MEMS technology

Blood Tests That Don't Hurt? Tasso Inc. Receives $3 Million To Advance ...

Casavant was studying microfluidics — the study of cell biology — at UW-Madison when he and his two co-founders, Erwin Berthier and Ben Moga, realized they wanted to start a company, not necessarily what kind of company. He and his fellow classmates ...

today Medical Daily - MEMS technology

Fifty years of Moore's Law made possible by semiconductor equipment and ...

SEMI, the global industry association serving the nano- and micro-electronic manufacturing supply chains, today recognizes the enabling contributions made by the over 1,900 SEMI Member companies in developing semiconductor equipment and materials ...

yesterday ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS technology

Smartphones used as sensors for earthquake early warnings

A new system based on these microelectromechanical systems might detect earthquakes as low as magnitude 5. Caltech's Community Seismic Network Project is currently developing an EEW system based on accelerometers. Seismologists from the National ...

2015-04-13 ZME Science - MEMS technology

Validating MEMS and other sensors

Sensors find places in almost every consumer, industrial, and automotive product these days. For example, mobile devices have accelerometers, ambient light sensors, gyroscopes, etc., and automobiles have airbag sensors, tire pressure monitors, ...

yesterday EDN.com - MEMS technology

DARPA Wants to Make the Internet of Things Power Efficient

DARPA is working on technology that will lower the energy costs for the Internet of Things to almost nothing while still keeping their sensors on a hair-trigger. The Near Zero Power RF and Sensor Operations program, nicknamed N-ZERO, would basically ...

yesterday DC Inno - MEMS technology

The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers

What's in the thimble is the culmination of a decade's worth of research into microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) — the technology of very tiny computers. MEMS are also called “smart dust,” and Dutta's dust is the smallest known to humankind. Dutta ...

today Backchannel - MEMS technology

Water Makes Even Smaller Wires Possible

“You can use the standard tools a microfabrication line already has to make features that are smaller than 10 nanometers.” The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative ...

today The Bottom Line - MEMS technology

Lab-on-a-chip device detects cryptosporidium in as little as 10 minutes

Cheng's research has involved medical protozoa and opportunistic HIV infections, and Sui's lab focuses on microfluidics. This week in the journal Biomicrofluidics, from AIP Publishing, they describe how they developed and tested the new microfluidic ...

yesterday Phys.Org - MEMS technology

MEMS business

InvenSense Upgraded On Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi Sales INVN

InvenSense makes MEMS, or micro-electro-mechanical systems, used in many smartphones, tablets and portable video gaming devices that, among other things, keep a display steady even when a device is turned and moved. So, the display stays horizontal ...

yesterday Investor's Business Daily - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Non-Invasive Optical Technique Based on Light Interference Measures ...

Scholars, researchers and scientists from different disciplines including pharmaceutical industry, mechanical engineering or biology employ nanoscale compounds in their projects. However, these compounds could be handled only with high precision tools ...

yesterday AZoOptics.com (press release) - Nanotechnology

Using Nanotechnology to Build a Space Elevator

Advances in research into nanotechnology and carbon nanotube materials are now presenting us with the opportunity to create a cable that could actually handle the forces that would be exerted on it. Researchers are currently exploring the idea of using ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Breath Test May Identify Early Gastric Cancer

The new test uses nanotechnology that analyzes a set of atoms called nanoarrays. In this case, the array includes atoms from breath samples and the computer looks for the amount of specific compounds that are linked to gastric cancer. Nanoarray ...

today Cancer Therapy Advisor - Nanotechnology

Nature-inspired nanotechnology mesh captures oil but lets water through

Nature-inspired nanotechnology mesh captures oil but lets water through. (Nanowerk News) The unassuming piece of stainless steel mesh in a lab at The Ohio State University doesn't look like a very big deal, but it could make a big difference for future ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

How nanotechnologies will disrupt the electrical grid

Acceleration is certainly evident in nanotechnology R&D. Back in December, I wrote two blogs that updated my 2020 predictions first published in January 2014. One key takeaway: nanotechnology discoveries are occurring on almost a weekly basis.

today GreenBiz - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Event Calendar

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.
40th Annual NIST Time and Frequency Seminar 2015-06-02 - 2015-06-05 Boulder, CO
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!
PowerMEMS 2015 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-04 Boston, MA The 15th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications