MEMS technology

Shape-shifting gels get smarter

Such shape-shifting materials could find applications in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and NEMS devices. They could also create 'self-healing' coatings that can repair themselves after impact or corrosion damage or in energy technology to build ...

2015-08-15 Phys.Org - MEMS technology

Innovative brain probe allows control of neurons

The brain probe they developed combines the ability to deliver drugs with deep brain stimulation (DBS) via a micro-scale light-emitting probe. DBS is a method of stimulating brain cells with either an electrical or light pulse. What makes this so ...

2015-08-15 The Munich Eye - MEMS technology

New Microfluidic Blood-draw Device Could Replace Needle Sticks and ...

In a process known as “capillary action,” HemoLink leverages microfluidics to create a slight vacuum that pulls blood from capillaries though tiny channels in the skin into a small tube, noted a Gizmag report. The device collects 0.15 cubic centimeters ...

2015-08-17 DARKDaily.com - Laboratory News - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Top 10 Emerging Technologies That Could Transform Our Future

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or MEMS, is a technology that in its most general form can be defined as miniaturised mechanical and electro-mechanical elements (i.e., devices and structures) that are made using the techniques of micro-fabrication.

yesterday WT VOX - MEMS business

DARPA Seeks New CRAFT To Develop Integrated Circuits for Future UAVs, Radars

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has initiated a new program- Circuit Realization at Faster Timescales (CRAFT) to develop ultra-low power consuming integrated circuits for future military applications. The CRAFT program aims ...

today Defenseworld.net - MEMS business

Challenges for MEMS, sensors, and semiconductors | Solid ...

Leading industry experts participated in the joint SEMI-MEMS Industry Group (MIG) workshop during SEMICON West 2015 to discuss industry challenges – and potential solutions and collaborative approaches – in the MEMS, ...

sdavis 2015-08-15 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Study explores nanoscale structure of thin films

The world's newest and brightest synchrotron light source—the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory—has produced one of the first publications resulting from work done during ...

2015-08-16 Printed Electronics World - Nanotechnology

Liver-on-Chip Device with Nanotechnology-Based Optoelectronic Sensors Mimicks ...

Yaakov Nahmias, the study's lead author and Director of the Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering at the Hebrew University. While other groups showed similar results, the breakthrough came when the groups added nanotechnology-based sensors to ...

2015-08-17 AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Engineers identify how to keep surfaces dry underwater: Research team is first ...

The research team is the first to identify the ideal "roughness" needed in the texture of a surface to keep it dry for a long period of time when submerged in water. The valleys in the surface roughness typically need to be less than one micron in ...

yesterday Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology

Berkeley Lab' Campanile probe reveals nanoscale optoelectronic heterogeneity ...

"The Campanile probe's remarkable resolution enabled us to identify significant nanoscale optoelectronic heterogeneity in the interior regions of monolayer crystals of molybdenum disulfide, and an unexpected, about 300nm-wide, energetically disordered ...

2015-08-17 Semiconductor Today - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

SUSS MicroTec: New Competence-Center for Nanoimprint in North America

SCIL is applied in diverse fields, ranging from HB LEDs, Photovoltaics, MEMS, NEMS and mass production of optical gratings for gas sensing and telecommunications. The Singh Center for Nanotechnology will implement SCIL for use in plasmonic devices, ...

yesterday Business Wire (press release) - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Event Calendar

Workshop on Enabling Future Health Care 2015-08-23 - 2015-08-26 Napa, California the Role of Micro and Nano Technologies
MEMS Industry Group Conference Asia 2015 2015-09-08 - 2015-09-11 Shanghai, China Navigating challenges and opportunities for MEMS and sensors at the front and back ends of the supply chain.
NMDC 2015 2015-09-13 - 2015-09-16 Anchorage, Alaska 10th IEEE- Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference
WESTEC 2015 2015-09-15 - 2015-09-17 Los Angeles, CA WESTEC 2015 Event to Address Key Manufacturing Issues and Unveil Technological Breakthroughs
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 MEMS and Sensors: Enabling the Connection to the Physical World
Wearable Sensors and Electronics 2015 2015-11-16 - 2015-11-17 Santa Clara, CA. Bringing Together the Wearable Ecosystem
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 Creating a TSensors-Based Abundant Future
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
MEMS Technical Congress Europe 2016 2016-03-07 - 2016-03-08 Munich, Germany Delivering Technical Solutions, Together.