MEMS technology

Firm's high-tech gear battles concussions

Linx IAS has been two years in development, and David Borkholder, chief technology officer for BlackBox and professor of microsystems engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, expects refinements will lead to different criteria or baselines ...

2015-01-16 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - MEMS technology

Primoceler and ON Semiconductor to deliver CMOS sensor solutions to ...

The company's tailor-made microfabrication solutions have not only improved manufacturing processes but also revolutionized microscale bonding of transparent materials and enabled completely new product portfolios and business opportunities in ...

2015-01-16 Intelligent Aerospace - MEMS technology

The heat signature

Unlike night-vision devices, which amplify small amounts of visible light, thermal imaging cameras rely on sensors known as microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, to make images from heat. Thermal imaging cameras are made up of a large array of ...

2015-01-17 The Indian Express - MEMS technology

Microscopic Motors Journey Though Mice

Micromachine medicine recently saw a small victory after a lab mouse's body was successfully navigated by a tiny team of microscopic motors. The machines in question delivered a small test cargo of gold nanoparticles into the lining of the subject's ...

2015-01-17 Nature World News - MEMS technology

Flagship smartphones soon to boast MEMS-based autofocus

OmniVision Technologies Inc. has joined hands with Wavelens to develop what they say is a novel autofocus (AF) technology that uses a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) instead of the old-fashioned voice coil motor (VCM) technology commonly used ...

yesterday EE Times India - MEMS technology

Microscope Takes 3-D Images from inside Moving Subjects

It could also be used for imaging cellular replication, function and motion in intact tissues, 3-D cell cultures and engineered tissue constructs; as well as imaging 3-D dynamics in microfluidics and flow-cell cytometry systems. Hillman next plans to ...

today Photonics.com - MEMS technology

'Smart Shoe' Devices Could Charge Up as You Walk

"Both [devices] are based on the same principle — electromagnetic induction," said Klevis Ylli, a doctoral student at the Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft Institute of Micromachining and Information Technology in Germany, and lead author of the paper ...

2015-01-17 Yahoo News - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Tech Startups Look to Disrupt—and Reinvent—Healthcare Industry

Along with a better grasp of microfluidics, startups like Theranos can test a drop of blood for cancer, cholesterol and cocaine, while even newer nanobiophysics could “make Theranos obsolete by providing immediate analysis at the point of care, rather ...

2015-01-16 brandchannel.com - MEMS business

MEMS Group Targets IoT

To forward this concept of sensor fusion, the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) and partners established a group dedicated to providing open-source algorithms for sensors, the Accelerated Innovation Community (AIC). MIG Executive Director Karen Lightman sat ...

today EE Times - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Solar Cell Efficiency Jumps 50% With Perovskite Layer

We're not ready to ditch graphene as the nanomaterial of the new millennium yet, but perovskite is catching up fast. According to Stanford, perovskite solar cells were introduced just a few years ago, in 2009. The first attempts ranged close to 4 ...

2015-01-16 CleanTechnica - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Cancer Treatment: Can Tiny 'Robots' Combat the Disease?

A critically ill patient will be injected with robots smaller than the head of a pin to test a new cancer treatment. Ido Bachelet, of Israel's Bar-Ilan Univerisity, told an incredulous audience recently that he and his team of nanotechnology scientists ...

yesterday Headlines & Global News - Nanotechnology

Scientists Discover Molecular Mechanisms Responsible for Adherens Junction ...

Scientists at the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered the molecular mechanisms responsible for the formation of the adherens junction at the nanoscale level. This research is published in ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology for clean drinking water

(Nanowerk News) One way of removing harmful nitrate from drinking water is to catalyse its conversion to nitrogen. This process suffers from the drawback that it often produces ammonia. By using palladium nanoparticles as a catalyst, and by carefully ...

2015-01-16 Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology used to produce ceramic membrane with high thermal stability

Nanotechnology used to produce ceramic membrane with high thermal stability. (Nanowerk News) The membrane has nanometric pores and was produced through a simple and cost-effective method. Ceramic membranes are usually used in pharmaceutics, ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

A Compound In Diapers Could Improve Nanoscale Imaging

The very same technology that makes diapers so absorbent may hold the answer to improving nanoscale imaging. MIT researchers have been looking for ways to get higher-resolution images from laboratory microscopes. And while getting a new, more ...

yesterday Pioneer News - Nanotechnology

High-throughput electrospray for nanomanufacturing and nanosatellite propulsion

Luis Fernando Velásquez-García is a principal investigator with the Microsystems Technology Laboratories. His group conducts research on micro- and nano-enabled multiplexed scaled-down systems that exploit high-electric field phenomena (electrospray, ...

today SPIE Newsroom - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

The 28th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems 2015-01-18 - 2015-01-22 Estoril, Portugal
Mobile Sensor Deployment 2015-01-29 Online 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST Making the whole greater than the sum of its' parts
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.
MEMS Executive Congress Europe 2015 2015-03-09 - 2015-03-10 Copenhagen, Denmark
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
Medical MEMS and Sensors 2015 2015-04-29 - 2015-04-30 Santa Clara, California Annual Conference and Exhibition
M2M Forum 2015 2015-05-06 - 2015-05-07 Boston, MA More information will be available soon!
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
MEMS Manufacturing 2015 2015-08-05 - 2015-08-06 Santa Clara, California Annual Conference and Exhibition
MIG Conference Asia 2015 2015-09-09 - 2015-09-10 Shanghai, China Stay tuned for more details!
MEMS Executive Congress US 2015 2015-11-04 - 2015-11-06 Napa, CA Stay tuned for more details!