AMFitzgerald was founded by Dr. Alissa M. Fitzgerald in 2003 to provide MEMS and microelectronic development services to a growing industry. AMFitzgerald was one of the first lab-to-fab service companies to successfully leverage university fabs (Stanford and UCB) to build silicon prototypes and validate designs prior to foundry volume manufacturing. Our business model enables us to provide highly sophisticated wafer-based fabrication without the financial burden of owning a fab, which in turn, allows us to stay focused on high value development services. Our team builds prototypes on silicon, glass, InP, and Ge 150 or 200 mm wafers at UCB Marvell Nanolab and does test and measurement in our own Class 100 cleanroom. Successful prototypes are then transferred to commercial foundries around the world for volume manufacturing. 

Some company highlights to date:

We have served hundreds of clients to date, many international and many in the Fortune 100. And we have successfully transferred dozens of chip designs to 8 foundries around the world.

Published a book, MEMS Product Development: From Concept to Commercialization (SpringerNature, 2021), on our methods.

Partnered with MEMS Infinity foundry division of Sumitomo Precision Products in 2024 to provide integrated design and fabrication services for piezoelectric MEMS devices.

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.