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MEMS technology
- Tactus makes real, physical buttons appear on your touchscreen
- These microfluidics are small channels that are routed throughout the Tactile Layer, allowing fluid to expand the top polymer layer, which creates physical buttons. It sounds impressive, but it'll be more impressive once we see Tactus' technology built ...
today TweakTown - MEMS technology
- The amazing power of MEMS, in two GIFs
- The light is turning on and off as fast as 10,000 times a second thanks to a microelectromechanical system (MEMS), which acts as sensors and actuators. When you rotate your tablet or smartphone from portrait view to landscape — and vice versa — you ...
today Washington Post (blog) - MEMS technology
- InvenSense launches 70-dB MEMS microphone
- InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced it is sampling the ICS-40720 analog MEMS microphone for consumer applications – but only to special customers. The microphone has a redesigned MEMS membrane and a signal-conditioning amplifier ...
2014-01-09 EDN.com - MEMS technology
- Smaller 9-axis MEMS module from ST with improved resolution
- “This tiny, high-performance 9-axis module leverages our latest MEMS technology to enable a wide variety of position-sensing and movement-tracking applications in next-generation mobile and wearable devices,” said Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice ...
yesterday EE Herald - MEMS technology
 Technology uses micro-windmills to recharge cell phones
- “The micro-windmills work well because the metal alloy is flexible and Smitha's design follows minimalism for functionality.” Chiao said. WinMEMS became interested in the microelectromechanical system research and started a relationship with UT Arlington.
today R & D Magazine - MEMS technology
MEMS business
 The Five Most Disruptive Innovations at CES 2014
- Embedded sensors – Thanks in large part to the smartphone revolution, innovators worldwide now have access to a wide range of low-cost microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers. It's now easy ...
2014-01-10 Forbes - MEMS business
 MEMS resonator outperformed quartz in 2013
- In 2013, Silicon Labs revealed a quartz-beating MEMS resonator, the first fruit of technology from its 2010 acquisition of Sunnyvale-based Silicon Clocks, and a gem of semiconductor engineering. “We are guaranteeing ±20ppm performance for 10 years from ...
2014-01-09 ElectronicsWeekly.com - MEMS business
- Pace of growth for MEMS in mobile devices may ... - I-Micronews
- Growth rates for MEMS in mobile phones and tablets will calm down a bit from explosive to merely strong going forward. But there will be no let up in the lightning pace of change, as the high profi le market opportunity next ...
2014-01-10 - MEMS business
Nanotechnology
 New hybrid molecules could lead to materials that function at the nanoscale
- The National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientist is studying a class of molecules known as dendrons, highly branched molecules shaped like wedges or cones, which pack together to form circular or spherical assemblies with nanoscale dimensions.
today National Science Foundation (press release) - Nanotechnology
- New Twist on Epitaxial Growth Opens New Possibilities for Two-Dimensional ...
- Some people believe that developing new manufacturing techniques for nanoscale devices, like new types of epitaxy in which crystals are grown on a substrate, may in fact be more critical to producing the next generations of chips than just creating new ...
today IEEE Spectrum - Nanotechnology
 The nanotechnology in your toothpaste
- Nina Quadros, associate director for Virginia Tech's Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, does not think we are far from establishing safety regulations for nanotechnology in the cosmetics industry: "It's important that regulations are developed ...
today The Guardian - Nanotechnology
 A nanotechnology formulation for glaucoma
- (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a nanocarrier with the capability of sustained release for ocular indications. Specifically, the developed nanocarrier demonstrated sustained efficacy (IOP lowering up to 120 days with a single subconjunctival ...
2014-01-10 Nanowerk - Nanotechnology
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Event Calendar
- The 27th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
- 2014-01-26 - 2014-01-30
San Francisco, CA
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- SPIE Photonics West 2014
- 2014-02-01 - 2014-02-06
San Francisco, CA
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- SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014
- 2014-02-23 - 2014-02-27
San Jose, CA
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- MEMS Executive Congress Europe 2014
- 2014-03-11
Munich, Germany
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- The 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
- 2014-04-13 - 2014-04-16
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- MEMS Industry Group Conference
- 2014-04-24
Tokyo, Japan
The Global MEMS Supply Chain
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- MIG M2M Forum 2014
- 2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21
Berkeley, CA
The MEMS Supply Chain - It Takes a Village
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- Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014)
- 2014-06-01 - 2014-06-05
San Francisco, CA
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- Sensors Expo & Conference
- 2014-06-24 - 2014-06-26
Rosemont, IL
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