MEMS technology

STMicroelectronics Announces Open.MEMS Licensing to Boost Time-to ...

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, the world's top MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manufacturer and the leading supplier of MEMS for consumer and mobile as well ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - MEMS technology

Nikon Metrology System Enables Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer to X-Ray ...

In addition to electronics inspection, the X-ray machine can also be used for X-ray and CT inspection of micro-electro-mechanical systems (used in smartphones), accelerometers, gyroscopes, and pressure sensors. It also helps in inspection of harnesses, ...

yesterday AZoOptics.com (press release) - MEMS technology

NTLab Launches GNSS RF Front-End with Reduced Power Consumption

NTLab, a fabless microelectronic company based in Belarus, is offering the NT1051 dual-channel multi-frequency (L1/L2/L3/L5) mutli-system (GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/BeiDou) RF front end. Manufactured in 0.18 um TSMC BiCMOS technology, it provides ...

yesterday GPS World magazine - MEMS technology

MEMS/Sensor Interface I3C Rocks

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A new extension of the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C or I²C) interface between microelectromechanical system (MEMS) and other sensors to either a hub or processor has debuted. The new specification -- dubbed I3C -- was announced ...

yesterday EE Times - MEMS technology

OLED devices for lab-on-a-chip-applications

(Nanowerk News) Smart and portable medical equipment is essential for fast and easy point-of-care and point-of-use diagnostics. Lab-on-a-chip applications in hand-held devices can help to save time for laboratory medical analysis in emergency scenarios.

yesterday Nanowerk - MEMS technology

STMicroelectronics Unveils Ultra-Small MEMS Pressure Sensor

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, the world's top MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manufacturer and the leading supplier of MEMS for consumer and mobile as well ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - MEMS technology

MEMS: How smart devices and wearables will keep getting smarter

MEMS are the Microelectronic mechanical systems, or very small machines, that power everyday things like the Pebble Watch and the smart light bulb. Why does my Pebble need charging so often? A limitation of current MEMS technology. Why can't we ...

yesterday Phoenix Business Journal (blog) - MEMS technology

New technique for generating electricity from mechanical vibrations

The researchers also ran simulations of their work function energy harvester in realistic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) scenarios, determining that the built-in voltage could lead to output power over one order of magnitude higher when the ...

yesterday Gizmag - MEMS technology

New RF circulator to run rings around old technology

As a result, the researchers say that this should lead to improvements in cost and size and allow the incorporation of circulators in cellphones and other microelectronic communications devices that may result in faster downloads, fewer call drop-outs ...

yesterday Gizmag - MEMS technology

MEMS Sensor Hub Goes All-in-One

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are becoming so ubiquitous that new sensor hub chips -- like Apple's M8 -- are needed to fuse their data into application-specific information. PNI Sensor Corp., of Santa Rosa, Calif., already offers its SENtral ...

2014-11-11 EE Times - MEMS technology

Graphene electrodes for simultaneous electrophysiology and neuroimaging

To fabricate their tool, the team developed microfabrication techniques to build transparent graphene microelectrodes on flexible substrates. They transferred graphene – grown on copper by chemical vapor deposition – onto polyimide substrate with ...

today Nanowerk - MEMS technology

MEMS business

mCube Named MEMS Start-Up of the Year at MEMS Executive Congress; Wins ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — mCube, provider of the world's smallest MEMS motion sensors, today announced the company secured three awards at last week's MEMS Executive Congress for its significant innovations in MEMS and sensors. Based on online votes ...

today Rock Hill Herald (press release) - MEMS business

Trillion-Sensor Vision, Results Shared

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Saving the planet one sensor at a time, the backers of the Trillion Sensor Summit here shared their visions and some research working toward a fully instrumented world. "I believe in a world with abundance -- a world without hunger ...

yesterday EE Times - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Artificial nanomaterial retina could someday help restore vision

(Nanowerk News) The loss of eyesight, often caused by retinal degeneration, is a life-altering health issue for many people, especially as they age. But a new development toward a prosthetic retina could help counter conditions that result from ...

yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Strong and flexible nanomaterial engineered

Researchers at Drexel University in the US and Dalian University of Technology in China have chemically engineered a new, electrically conductive nanomaterial that is flexible enough to fold, but strong enough to support many times its own weight.

2014-11-11 Laboratory Talk - Nanotechnology

Engineers efficiently 'mix' light at the nanoscale

(Nanowerk News) The race to make computer components smaller and faster and use less power is pushing the limits of the properties of electrons in a material. Photonic systems could eventually replace electronic ones, but the fundamentals of ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

EPFL Researchers Create Few-Atom Wide Electrical Channel with 2D Insulating ...

Scientists at EPFL have shown that a conducting channel can be created with few-atom width in the contact zone between different insulating material sheets. This work can help create not just new nano- and micro-electronic devices but also new solar cells.

yesterday Azom.com - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

AVS 61st International Symposium and Exhibition 2014-11-09 - 2014-11-14 Baltimore, MD Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
3D ASIP 2014 2014-12-10 - 2014-12-12 Burlingame, CA 3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging
ICMEMSS 2014 2014-12-18 - 2014-12-20 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, INDIA International Conference on MEMS and Sensors
The 28th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems 2015-01-18 - 2015-01-22 Estoril, Portugal
SPIE Photonics West 2015 2015-02-07 - 2015-02-12 Moscone Center San Francisco Photonics West, the #1 laser, photonics, biomedical optics conference
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2015 2015-02-22 - 2015-02-26 San Jose, CA The #1 Event for Lithographic Technologies, Materials, Processing, and more.
NANOSMAT-Asia 2015 Conference 2015-03-24 - 2015-03-27 Kayseri, Turkey The 2nd International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials
DTIP of MEMS/MOEMS 2015 2015-04-27 - 2015-04-30 Montpelier, France Design, Test, Integration & Packaging
Automotive Sensors and Electronics Expo 2015 2015-05-20 Detroit, MIchigan Annual Conference and Exhibition
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2015-06-14 - 2015-06-17 Washington, DC Nanotech, Microtech, Biotech, Cleantech
Transducers 2015 2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25 Anchorage, Alaska