MEMS technology

Gradients generation for cell biology in microfluidics - Elveflow

One of the most used technique to generate gradients in microfluidics is exploiting laminar flows. Although this method provides several advantages – among them simplicity of approach – it has one main drawback: the inevitable creation of ...

admin 2014-12-03 - MEMS technology

MEMS sensors and platforms to build a hyper-attentive world of objects

This spatial acumen originates from micrometer-sized devices known as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that sense velocity, acceleration and magnetic field strength. Demand for MEMS has boomed recently, with MEMS sensors finding their way ...

2014-12-03 Phys.Org - MEMS technology

OPO-Based Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Speeds Up Gas Analysis

Now, today's state-of-the art microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabricated cantilever microphones with optical laser readout (Figure 1) make it possible to achieve orders-of-magnitude enhancement in the sensitivity and the dynamic range, compared ...

yesterday Photonics.com - MEMS technology

MEMS Mics Taking Over

Most microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphones just copy the basic principle driving electrets, electrically biased diaphragms whose capacitance changes as sound wave vibrate it. On the frontier, however, are piezoelectric MEMS microphones, which ...

2014-12-02 EE Times - MEMS technology

Micro Implants Learn the Brain's Language to Heal the Body

His team is contributing expertise in microelectronics and non-invasive, wearable and wireless medical devices. “Our sensor designs will be tiny, and they will be able to record the electrical signals coming from the individual neurons,” Ashe says ...

2014-12-02 Product Design & Development - MEMS technology

MEMS business

MEMS Industry Group Presents Sensors and MEMS Technology at 2015 ...

Enabled by micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and sensors, sensor hubs/SoCs, sensor fusion, low-power wireless connectivity, and specialized software development platforms, wearables represent one of the fastest-growing market segments in ...

2014-12-05 AZoNano.com - MEMS business

Veeco Instruments acquires Solid State Equipment Holdings for $150M

Veeco Instruments Inc. has acquired privately held Solid State Equipment Holdings LLC, a maker of wafer-processing equipment used in making semiconductors and tiny microelectromechanical devices, for about $150 million in cash, the companies ...

2014-12-04 Newsday - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology against malaria parasites

(Nanowerk News) Malaria parasites invade human red blood cells, they then disrupt them and infect others. Researchers at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have now developed so-called nanomimics of host cell ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale spheres allow low-cost creation of 3-D nanostructures

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3-D) structures with biomedical, electronic and photonic applications. The new ...

yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

This Software Takes Us One Step Closer to Biological Nanomachines

Scientists at MIT have developed a computer model that allows them to create three-dimensional DNA shapes of unprecedented complexity (like 20-faced icosahedrons). Their system represents a significant step forward in the field of nanoscale biological ...

2014-12-05 io9 - Nanotechnology

Rotating nanotube motors offer glimpse of future nanodevices

With further work, a gradientless, temperature-driven rotating motor made of a DWCNT could have wide applications in the next generation of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). "Compared with any other nanomotor, e.g., electric motors and fluidic ...

yesterday Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Leverage nanotechnology to speed up the energy transition

To achieve this, we need to bring the advances in fields such as materials sciences and nanotechnology, information technology, engineering, and other natural sciences to bear on the problem much faster. This comes down to being ambitious and ...

2014-12-05 Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Developments in Bullet Proof Materials using Nanotechnology

A microbullet traveling at supersonic speed is captured in this composite of three timed images as it makes its way toward a suspended sheet of multilayer graphene. Experiments carried out at Rice University show graphene is 10 times better than steel ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Scientists Develop HYPER 3D Printing Pen That Works in Nanoscale

While it isn't quite the first 3D printing pen, it certainly seems to be the first such printing device to work in nanoscale. The pen has a microscopic hydrogel pyramid at its tip, which is soaked at the very tip in an electrochemical reaction-driving ...

2014-12-05 3DPrint.com - Nanotechnology

New Technique for Chemical Imaging of Nanoscale Materials

A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Ohio University have devised a powerful technique that simultaneously resolves the chemical characterization and topography of nanoscale materials down to the ...

2014-12-02 AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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