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Femtosecond Laser Micromachining of Next-Generation Implantable Medical ...
Santa Clara, CA – Palmaz Scientific, Spectra-Physics® and Innovative Laser Technologies (ILT) announce the demonstration of femtosecond laser micromachining of next-generation implantable medical devices. With Spectra-Physics' femtosecond lasers ...
today ThomasNet News (press release) - MEMS technology
Current Sensor IC has thermally enhanced, integrated design.
Worcester, MA — Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces a new thermally enhanced, fully integrated, hall-effect-based, high precision linear current sensor IC to their existing portfolio. Allegro's ACS770 device consists of a precision, low-offset linear ...
today ThomasNet News (press release) - MEMS technology
thumbnailSynaptic transistor adapts as it computes
Ramanathan and his research team are planning, along with microfluidics experts at Harvard, to investigate limits of miniaturization and performance. See the original paper in Nature - "A correlated nickelate synaptic transistor". This article ...
yesterday EDN.com (blog) - MEMS technology
5 Keys to Making Prosthetics That Are Just Like Human Legs
Goldfarb's group uses MEMs—tiny micro-electromechanical systems outfitted with accelerometers and gyroscopes that sense the angle and speed of the user's movement. "MEMs can do the equivalent of an instrumentation package that, a few years ago, ...
yesterday Popular Mechanics - MEMS technology
thumbnailiPad Air Teardown - Apple's Innovations Include a Cut in Manufacturing Costs ...
With the exception of the old iPad 2 (which used a digital microelectromechanical system microphone from Analog Devices) Apple has exclusively used analog microphones in all of its devices. Those analog mics had been sourced from Knowles and AAC but ...
today Techzone360 - MEMS technology
thumbnailSuperlubricity on the macroscale
Friction and wear will also become bottlenecks for micro-/nano-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) featured with sliding components. Superlubricity, a phenomenon where the friction almost vanishes between two solid surfaces, will be the key to solve ...
today Nanowerk - MEMS technology
Supercapacitor made out of silicon promises on-chip energy storage
The supercapacitor claims to be the first that can be made out of silicon along with the microelectronic circuitry that it powers could also equip mobile phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges. The ...
yesterday EDN.com (blog) - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Power Week in Review: Solar Cells Using IR, Cheaper SiC & MLPE Disruptors
Allegro MicroSystems announced a thermally enhanced Hall-effect-based high-precision linear current sensor IC for automotive, industrial, and renewable energy applications. The ACS770 has a 120-kHz typical bandwidth, a 4.1µs output rise time in ...
today EE Times - MEMS business
Report: MEMS sensors and hands-free UI will revolutionize mobile
​Accelerometers, gyroscopes, NFC, and gesture recognition are predicted to be the big winners in mobile devices. These mobile technologies are projected to make the greatest penetration gains over the coming years, according to a recent study by ...
today TG Daily - MEMS business
QuickLogic Joins MEMS Industry Group
... 2013) - QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the innovator in low-power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), today announced that it has joined MEMS Industry Group (MIG), a trade association advancing Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems ...
today Wall Street Journal - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailNanotechnology Offers Potential to Predict Football Concussions
American football is a collision sport. And one consequence of repeated collisions between players is concussions. Science is starting to draw a link between these so-called mild brain injuries and the long-term effects they have on the players—namely ...
today IEEE Spectrum - Nanotechnology
Nanoscale 'Tsunami' Helps Locusts Tune in
Understanding how the nanoscale features of the insect eardrum mechanically process sound could open up practical possibilities for the fabrication of embedded signal processing in extremely small microphones. Unlike a microphone membrane, the ...
yesterday Science Daily (press release) - Nanotechnology
Rock music bolsters nanotechnology solar cell efficiency
Rock music bolsters nanotechnology solar cell efficiency. (Nanowerk News) Playing pop and rock music improves the performance of solar cells, according to new research from scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London.
yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology
thumbnailSmartphone-Based Imaging System Spots Nanoscale Objects
Smartphone-Based Imaging System Spots Nanoscale Objects. New research shows how mobile devices can identify single viruses, maybe single molecules. By Charles Q. Choi. Tweet · Share on Tumblr · Tweet · submit to reddit · Share on Tumblr.
yesterday Scientific American - Nanotechnology
'Tumour-on-a-chip' platform fills some glaring holes in nanotechnology research
(Nanowerk News) A two-year collaboration between the Chan and the Rocheleau labs at the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) has led to the development of a new microfluidics screening platform that can accurately predict the way ...
today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

AIXTRON plays key roles in twodimensional nanomaterial projects
Graphene has the potential to revolutionize electronics in applications such as touch panel displays, lighting and fast transistors. In science and industry, researchers are already looking at further two-dimensional (2D) materials which are also ...
yesterday Compound Semiconductor - Nanotech business

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2013 3D ASIP

Event Calendar

MIG MEMS Executive Congress U.S.
2013-11-07 - 2013-11-08
Napa, CA
Meet your next customer at MEMS Executive Congress!
Manufacturing Trends for Consumer Inertial MEMS
2013-11-13
Online 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
Laurent Robin, Activity Leader Inertial MEMS Devices & Technologies, Yole Developpement & Michael McLaughlin, Business Development - Yole Inc.
2013 3D ASIP
2013-12-11 - 2013-12-13
Burlingame, CA
3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging
The 27th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
2014-01-26 - 2014-01-30
San Francisco, CA
SPIE Photonics West 2014
2014-02-01 - 2014-02-06
San Francisco, CA
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014
2014-02-23 - 2014-02-27
San Jose, CA
The 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
2014-04-13 - 2014-04-16
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
MEMS Industry Group Conference
2014-04-24
Tokyo, Japan
The Global MEMS Supply Chain
MIG M2M Forum 2014
2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21
Berkeley, CA
The MEMS Supply Chain - It Takes a Village

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