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MEMS technology

Photos of the Day: NASA Tech Views Birth of the Universe

Techniques called micro-lithography and micro-machining are used to fabricate the devices. This image shows one of the NASA detectors from the BICEP2 project, developed in collaboration with the National Science Foundation. The sensors were used to ...

yesterday Product Design & Development - MEMS technology

Submersible Level Transducer offers ±0.25% static accuracy.

... piezo-resistive, electro-optic, electro-magnetic, variable reluctance, magneto resistive, digital encoders, thermistors, thermocouples, RTDs, capacitive, resonant beam, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), micro-electromechanical ...

today ThomasNet News (press release) - MEMS technology

Tech Breakthrough with Nanoscale Optical Switch

It is made of a metamaterial consisting of nanoscale particles of vanadium dioxide (VO2) that are deposited on a glass substrate and coated with a nanomesh of tiny gold nanoparticles. VO2 switches are ideal for optoelectronics applications, the ...

today Photonics.com - MEMS technology

GE MEMS Switch Technology Demonstrates Performance Which Could Meet ...

NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Niskayuna, NY, United States, 2014/03/18 - Prototype device testing shows that GE's RF MEMS switch can help enable increased data transfer speeds, enhanced signal quality, longer battery life, and the advanced RF designs ...

today Newswire Today (press release) - MEMS technology

6 and 9-axis DOF sensors are creating a new paradigm in the combos business

This process is expected to enter production through Tronics Microsystems within the next few years. Innovation also comes from back-end processing. Packaging issues had to be leveraged in order to attain the high integration required by advanced ...

today ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Consortium to develop synthetic diamond cooling solutions for ...

... for thermal solutions required for high heat flux application, develop heat sink design with advanced thermal materials such as synthetic diamond heat spreader, silicon-based micro fabrication, wafer bonding technologies, ...

yesterday - MEMS business

EVG establishes China headquarters in Shanghai

EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the compound semiconductor, MEMS and nanotechnology markets, has opened a new, wholly owned subsidiary in Shanghai. This centre is called EV Group China Ltd. and will ...

today Compound Semiconductor - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

MIT Researchers Develop Water Desalination Membrane ...

By observing water transport through membranes with pores of various sizes, the group has measured a water molecule's probability of condensing or bouncing off a liquid surface at the nanoscale. The results, published in ...

yesterday - Nanotechnology

Water Molecules Will Bounce Off a Liquid Surface

Jan Eijkel, a professor of microfluidics and nanofluidics at the Univ. of Twente in the Netherlands, says the group's work may be useful in understanding a wide range of phenomena, including the microphysics and chemistry of clouds, fluids, aerosols ...

yesterday Laboratory Equipment - Nanotechnology

Anti-icing strategies inspired by nanotechnology and biology

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hundreds of millions of liters of deicing agents and anti-icing fluids are used at airports worldwide, about 95 million liters at U.S. airports alone. Because deicers are typically used in very open and exposed outdoor environments ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

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 2014-03-18 Qualcomm Cafe, Santa Clara, CA 7:45pm Coupled Field MEMS Simulations - Dr. Metin Ozen, ANSYS Inc.
5th Annual Bay Area Biomedical Device Conference 2014-03-26 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. Cutting edge, Biomedical research
The 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems 2014-04-13 - 2014-04-16 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2014 Biosensors & Analytics Conference 2014-04-23 - 2014-04-24 Cleveland, OH Sensing the Future of Healthcare
MEMS Industry Group Conference 2014-04-24 Tokyo, Japan The Global MEMS Supply Chain
IEEE SF Bay Area MEMS Chapter 2014-04-30 Qualcomm Cafe, Santa Clara, CA - 7:45pm MEMS WARS: A New Hope - Dr. Kurt Petersen, Palios Inc.
MicroManufacturing Conference & Exhibits 2014-05-06 - 2014-05-08 Hartford, CT
MIG M2M Forum 2014 2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21 Berkeley, CA The MEMS Supply Chain - It Takes a Village
12th Annual MEPTEC MEMS Technology Symposium 2014-05-22 San Jose, CA Advances in MEMS - Foundations in Design, Process, Packaging and Test
Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014) 2014-06-01 - 2014-06-05 San Francisco, CA
IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2014) 2014-06-01 - 2014-06-06 Tampa Bay, FL For technologists involved in all aspects of microwave theory and practice
Hilton Head 2014 2014-06-08 - 2014-06-14 Hilton Head Island, SC A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
Microtech 2014 2014-06-15 - 2014-06-19 Washington, DC Addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies and business practices.
Sensors Expo & Conference 2014-06-24 - 2014-06-26 Rosemont, IL
MicroTAS 2014 2014-10-26 - 2014-10-30 San Antonio, TX
AVS 61st International Symposium and Exhibition 2014-11-09 - 2014-11-14 Baltimore, MD Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
The 28th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems 2015-01-18 - 2015-01-22 Estoril, Portugal
Transducers 2015 2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25 Anchorage, Alaska