MEMS technology

Scientists are to use Laser Beams in controlling and guiding Lightings

At present, electric arcs are used in various applications such combustion engines, pollution control applications, lighting, machining and micromachining. The current research have the probability of multiplying potential applications and can ...

yesterday Benchmark Reporter - MEMS technology

Airing Is A Maskless, Hoseless Micro-CPAP Dream Gadget For People With ...

It uses micro-fluidic pumps drawn from work in the Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) design area. The commonly accepted understanding of obstructive sleep apnea is that the soft tissue in an individual's throat collapses, typically at the end of ...

2015-06-22 Tech Times - MEMS technology

New Device Can Help Identify Targets for Cancer Medication

"The device can identify new targets for cancer medications," said the team from University of Toronto that developed it. To look into the responses of different cells, the researchers harnessed the emerging power of digital microfluidics. The ...

today NDTV - MEMS technology

Eavesdropping on the body

To look into the responses of different cells, the U of T team harnessed the emerging power of digital microfluidics, which involves shuttling tiny drops of water around on a series of small electrodes that looks like a miniature checkerboard ...

yesterday R & D Magazine - MEMS technology

MEMS Display Harnesses Ambient Light to Create Color Images

Based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), the display consists of a thin absorbing material that lets most of the light pass through to a second mirror layer. Interference between the incident and reflected light produces the desired output colors.

2015-06-23 Photonics.com - MEMS technology

Graphene heat-transfer riddle unraveled

... between grains of graphene affects heat conductivity in thin films of the miracle substance - bringing developers a step closer to being able to engineer films at a scale useful for cooling microelectronic devices and hundreds of other nano-tech ...

2015-06-22 Space Daily - MEMS technology

X-FAB Announces First 180-Nanometer Cost-Efficient SOI Foundry Technology ...

X-FAB's analog-digital integrated circuits (mixed-signal ICs), sensors and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are manufactured at five production facilities in Germany, Malaysia and the U.S. X-FAB employs 2,500 people worldwide. For more ...

today Business Wire (press release) - MEMS technology

Can heat be controlled as waves?

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials—which convert waste heat to electricity—and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how ...

2015-06-23 Phys.Org - MEMS technology

SiTime's Customizable, Programmed MEMS Oscillators Available from Digi-Key ...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Electronics, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, announced today that SiTime's industry-leading, MEMS oscillators ...

today Business Wire (press release) - MEMS technology

New process forms 3-D shapes from flat sheets of graphene

“We also expect that our new 3-D integration approach will facilitate advanced classes of hybrid devices between microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and 2-D materials for sensing and actuation.” Graphene, a 2-D honeycomb lattice of sp2-bonded ...

2015-06-23 R & D Magazine - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Fairchild launches MEMS product line | Solid State ...

Fairchild, a supplier of high-performance semiconductor solutions, today launched the FIS1100 6-axis MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), the company's first MEMS product stemming from its strategic investments in ...

sdavis 2015-06-22 - MEMS business

First Woman to Lead a National Security Lab Selected to Head Sandia

... working in thermal and fluid sciences, solar energy research and nuclear weapon component research and development. During her career, she also has done research in nanoscience, hydrogen storage, mechanical-component design and microfluidics.

today Livermore Independent - MEMS business

Microchip That Mimics Human Organs Wins Design Award; May End Animal ...

Combining microfabrication techniques with modern tissue engineering, lung-on-a-chip offers a new in vitro approach to drug screening by mimicking the complicated mechanical and biochemical behaviors of a human lung. (Photo : Wyss Institute/Harvard ...

yesterday Yibada (English Edition) - MEMS business

Mobile Carriers Set to Develop Tech for Hologram Market Estimated 100 Trillion ...

IMEC, a research center headquartered in Belgium, is gearing up to unveil 500 nm pixel pitch stationary images based on nanoscale Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). Sony is providing a combined solution encompassing screens, servers, and ...

2015-06-23 BusinessKorea - MEMS business

MEMS applications take the stage in the first edition of the European MEMS ...

Based on a need expressed by MEMS industry actors and with their strong support, SEMI has chosen to transform its MEMS Networking Tech Seminar and the MEMS Industry Forum of SEMICON Europa into a much larger, combined conference/exhibition ...

2015-06-22 ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Atom-Thin Light Bulb Made With Graphene

This is primarily because light bulb filaments must be extremely hot—thousands of degrees Celsius—in order to glow in the visible range and micro-scale metal wires cannot withstand such temperatures. In addition, heat transfer from the hot filament ...

2015-06-23 Asian Scientist Magazine - Nanotechnology

Lasers Create Nanoscale Geometric Grids

Center for Functional Nanomaterials collaborators (left to right) Atikur Rahman, Kevin Yager, and Pawel Majewski examining the precise, custom-designed nanoscale grids. Down at the nanoscale, where objects span just billionths of a meter, the size and ...

yesterday Controlled Environments Magazine - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology could lead to revolution in drug development

Monoclonal antibody research skyrocketed in the 1980s. By the next decade, they hit the market and today, some of the drugs with the highest revenue are the “mabs” – Humira, Remicade, Rituxan, Avastin and Herceptin. The market will work the same way ...

2015-06-22 Genetic Literacy Project - Nanotechnology

Scientists use nanotechnology to grow living E.coli bacteria into very ...

For the first time, scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University have found a way to use nanotechnology to grow living E.coli bacteria into very different shapes: squares, triangles, circles, and even as letters spelling out ...

2015-06-22 Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

NNCO Launches Workshop Report and Web Portal to Support Nanotechnology ...

The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) is pleased to announce the launch of a workshop report and a web portal, efforts coordinated through and in support of the Nanotechnology Signature Initiative 'Nanotechnology for Sensors and ...

2015-06-22 AZoNano.com - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Event Calendar

MEMS, Sensor and Semiconductor Workshop 2015-07-15 Room C2 (Golden Gate level), San Francisco Marriott Marquis Creating solutions to address common challenges facing the MEMS, Sensor and Semiconductor Industries in the next decade
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!
NMDC 2015 2015-09-13 - 2015-09-16 Anchorage, Alaska 10th IEEE- Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference
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