MEMS technology

Researchers Develop Hollow Microprobe Array to Achieve Flexibility in Single ...

"We fabricated an array of hollow microprobes with designed diameters, heights, and numbers from a silicon substrate using microfabrication techniques. Single cells were trapped on the tips of the probes using a suction flow. The cells were then ...

today AZoNano.com - MEMS technology

Printing silicon on paper offers benefits for miro-electronics

In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find a suitable replacement for brittle silicon-based electronics. To this end, a wealth of recent research into fully flexible electronic ...

2015-04-24 Optics.org - MEMS technology

ASU engineer works to transform ordinary metals into smart materials

Rajagopalan has access to the electron microscopes at ASU's LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science and also to labs designed for the fabrication of advanced micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) systems and devices necessary for his work. “The ...

2015-04-23 Arizona State University - MEMS technology

Fast and accurate 3-D imaging technique to track optically-trapped particles

Optical tweezers have been used as an invaluable tool for exerting micro-scale force on microscopic particles and manipulating three-dimensional (3-D) positions of particles. Optical tweezers employ a tightly-focused laser whose beam diameter is ...

2015-04-25 Science Daily - MEMS technology

Optical Diffraction Tomography Tracks Optically Trapped Particles In 3D

Applying micro-scale force on microscopic particles and manipulating three-dimensional locations of particles has been acheived, using optical tweezers as a tool. Optical tweezers use a tightly-focused laser whose beam diameter is smaller than one ...

2015-04-24 Tech Fragments - MEMS technology

MEMS Seeks its Moore's Law

Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) are microscale devices that use silicon wafer-based manufacturing processes similar to those used in integrated circuit manufacture. Unlike classic ICs, which only operate in the electrical domain, MEMS devices ...

2015-04-24 EE Times - MEMS technology

Practical Tips for Specifying Sensors

Advances in micromachining and other techniques are generating microstructures that help create more complex sensors with expanded abilities. Processes that foster these complexities and abilities, yet still enable sensors to be mass-produced and ...

2015-04-24 Machine Design - MEMS technology

How the data revolution could transform the way people live with diabetes

Diabetics had to painstakingly measure the sugar levels in their urine until the early 1980s, when the first glucose monitors were introduced for home use. ("My first One Touch meter was almost the size of a lunch box," writes internet user coravh, who ...

2015-04-22 Washington Post (blog) - MEMS technology

Simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids

The researchers say their simplified model may be geared toward optimizing a novel class of microfabrication techniques for manufacturing extremely small, tailorable textured fibers. "We now have a very powerful tool we can use to get to the core of ...

yesterday Science Daily - MEMS technology

Taking quantum sensing to a new level

"This marks the first time quantum states have been applied to practical micro-electro-mechanical-systems, or MEMS, devices that are ubiquitous," said Lawrie, citing as examples sensors to measure temperature, pressure, inertial forces, chemicals ...

yesterday Science Daily - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Bosch: Rising of the first MEMS titan

Yole Développement's yearly analysis of “Top100 MEMS Players”, shows the clear emergence of what could be a future “MEMS titan”: Robert Bosch (Bosch). Driven by MEMS for smartphone sales – including pressure sensors -, Bosch's MEMS revenue ...

2015-04-23 evertiq.com - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Enter the graphene era

Using the sticky-tape method they fixed multi-layer graphene sheets 10 to 100 nanometres thick across a tiny metal frame to make a membrane, a bit like a micro-scale drumskin. They then fired micro-scale silica bullets into it. The team used high-speed ...

yesterday Cosmos - Nanotechnology

Flat Silicon Channels Hinder Heat Conduction

The chemical nature of surfaces, therefore, emerges as a new key parameter for improving the performance of Si-based electronic and thermoelectric nanodevices, as well as of that of nanomechanical resonators (NEMS). This work opens new possibilities ...

2015-04-23 I-Connect007 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Silver Clusters Have Unique Fluorescent Properties

The group works with the precious metal to create nanoscale silver clusters with unique fluorescent properties. These properties are important for a variety of sensing applications including biomedical imaging. The team's latest research is published ...

2015-04-24 Controlled Environments Magazine - Nanotechnology

Analysing Lithiation and Delithiation Processes in Batteries at the Nanoscale ...

One basic electrochemical process in lithium ion batteries, the lithiation and delithiation (discharging and charging) of battery materials has until now never been observed at the nanoscale. Researchers believed that during discharge, the current from ...

2015-04-24 AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology enables glass-free 3D holograms

Nanotechnology enables glass-free 3D holograms. (Nanowerk News) Moving holograms like those used in 3D science fiction movies such as Avatar and Elysium have to date only been seen in their full glory by viewers wearing special glasses. 3D hologram

2015-04-23 Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Scientists use nanoscale building blocks and DNA “glue” to shape 3-D ...

Controlling the self-assembly of nanoparticles into superlattices is an important approach to build functional materials. The Brookhaven team used nanosized building blocks—cubes or octahedrons—decorated with DNA tethers to coordinate the assembly of ...

2015-04-23 R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology

New VR Tech Lets You Explore Worlds at the Nanoscale

Nanotechnology and virtual reality were two of the most overhyped technologies of the 1980s and '90s. But neither really lived up to our expectations. Thanks to new headsets like the Oculus Rift, however, virtual reality is finally becoming an actual ...

2015-04-24 Wired - Nanotechnology

Researchers Create First Liquid Nanoscale Laser

A group of scientists from Northwestern University and Duke University has found a way to manufacture a liquid nanoscopic laser whose emission properties can be modulated in real time. This image shows a nano-lasing device consisting of gold ...

today Sci-News.com - Nanotechnology

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 - 2015-05-21 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