MEMS technology

Silicon mirrors resist laser heat to guide beams in high-value machining

The microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirrors are the result of a project involving the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ISIT in Itzehoe and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden. “If this technology is ...

yesterday The Engineer - MEMS technology

Sensors 2015: Ultrasonic transducers as MEMS array

CMUTs also offer the possibility of monolithic integration with CMOS backplanes, as they are fabricated using micromachining techniques. The Fraunhofer IPMS will showcase an example of a CMUT-based application demonstrating particle detection within a ...

yesterday Novus Light Technologies Today - MEMS technology

IoT Needs New MEMS Approaches

New applications for existing MEMS devices are driving healthy 12% annual growth in the MEMS sector, but the difficulty of ramping disruptive new products to volume production may slow down growth unless the sector figures out how to smooth the ...

yesterday EE Times - MEMS technology

Making Liquids Stay Right Where You Want Them

Making Liquids Stay Right Where You Want Them. Additives and micro-contact printing could be used to reduce friction even in microelectromechanical systems, study says. Jonathan Leong | June 4, 2015 | In the Lab. AsianScientist (Jun. 4, 2015) - Every ...

yesterday Asian Scientist Magazine - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Chinese semiconductor industry not keeping up with demand

Relaxations in the Wassanar Agreement for plasma etch tools, which limited exports of high-end equipment into China, will propel imports of equipment into China, impacting on domestic suppliers like Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment.

today Ferret - MEMS business

Transducers 2015: MEMS Industry Group to Hold its First Concurrent ...

MEMS Industry Group^® (MIG), the trade association advancing micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and sensors across global markets, will hold its first concurrent conference session at Transducers 2015 on June 23, 2015. "Transducers is recognized ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - MEMS business

ITRI and Orbotech to co-operate on enabling manufacturing processes for smart ...

The Company is a leading provider of yield enhancement and production solutions for electronics reading, writing and connecting, used by manufacturers of printed circuit boards, flat panel displays, advanced packaging, micro-electro-mechanical systems ...

today MarketWatch - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Visualising nanoscale changes in the electronic properties of graphene

The study, which was conducted in collaboration with the University of Surrey, UK, and the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Poland, shows for the first time the nanoscale changes of graphene's electronic and structural properties upon ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanomechanics: Rocking at the nanoscale

Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, Hubert Krenner and co-workers — who are based at the University of Augsburg, the Nanosystems Initiative Munich, the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at Dresden, the Sorbonne University, the University of Linz ...

yesterday Nature.com - Nanotechnology

Engineers show how 'perfect' materials begin to fail at the nanoscale

“Nanotechnology is not just about making things smaller,” Chen said, “it's also about different properties that arise in materials at the nanoscale.” “When you make these really small structures,” Gianola said, “they're often grown from the bottom up ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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
MicroTAS 2015 2015-10-25 - 2015-10-29 HICO, Gyeongju, Korea The 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
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
SPIE Photonics West 2016 2016-02-13 - 2016-02-18 Moscone Center San Francisco, California, USA Photonics West, the #1 laser, photonics, biomedical optics conference