Falco Systems

Falco Systems was founded in 2006 to provide the MEMS community with electronic equipment optimized for MEMS research, development, and testing: measurement electronics for MEMS research. Several amplifier design types have been investigated for the first products, and the concepts now used in the WMA series high voltage amplifiers were found to be the best for a high-quality range of products. The amplifiers in the WMA series are the first of many MEMS laboratory building blocks to come. Future products include a low noise high voltage amplifier and a precision capacitance meter for measuring MEMS comb drive motion.

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Falco Systems is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For contact information, click here.

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Dr. ir. W. Merlijn van Spengen, the founder of Falco Systems, received the M.S. degree in electronic engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1999. In 2004 he obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, while staying at the independent microelectronics research institute IMEC. For his Ph.D. research he studied MEMS reliability: stiction, charging, and their influence on RF MEMS switches . Apart from his involvement with Falco Systems, he is currently also associated with the the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, where he is working on MEMS tribology research (Veni grant) and recently obtained the "discoverer of the year" award of the faculty of science.