MEMS technology

Scientists tune X-rays with tiny mirrors

Scientists at Argonne have created a new way of manipulating high-intensity X-rays, which will allow researchers to select extremely brief but precise X-ray bursts for their experiments. This schematic of their microelectromechanical device …more. The ...

yesterday Phys.Org - MEMS technology

Trimble's New OEM Module Combines GNSS with MEMS Inertial

Trimble has introduced the Trimble BD935-INS module that features precision GNSS with an integrated 3-D Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) inertial sensor package. As part of Trimble's GNSS OEM portfolio, the new compact module augments ...

today GPS World magazine - MEMS technology

New Photon Correlation Spectroscopy-Based Method for Directly Measuring ...

However, this method can only be used to calibrate a limited number of microphones of specific types and dimensions, and cannot be applied to new types of device such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The unit of sound pressure, the pascal, ...

yesterday AZoOptics.com (press release) - MEMS technology

Packaging development could enable increased qubit densities

The team's approach uses new microfabrication techniques that allow more electrodes to fit onto the chip, while preserving the laser access needed. The team's design borrows ideas from the BGA package, where the density of electrical connection is ...

yesterday New Electronics - MEMS technology

Quantum computers one step closer thanks to BGA chip design

GTRI and Honeywell scientists have discovered that a ball grid array (BGA) microfabrication can improve the electrode and thus qubit density of a chip. The new technique was "trapping ions from the very first day," of development. The team also ...

today HEXUS - MEMS technology

Improving Transistors That Drive Flexible Electronics

... Amherst, with their doctoral student Marcos Reyes-Martinez, now a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton, report results of their recent investigation of how micro-scale wrinkling affects electrical performance in carbon-based, single-crystal ...

yesterday Newswise (press release) - MEMS technology

Cheap chips let scientists eavesdrop on chatting neurons

The new system directs neuronal growth using microfluidics — small channels and wells etched into thin wafers of polymer and glass. Light stimulates neurons in the wells and fluorescent microscopes are used to detect bursts of activity as groups of ...

today SFARI News - MEMS technology

Nanotechnology

Computer science: Nanoscale connections for brain-like circuits

Tiny circuit elements called memristors have been used as connections in an artificial neural network – enabling the system to learn to recognize letters of the alphabet from imperfect images. See Letter p.61 ...

today Nature.com - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology used to make watch case

It's one thing to take a Swiss watch to Switzerland, quite another to impress the locals. Australian company Bausele recently did just that, thanks to some clever thinking at Flinders University in South Australia.

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

Winner announced for NNI's first 'EnvisioNano' nanotechnology image contest

(Nanowerk News) The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) has announced the winner of the first EnvisioNano nanotechnology image contest for students. Kyle Nowlin from the University of North Carolina Greensboro Joint School of ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Event Calendar

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
National SBIR/STTR Conference 2015-06-15 - 2015-06-17 Washington, DC National Innovation Summit
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