MEMS technology

Tactile internet: 5G and the Cloud on steroids

A team led by Calogero Maria Oddo, a bio-roboticist at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, experiments with sensors built using tiny micro-electromechanical systems, or MEMS – powerful machines that are just microns in size. The ...

today E&T magazine - MEMS technology

Artificial organs: Honey, I shrunk the lungs

As an alternative, techniques and tools developed for silicon-chip construction are being adapted to create scaled-down bioreactors based on microfluidics — glass-and-polymer-based devices in which tiny pumps, valves and channels direct liquids ...

today Nature.com - MEMS technology

ULVAC Announces World's First, Low Temperature PZT Sputtering Technology

The increasing demand and the key element to enable this functionality, is the piezoelectric MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) device, using a piezoelectric thin film material called PZT (lead zirconate titanate, Pb(Zr,Ti)O3). Examples of ...

today ACN Newswire (press release) - MEMS technology

Ultrafast lasers for consumer electronics

Ultrafast lasers are an essential part of many advanced micromachining processes, and they also play a significant role in quality control and metrology. Rudolph Technologies (Flanders, NJ; www.rudolphtech.com) recently introduced a new industrial tool ...

yesterday Industrial Laser Solutions Magazine - MEMS technology

Processing Paradigms That Accelerate Computer Simulations

And their potential to excel at dynamical problems too challenging for today's digital processors may today be bolstered by other recent breakthroughs, including advances in microelectromechanical systems, optical engineering, microfluidics ...

yesterday Space Daily - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Scottish partnership to develop photonics techniques to fight disease

The patents cover microfluidics, particle fractionation and sorting, optical tweezing, cell poration, imaging and Raman spectroscopic analysis techniques. Professor Kishan Dholakia at the University of St Andrews commented, “One key area we'll be ...

today Optics.org - MEMS business

Optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discretes growth accelerates

On the strength of optoelectronics and sensor products—including CMOS image sensors, high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and devices built with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology—total O-S-D sales have outpaced the ...

today ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

New nanoscale device shines light on future of optical technologies

Researchers from the University of Central Florida and the University of Texas El Paso have designed a new technique for manipulating light which they hope will help to further develop the next generation of supercomputers. The new method uses a tiny ...

yesterday The Stack - Nanotechnology

UW scientists build a nanolaser using a single atomic sheet

University of Washington scientists have built a new nanometer-sized laser -- using the thinnest semiconductor available today -- that is energy efficient, easy to build and compatible with existing electronics.

yesterday Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology

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IEEE ISISS 2015 2015-03-23 - 2015-03-26 Hapuna Beach, Hawaii 2nd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Intertial Sensors and Systems
NANOSMAT-Asia 2015 Conference 2015-03-24 - 2015-03-27 Kayseri, Turkey The 2nd International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials
Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators 2015-03-26 Webinar: 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT Join CMU professor Gian Piazza in a thought-provoking look at all the benefits piezo MEMS bring to the table
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
MEMS Technical Congress 2015 2015-05-06 - 2015-05-07 Hilton Boston Back Bay Co-creating the MEMS and Sensors Ecosystem for the Next Decade
International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2015) 2015-05-17 - 2015-05-22 Phoenix Arizona The Epicenter of RF/Microwave
Automotive Sensors and Electronics Expo 2015 2015-05-20 Detroit, MIchigan Annual Conference and Exhibition
MEMS Technology Symposium 2015-05-20 San Jose, CA Enabling the Internet of Things
Internet of Things Technology Symposium 2015-05-21 San Jose, CA Analytics. Applications. Hardware. Software.
Design Automation Conference (52nd DAC) 2015-06-07 - 2015-06-11 San Francisco, CA The premier conference for design and automation of electronic systems
Sensors Expo & Conference 2015-06-09 - 2015-06-11 Long Beach Convention Center, CA Sensing Technologies Driving Tomorrow's Solutions
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
Workshop on Enabling Future Health Care 2015-08-23 - 2015-08-26 Napa, California the Role of Micro and Nano Technologies
MIG Conference Asia 2015 2015-09-09 - 2015-09-10 Shanghai, China Stay tuned for more details!
European MEMS Summit 2015 2015-09-17 - 2015-09-18 Milan, Italy European MEMS Summit will focus on MEMS technologies, manufacturing and business challenges
Swiss ePrint 2015, 3rd edition 2015-10-01 - 2015-10-02 Neuchatel, Switzerland The Swiss Conference on Printed Electronics and Functional Materials
MEMS Executive Congress US 2015 2015-11-04 - 2015-11-06 Napa, CA Stay tuned for more details!