MEMS technology

You can actually touch these 3D holograms

The laser pulses then "excite" matter to create dots, called "voxels", which can then be used to draw 3D holograms. Femtosecond lasers were first pioneered by MIT and are typically used in micromachining and carrying out laser eye surgery. But because ...

2015-07-03 Wired.co.uk - MEMS technology

Microsculptures Nano Art - The World's Smallest Works of Art

Some sculptures are built on a grandiose scale, impressing the observer with their sheer size. These are not those sculptures. These 10 feats of technical skill and nanotechnology pack incredibly detailed features into forms ...

2015-07-03 - MEMS technology

Bosch Finds Graphene Magnetic Sensor 100x More Sensitive than Silicon

Talking at Graphene Week 2015, Robert Roelver a researcher at Bosch, which claims to be the world's number one supplier of microelectromechanical sensors, with 1bn euros in sales,said that top-down approaches to graphene device fabrication such as ...

today EE Times - MEMS technology

Demystifying M2M, IoT and IoE

IoT has evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems and the Internet. Ok, so is IoT completely different from M2M? Yes and No, the only major difference between M2M and IoT was the network it used for ...

yesterday Pulse - MEMS technology

3-D Fingerprint Scanner Beats Apple's

Block diagram show the various layers, vias and other structures that make the 3D microelectromechanical system (MEMS) fingerprint detector to its underlying complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

2015-07-03 EE Times - MEMS technology

MEMS business

X-FAB announces 180nm SOI foundry technology for automotive applications

X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany - an analog/mixed-signal and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry - has announced what it claims is the first cost-efficient 180nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for automotive and ...

today Semiconductor Today - MEMS business

Grab Your Shades — The Laser Market Has a Bright Future

First, lasers are enabling new manufacturing processes such as micromachining materials or features not previously possible. Second, lasers are replacing existing non-laser processes by providing a significant benefit, e.g., reduced end-product cost by ...

today Photonics.com - MEMS business

MEMS Industry Group Tackles Common Challenges of MEMS, Sensor ...

MIG teams with SEMI, the global industry association serving the nano- and microelectronic manufacturing supply chains, in hosting the workshop — which culminates in small-group break-out sessions facilitated by industry experts. “The MEMS, sensor and ...

today Satellite PR News (press release) - MEMS business

What's holding back wearable tech?

They are technically called MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems. We are most familiar with them in the forms of the accelerometers and gyroscopes that help smartphones and tablets keep track of motion. This is how we play games on our smartphones ...

2015-07-03 WWNO - MEMS business

Microfluidics market set to see new technique allow for the tracking of rapid ...

Biomedical engineers from the University of Toronto have, with help from the microfluidics market, created a new solution that has the ability to both accurately and swiftly track chemical gunplay both within and between cells. Digital microfluidic ...

today Companiesandmarkets.com - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Research Team Developing Bioactive Gel to Treat Knee Injuries

Salem has expertise on microfabrication techniques for creating novel drug and gene delivery devices, to test two technologies- nano-size plasmids carrying genetic instructions for the growth factor or microspheres loaded with the substance—to ...

2015-07-04 Doctor Tipster - Nanotechnology

Nanofluidics: Phonon modes for faster flow

Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, François Grey, Quanshui Zheng and co-workers at institutes in China, the UK, Israel, Switzerland and Australia now report MD simulations of water transport in carbon nanotubes for flow velocities down to centimetres ...

today Nature.com - Nanotechnology

Plasmon wakes can be controlled, claims Harvard team

Nano-optics is a major part of the future of nanotechnology and this research furthers our ability to control and harness the power of light on the nanoscale." Surface plasmons are confined to the surface of a metal. In order to create wakes through ...

today New Electronics - Nanotechnology

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
T-Sensors Summit 2015-12-09 - 2015-12-10 Celebration, FL
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