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MEMS technology
 Micro-Windmills Could Help Charge the Electronics of the Future
- Although battery life has long been the bane of mobile existence, a new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology could solve the ever-present problem of recharging your mobile device. Measuring in at only 1.8 mm at its widest point, the key to ...
today ENGINEERING.com - MEMS technology
- In the Company of MEMS: They Do the Hard Work While You Play ...
- MEMS are the Cinderellas of the electronic world. They do a lot of hard work, but get very little recognition. The tiny chips, their full name is micro-electro-mechanical systems, can sense mechanical motion and convert that ...
GEreporter today - MEMS technology
- Superconducting spintronics pave way for next-generation computing
- The research, reported in Nature Communications, provides the first evidence that superconductors could be used as an energy-efficient source for so-called "spin-based" devices, which are already starting to appear in microelectronic circuits. Beyond ...
today Phys.Org - MEMS technology
- Next in Tech: 4 Technologies to Watch in 2014 - A New Wave of Sensors
- Advancements in materials, microelectromechanical systems, and wireless communication are making sensors for all manner of medical applications less invasive than they have ever been. A 2013 report released by global technology research firm ON ...
yesterday Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry - MEMS technology
 Tech Could Treat Behavior That Leads to Obesity, Eating Disorders
- Indeed, ear-based systems have already shown promise: Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Photonic Microsystems, in Dresden, tested eight chew-detection algorithms using an in-ear microphone and recently reported 80 percent accuracy for most of ...
today IEEE Spectrum - MEMS technology
MEMS business
- CES 2014: Sharp Shows Off 7" MEMS Display, OLED Watch Out!
- Without any particular pomp or circumstance, Sharp was showing off its 7" MEMS—or Micro Electro Mechanical System—display with 1280 x 768 pixels at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. As a direct rival for OLED, MEMS could shape up to be the ...
today DigitalVersus - MEMS business
 Fraunhofer ISIT Acquires EVG 850TB/DB Fully Automated Bonding/Debonding ...
- The EVG850TB/DB automated system is a highly flexible tool that can be configured to support a variety of bonding materials. The system is used to temporarily bond a device wafer to a rigid carrier wafer for safe and efficient processing of the device wafer.
yesterday AZoNano.com - MEMS business
- 3D Gesture-Sensing Technologies in Smart Devices Poised for Growth.
- Mobile devices have touch screens and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) as major user interfaces, but gesture sensing exists as a supportive user interface. Smart TVs and other larger devices cannot leverage touch screens, which is why Samsung ...
yesterday X-bit Labs - MEMS business
Nanotechnology
- New hybrid molecules could lead to materials that function at the nanoscale
- The outcome of the CAREER Award will be new materials with predictable structure and organication on both the molecular scale and nanoscale. A new molecular architecture, dendornized helix bundle assemblies, will be developed under this award.
yesterday Phys.Org - Nanotechnology
- Water pinning nanostructures inspired by nature
- ... broad technological implications ranging from dew collection as water source for residence in arid regions, anti-drip function for greenhouse films in agricultural countries, liquid transport and control in microfluidics and spectroscopy, and ...
yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology
 Layered Security: Carbon Nanotubes Promise Improved Flame-Resistant Coating
- 15, 2014 — Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces ...
today Science Daily (press release) - Nanotechnology
- Seeing beauty in a materials science world
- The group was investigating the properties of materials at the nanoscale, and Loynachan helped to fabricate 60-nanometer-wide platinum pillars — a scale that had not previously been achieved. The researchers then subjected the pillars to various ...
yesterday MIT News - Nanotechnology
Nanotech business
 Patent maps reveal new tech connections
- To demonstrate this, the paper uses an overlay of the nanotechnology-related patenting activities of two companies, Samsung and DuPont, and two different nanotechnology subfields, nano-biosensors and graphene (a two-dimensional crystalline chemical ...
today Futurity: Research News - Nanotech business
Featured Event
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, electronic design automation (EDA), embedded systems and software (ESS), and intellectual property (IP).
The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design.
Event Calendar
- IEEE SF Bay Area MEMS Chapter
- 2014-01-22
Qualcomm Cafe, Santa Clara, CA 7:45pm
Emergence of Trillion Sensors Movement
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- 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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