On Monday April 19th a brand new MEMS Innovation Laboratory (LI-MES in Spanish) was inaugurated. This laboratory belongs to the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) that is part of the Mexican National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT).

With the opening of these premises Mexico became one of the few countries with capacity to create micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). Also, the LI-MEMS is unique in Latin America given that only Stanford and Berkeley universities in the U.S.A. count with similar facilities.

Despite being a very novel technology, MEMS have shown to be very useful in a wide range of fields such as telecommunications, computer technology, automotive industry and medical devices, among many others.