Leading Edge Technology

Prior to the founding of SMD in 1979, thin-film strain gauge technology had been limited to aerospace and other ultra-high accuracy applications. The development of SMD's proprietary thin-film process technology has yielded economic and performance benefit enabling the company to considerably expand its served applications, including medical, industrial, automotive, and process control, SMD thin-film sensors have significant advantages over silicon, foil strain gauge, capacitance, and other sensing technologies:

• Substantially improved long-term stability
• Lower power consumption
• Materially better temperature effects
• Flexible technology for unique shapes and sizes
• Inorganic dielectric materials