAR registered. Its full in-house process suite spans photolithography, deposition, dry and wet etch, bonding, plating, metrology, testing, dicing, and planarization, purpose-built for rapid prototyping and scalable production.
Explore Atomica’s in-depth resources to navigate modeling and simulation, rapid prototyping, scalable production, and fab evaluation — all with expert insight.
Rapid Prototyping Services at Atomica
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Scaling Production with Atomica’s Expertise
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Inside Atomica’s Advanced Fab Technology
Take a detailed look at our high-tech capabilities, engineered to support complex, precision-driven microfabrication.
Selecting the Right Fab for Your Project
Our Fab Evaluation Guide outlines essential criteria, ensuring your project is matched to the best fabrication partner.
Simulation-Driven Microfabrication
See how modeling and simulation improve performance, lower cost, shorten timelines, and drive better outcomes.